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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...
Operational performance requirements are needed to support development of specifications for downhole motor power sections to be used for drilling hard rock during geothermal wellbore construction. Theoretical torque specifications are derived based upon a widely-accepted rock-re...
Final Technical Report for the GLADE Geothermal Drilling project in the DJ Basin of Colorado. The Geothermal Limitless Approach to Drilling Efficiencies (GLADE) project was undertaken to evaluate whether advanced oil and gas drilling practices could be adapted to improve geotherma...
Lessons Learned document for the GLADE Geothermal Drilling project in the DJ Basin, Colorado. The Geothermal Limitless Approach to Drilling Efficiencies (GLADE) project was undertaken to evaluate whether advanced oil and gas drilling practices could be adapted to improve geotherm...
Pre-Drill drilling prognosis for the GLADE Project wells, GLADE East and GLADE West, in the DJ Basin Colorado. The Geothermal Limitless Approach to Drilling Efficiencies (GLADE) project was undertaken to evaluate whether advanced oil and gas drilling practices could be adapted to ...
Files include daily mud reports for GLADE East and GLADE West wells in the DJ Basin, Colorado. Reports include daily mud data summaries for each well while drilling. The Mud Reports summarize mud composition and volumes each day throughout the project.
The Geothermal Limitless A...
Files include daily operational and drilling reports for GLADE East and GLADE West wells in the DJ Basin of Colorado. Reports include drilling summaries for work done and progress made daily for each well. There is a companion Final Drilling Report that summarizes some of the data...
The Geothermal Limitless Approach to Drilling Efficiencies (GLADE) project was undertaken in Denver-Julesburg (DJ) Basin Colorado to evaluate whether advanced oil and gas drilling practices could be adapted to improve geothermal well construction in deep, hot, hard-rock environmen...
A fundamental issue in microhole drilling is that delivering high weight-on-bit (WOB), high torque rotational horsepower to a conventional drill bit does not scale down to the hole sizes necessary to realize the envisioned cost savings An optimization algorithm called a golden sec...
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...
The objective of advanced drilling and logging technologies is to promote ways and means to reduce the cost of geothermal drilling through an integrated effort which involves developing an understanding of geothermal drilling and logging needs, elucidating best practices, and fost...
The McGee Mountain geothermal area was selected to test early-stage shallow temperature survey techniques and drill two slim holes to test the resource. Geothermal Technical Partners, Inc. was able to complete only a small portion of the project before lack of funding prevented f...
The files in this submission describes the results of a series of stress measurement and hydraulic fracturing experiments conducted at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, SD. This report describes the accomplishments of the kISMET (permeability (k) and Induce...
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...
Core logs and photos from the EGS Collab project Experiment 2 for the Top Vertical well (TV4100) and the Top Horizontal well (TV 4100) on the 4100 Level of SURF (the Sanford Underground Research Facility). The core logs are stored in a single PDF file with 5-ft run intervals. In t...
Document describing the methodology used to determine the accelerometers' three-component orientations at the first EGS Collab testbed using Continuous Active-Source Seismic Monitoring (CASSM) data and hodogram analysis.
Original submission: gdr.openei.org/submissions/1166
This is an Excel spreadsheet that contains rock properties from several wells in the Utah FORGE study area. This includes a map of the wells. Data is described in the Final Topical Report included in the resources below.
Geology log and drilling prospectus for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Energy Farm.
Geothermal power promises clean, renewable, reliable and potentially widely-available energy, but is limited by high initial capital costs. New drilling technologies are required to make geothermal power financially competitive with other energy sources. One potential solution is ...
Wells for Engineered Geothermal Systems (EGS) typically occur in conditions presenting significant challenges for conventional rotary and percussive drilling technologies: granitic rocks that reduce drilling speeds and cause substantial equipment wear. Thermal spallation drilling,...
Characterizing the stimulation mode of a fracture is critical to assess the hydraulic efficiency and the seismic risk related to deep fluid manipulations. We have monitored the three-dimensional displacements of a fluid-driven fracture during water injections in a borehole at ~1.5...
The Hawaii Play Fairway Project deepened an already existing water well in Palawai Basin, Lanai island. Lanai Well #10 was deepened from 427 m to ~1057 m, with nearly continuous rock core collected. Spanning the dates from May 13 to July 5, 2019, the daily drilling reports of Lana...
This data set includes sidewall core data from well Cornell ESH #1 (API 31109300030000), known as the Cornell University Borehole Observatory, or CUBO. It is a stratigraphic well drilled to characterize potential EGS resources. The Drilling commenced on June 21, 2022 and total dep...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) Collab project aims to improve our understanding of hydraulic stimulations in crystalline rock for enhanced geothermal energy production through execution of intensely monitored meso-scale experiments. The first expe...
This preliminary data archive includes meteorological data recorded at the Utah FORGE facility over the period of time including the completion/cementing of well 16B(78)-32 and the initial 2023 circulation test, largely occurring in June/July/August of 2023. This information may p...
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