Baker Hughes developing higher-temp drilling equipment

In Texas, oil drilling equipment maker Baker Hughes Inc. – as reported by the Wall Street Journal on-line – is developing drills and measurement equipment that will work at nearly 600 degrees F. The equipment is intended to service the geothermal industry. The report says that a geothermal well in northern Japan in the mid 1990s topped 930 degrees F, whereas a typical oil well rarely exceeds 400 degrees F.