Svartá field · live output 118,4 MW
64.04° N — 21.40° W

Heat from five kilometres down

Since 1998214 wells drilled690 MW installed
Our services
Depth profile
S.01About us

Hvera is a geothermal engineering company. We find heat underground, drill down to it and turn it into power and warm homes, from Reykjanes to the Rift Valley.

214Wells drilled
5,1kmDeepest well
690MWInstalled capacity
340°CPeak reservoir
11Countries
1,2MPeople heated

Founded in Reykjavík in 1998, we run our own rigs, test crews and plant teams. One contract covers the whole path from survey to steady output, so nothing is lost between handovers.

About us
S.02Services

Six disciplines, one contract. From the first survey to steady output.

All services
01
Exploration

Magnetotelluric surveys, gas geochemistry and slim holes that map a reservoir before the first rig arrives.

02
Deep drilling

Directional wells to five kilometres with in-house rigs rated for 400 °C and high-pressure steam.

03
Well testing

Flow, injection and tracer tests that size every well and set its long-term output.

04
Plant EPC

Flash and binary plants from 5 to 120 MW, designed, built and commissioned by one team.

05
District heating

Exchangers, pipelines and pumping stations that carry spent brine heat into cities.

06
Operations

Remote monitoring, scaling control and workovers that keep plants above 95% availability.

S.03Depth profile

Five layers between the surface and the heat.

Lava cover0–300 m
Clay cap300–900 m
Reservoir900–2 200 m
Production zone2 200–3 500 m
Supercritical3 500–5 100 m
Current depth 0m
10 °Creservoir temperature
01 / 05 — Lava cover

Young basalt flows, cold groundwater and the first casing string. Every well starts here.

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S.04Projects

Forty-one fields in eleven countries.
Six of them, below.

AllPowerHeatExploration
01 Svartá Power Station Iceland Flash plant · 2019 120 MW
02 Olbara Rift Field Kenya Drilling · 2021 18 wells
03 Toba Ridge Binary Indonesia Binary plant · 2022 55 MW
04 Thessaly Heat Grid Greece District heating · 2024 140 MWth
05 Atacama Deep Chile Exploration · 2025 3 slim holes
06 Reykjanes Deep II Iceland Supercritical well · 2026 5 100 m
Featured case · 01Svartá, North Iceland · 2016–2019

Svartá Power Station

Capacity120 MW
Wells24
Availability97,6%
Read the case
Reinjection wells, Reykjanes · 2025
S.05Impact

Steam goes up.
Carbon stays down.

Lifecycle emissions · g CO₂ per kWh
Coal820
Natural gas490
Solar PV41
Hvera field23
100%Brine reinjected into the reservoir
23gCO₂ per kWh over the plant lifecycle
0Lost-time incidents across all rigs in 2025
1,2MPeople kept warm by our heat networks

Every tonne of brine we lift goes back into the reservoir, so pressure holds and the field keeps giving.

2025 report
S.06Careers

Crews who read rock.

Drillers, geologists and plant crews work the same field from survey to start-up. We train on our own rigs and rotate people between continents.

Drilling engineerReykjanes, ISFull time
Reservoir geologistNairobi, KEFull time
Plant operatorSvartá, ISShifts
Mud loggerAtacama, CLRotation
Rig crew · Olbara, Kenya
S.07Contact

Let’s open the ground.

hello@hvera.is
+354 520 4100

Tell us where the heat is, or where you think it might be. A field engineer answers within two working days.

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