Dr. Silviu Livescu is the co-founder and CTO of Bedrock Energy, on a mission to transform the heating and cooling of buildings, using geothermal energy to radically reduce costs for people and the environment. Previously, he was a tenured faculty member of geoenergy science and engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, a pressure pumping chief scientist at Baker Hughes, a research engineer at ExxonMobil, a technical board director for the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), and an SPE distinguished lecturer. Dr. Livescu has extensive product and technology research, development, and deployment experience in petroleum and geothermal drilling and construction, authoring 41 U.S. patents and patent applications and more than 100 papers and articles, including five chapters in the trailblazing “Future of Geothermal in Texas” report, and co-editing Elsevier’s book titled Geothermal Energy Engineering: Technology Transfer with the Oil and Gas Industry.
In the first chapter of Geothermal Energy Engineering published by Elsevier, we explore the origins, historical development, and various types of geothermal systems, along with the…
It was my honor to attend the European Geothermal Congress (#EGC2022) in Berlin, Germany, in October. I had the opportunity to connect with geothermal experts and…
