BMWi-Portal "Strom-Forschung.de" - Portrait of Prof. Joachim Oppelt

The targeted and safe drilling of boreholes down to a depth of several thousand metres using appropriately long drilling systems continues to be a challenge.

As part of the project OBS - Optimisation of Drilling Progress for Deep Geothermal Drilling at the Drilling Simulator Celle of Clausthal University of Technology, the project partners under the leadership of Prof. Joachim Oppelt are for the first time systematically investigating and analysing the vibration behaviour of drill string components.

You can read the full portrait here.