The construction of wells, for example to extract oil, gas or heat from underground reservoirs requires substantial financial investments, which are mainly related to the involved drilling operations (Tester et al. 2006;Akin and Karpuz 2008;Petty et al. 2009;Lukawski et al. 2014;Diaz et al. 2017). Additionally, the current trend of accessing deeper underground resources poses challenges for the overall project economics, as the costs increase exponentially with well depth (Fitzgerald 2013;Abdo and Haneef 2013;Hu et al. 2013). This is especially unfavourable for enhanced geothermal systems (EGSs)