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OM300 Direction Drilling Module

OM300 Geothermal Direction Drilling Navigation Tool A prototype directional drilling navigation tool capable of high temperature operation in geothermal drilling with: Accuracies of 0.1 degree Inclination and Tool Face, 0.5 degree Azimuth Environmental Ruggedness typical of existi...

MacGugan, D. Honeywell International, Inc.

Aug 22, 2013
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Project HOTSPOT: Mountain Home Well Borehole Geophysics Database

The Snake River Plain (SRP), Idaho, hosts potential geothermal resources due to elevated groundwater temperatures associated with the thermal anomaly Yellowstone-Snake River hotspot. Project HOTSPOT has coordinated international institutions and organizations to understand subsurf...

Shervais, J. Utah State University

Nov 11, 2012
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Utah FORGE: 2024 Discrete Fracture Network Model Data

The Utah FORGE 2024 Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) Model dataset provides a set of files representing discrete fracture network modeling for the FORGE site near Milford, Utah. The dataset includes four distinct DFN model file sets, each corresponding to different time frames and ...

Finnila, A. and Jones, C. Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah

Sep 08, 2024
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Utah FORGE: Induced Seismicity Mitigation Plan

This is the current induced seismicity mitigation plan (ISMP) for the Utah FORGE project. Information that was collected during Phases 1 and 2 of the Utah FORGE project has been incorporated, as have literature searches and risk assessments. The purpose of this report is to identi...

Utah, U. et al Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah

Dec 30, 2020
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Utah FORGE: Well 16A(78)-32 Simplified Discrete Fracture Network Data

The FORGE team is making these fracture models available to researchers wanting a set of natural fractures in the FORGE reservoir for use in their own modeling work. They have been used to predict stimulation distances during hydraulic stimulation at the open toe section of well 1...

Finnila, A. Golder Associates Inc.

Jun 01, 2021
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Life Cycle Water Consumption and Water Resource Assessment for Utility-Scale Geothermal Systems: An In-Depth Analysis of Historical and Forthcoming EGS Projects

This report is the third in a series of reports sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy Geothermal Technologies Program in which a range of water-related issues surrounding geothermal power production are evaluated. The first report made an initial attempt at quantifying the li...

Schroeder, J. et al Argonne National Laboratory

Aug 31, 2013
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EGS Collab Experiment 2: Earth Model Datasets

The EGS Collab Project performed a series of tests to increase the understanding the response of crystalline rock mass to stimulations and fluid circulation to efficiently implement enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) technologies. The EGS Collab team created two underground testbed...

Neupane, G. et al Idaho National Laboratory

May 29, 2022
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Utah FORGE: Development of Multi-Stage Fracturing System and Wellbore Tractor to Enable Zonal Isolation During Stimulation and EGS Operations in Horizontal Wellbores

This paper discusses the progress on a project funded by the DOE Utah FORGE (Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy) for the development of a subsurface heat exchanger for Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) using unique casing sleeves cemented in place and are used ...

Fleckenstein, W. et al Colorado School of Mines

Oct 05, 2022
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Fluid Geochemistry, Granite Springs Valley, Nevada Play Fairway Analysis

This data set is associated with the Nevada Play Fairway project. Excel file 5-Area Chem contains all the major chemistry for the areas sampled in the project. New analyses are in lines 2-30, while older analyses appear below that. Field Data excel file contains both field notes a...

Faulds, J. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Sep 14, 2017
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Snake River Plain FORGE: Well Data for USGS-142

Well data for the USGS-142 well located in eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho. This data collection includes lithology reports, borehole logs, and photos of rhyolite core samples. This collection of data has been assembled as part of the site characterization data used to develop ...

Twining, B. Idaho National Laboratory

Nov 23, 2015
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Understanding Constraints on Geothermal Sustainability Through Reservoir Characterization at Brady Geothermal Field, Nevada

The vast supply of geothermal energy stored throughout the Earth and the exceedingly long time required to dissipate that energy makes the world's geothermal energy supply nearly limitless. As such, this resource holds the potential to provide a large supply of the world's energy ...

Patterson, J. University of Wisconsin

Jul 11, 2018
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Thermal-Hydrological-Mechanical Modelling of Stockton University Reservoir Cooling System, Fine Scale Stress Test Modelling

Mesh, properties, initial conditions, injection/withdrawal rates for modelling thermal, hydrological, and mechanical effects of fluid injection to and withdrawal from ground for Stockton University reservoir cooling system (aquifer storage cooling system), Galloway, New Jersey, fo...

Smith, J. et al Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Feb 22, 2021
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McGee Mountain Geoprobe Study, Humboldt County, Nevada

Geoprobes were developed by the environmental industry to collect water, gas and soil samples from contaminated sites at shallow depths (10-40 meters), with a minimum of environmental disturbance. A modified Geoprobe was used to collect bottom hole temperatures, and attempt to col...

Tullar, K. Geothermal Technical Partners, Inc.

Jun 19, 2010
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Western USA Assessment of High Value Materials in Geothermal Fluids and Produced Fluids Final Report

This report documents the results of investigations dealing with the concentrations and availabilities of strategic, critical and valuable materials (SCVM) in produced waters from geothermal and hydrocarbon reservoirs (50-250 degrees C) in Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, and Ut...

Simmons, S. Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah

Mar 18, 2019
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Shallow EGS Regional Resource Potential and Map Snake River Plain

SMU Geothermal Lab developed a methodology to estimate shallow (1 km to 4 km) Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) resource potential using an approach that utilizes recent geology and geophysical research along with new well data to improve the thermal conductivity model, mitigate i...

Batir, J. et al Southern Methodist University Huffington Department of Earth Sciences

Oct 30, 2020
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EGS Collab Experiment 1: Common Discrete Fracture Network

This package includes data and models that support hydraulic fracture stimulation and fluid circulation experiments in the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF). A paper by Schwering et al. (2020) describes the deterministic basis for developing a "common" discrete fracture...

Schwering, P. et al Sandia National Laboratories

Sep 18, 2019
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Utah FORGE: Well 16A(78)-32 Stage 1 Pressure Falloff Analysis

This is an analysis of the pressure falloff in stage 1 fracture stimulation of FORGE well 16A(78)-32. The objective of this research is to understand the information content of the well stimulation data of FORGE Well 16A(78)-32. The Stage 1 step-rate test, a variant of the classic...

Kazemi, H. et al Colorado School of Mines

Aug 04, 2022
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Newberry EGS Demonstration: Well 55-29 Stimulation Data

The Newberry Volcano EGS Demonstration in central Oregon, a 3 year project started in 2010, tests recent technological advances designed to reduce the cost of power generated by EGS in a hot, dry well (NWG 55-29) drilled in 2008. First, the stimulation pumps used were designed to ...

T., T. AltaRock Energy Inc

Dec 08, 2012
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Technology Development and Field Trials of EGS Drilling Systems at Chocolate Mountain

Polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) bits are routinely used in the oil and gas industry for drilling medium to hard rock but have not been adopted for geothermal drilling, largely due to past reliability issues and higher purchase costs. The Sandia Geothermal Research Departmen...

Knudsen, S. et al Sandia National Laboratories

Jan 01, 2012
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Utah FORGE: Optimization of a Plug-and-Perf Stimulation (Fervo Energy)

Information around the plug-and-perf treatment design at Utah FORGE by Fervo Energy. Objective and Purpose: Develop a multistage hydraulic stimulation approach designed specifically to target the top three factors that control the technical and commercial viability of an EGS sys...

Norbeck, J. et al Fervo Energy

Feb 08, 2023
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Nevada Great Basin Play Fairway Analysis Reports & Appendices

This project focused on defining geothermal play fairways and development of a detailed geothermal potential map of a large transect across the Great Basin region (96,000 km2), with the primary objective of facilitating discovery of commercial-grade, blind geothermal fields (i.e. ...

Faulds, J. et al Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Oct 28, 2015
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Deep Direct-Use Feasibility Study Tuscarora Sandstone Geophysical Log Digitization

This dataset contains well log files collected from wells penetrating the Tuscarora Sandstone, structural geologic map of West Virginia and salinity information based on brine geochemistry in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. A combination of proprietary and free software may be re...

Moore, J. West Virginia University

Dec 18, 2019
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Final Report Earth Source Heat: A Cascaded Systems Approach to DDU of Geothermal Energy on the Cornell Campus

The purpose of this document is to describe the contents contained within Geothermal Data Repository (GDR) node of the National Geothermal Data System (NGDS) that serves as the final report for the project "Earth Source Heat: A Cascaded Systems Approach to DDU of Geothermal Energy...

Tester, J. et al Cornell University

Oct 27, 2019
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EGS Collab Experiment 1: Second Set Tracer Test Results

The EGS Collab project is developing ~10-20 m-scale field sites where fracture stimulation and flow models can be validated against controlled, small-scale, in-situ experiments. The first multi-well experimental site was established at the 4850 level in the Homestake Mine in Lead,...