FIELAX likes to announce the successful performance of a heat flow measurement in a water depth of more than 5400m. On board the RV Investigator, FIELAX has performed heat flow measurements in the Bight Basin (Offshore South Australia) for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), in cooperation with Chevron. The deepest station measurment was performed in 5432m water depth, a new record for FIELAX and our equipment.
Within the project ModelHeat (funded by 'Europäischer Fonds für regionale Entwicklung') FIELAX developed a three-dimensional model to calculate temperature fields in marine sediments or onshore soil. Given inputs are measured thermal properties and approximated seasonal temperature deviations of the water/air. Read more
In partnership with Marine Sampling Holland and Wiertsema & Partners, we have broadened our portfolio of HeatFlow measurements. The well proven technology of in-situ measurements of thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity, and thermal capacity can now be used onshore at practically unlimited depth. Using the drilling technology of Wiertsema & Partners, the system can be brought down to the desired depth and measure these thermal parameters up to 5m downwards. Read more
Get digital! In the "DigiT" project funded by the 'Europäischer Fonds für regionale Entwicklung' FIELAX and the geo-workgroup from University Bremen developed a method to digitally acquire temperature data from marine sediments. Read more
The 'Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Education superior de Ensenada Baja California' (CICESE) in Mexico has purchased a complete heat flow measuring system from FIELAX. The HeatFlowProbe was dispatched today. The picture shows the strength member on its rigging trolleys during loading in a 40'-container. The HeatFlow probe has an active length of 6m (resulting in a total length of about 7,5m) to penetrate through the seasonally influenced upper sediment layers to determine the pure geothermal heat flow.