The NADET Institute
The National Advanced Drilling and Excavation Technologies Program
Overview
In 1995, the MIT Energy Laboratory and industrial, academic, and government collaborators established the National Advanced Drilling and Excavation Technologies (NADET) Program to facilitate and fund research, development, and demonstration of advanced technologies for industries that depend on drilling and excavation. Drilling and excavation are critical to key activities such as producing oil and gas, developing geothermal energy resources, mining, cleaning up hazardous waste sites, building modern mass-transit systems, creating underground utility services, and renewing infrastructures. These activities are expanding rapidly, creating an urgent need for a new generation of advanced, environmentally sound drilling and excavation technologies.
The NADET Program identifies and implements research objectives that range from developing new concepts for cutting and removing rock to integrating the design of current and advanced drilling and excavation systems to improve performance, lower costs, and reduce environmental impacts. The program is led by the NADET Institute, which is located at MIT and directed by Professor Carl Peterson. The NADET Institute itself does not perform research but--with guidance from industrial and governmental advisory boards--it plans, facilitates, monitors, and coordinates the work of others. The program is explicitly intended to identify and focus on selected technologies that will benefit a range of industries and to involve a variety of researchers in industry, academia, and government. By involving potential industrial users and by focusing on fully integrated, environmentally responsible designs, the program should yield practical systems that will be readily adopted by industry.
Calendar of Upcoming Events
Contents
- About NADET
- NADET at a Glance
- Message from the Office of Geothermal Technologies, U.S. Department of Energy
- Drilling RD&D Program
- Advanced Drilling Technologies Research Initiatives
- Workshop Briefs
- Advanced Drilling and Excavation Technologies: The Role of Government
- NADET Institute Announces Membership Plan
- NADET Institute to Catalogue Drilling Activities
- Workshop on Environmental Drilling and Excavation
- NADET Institute Reconvenes Government Group