🔬Breakthroughs & Milestones·01 Sep 2026
Mazama Energy reports 80% faster drilling in phase one of its Athena project at Newberry than its 2025 result
Mazama Energy said the first phase of its Athena Drilling Project at Newberry, Oregon demonstrated an 80% improvement in drilling time compared with its 2025 drilling result. Drilling speed is the dominant cost driver in engineered geothermal systems, so the company frames the result as a turning point for superhot-rock project economics — that economic framing is Mazama's own characterisation and is not independently verified here. The underlying resource claim is separate and previously established: Mazama reported reaching approximately 331 degrees C at Newberry in October 2025. No power generation, offtake agreement or commercial output was announced with this result.
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