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Simulation Tools for Modeling Thermal Spallation Drilling on Multiple Scales

Widespread adoption of geothermal energy will require access to deeply buried resources in granitic basement rocks at high temperatures and pressures. Exploiting these resources necessitates novel methods for drilling, stimulation, and maintenance, under operating conditions that ...

Walsh, S. et al Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Jan 01, 2012
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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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Performance, Cost, and Financial Parameters of Geothermal District Heating Systems for Market Penetration Modeling under Various Scenarios

The U.S. Department of Energy Geothermal Vision (GeoVision) Study is currently looking at the potential to increase geothermal deployment in the U.S. and to understand the impact of this increased deployment. This paper reviews 31 performance, cost, and financial parameters as inp...

Beckers, K. and Young, K. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Mar 23, 2017
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Utah FORGE 3-2535: Preliminary Report on Development of a Reservoir Seismic Velocity Model

This report describes the development of a preliminary 3D seismic velocity model at the Utah FORGE site and first results from estimating seismic resolution in the generated fracture volume during Stage 3 of the April 2022 stimulation. A preliminary 3D velocity model for the larg...

Gritto, R. Array Information Technology

Jan 30, 2023
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Utah FORGE: Seismic DAS and Geophone Borehole Data Processing and 3D Imaging of Vp/Vs Ratio in the 2024 Stimulated Reservoir

This dataset includes a final report and a 3D velocity model derived from seismic DAS and geophone borehole data collected during the April 2024 stimulation of the reservoir at Utah FORGE. The report details the processing of over 50,000 P and S-wave travel times used in a tomogra...

Gritto, R. and Jarpe, S. EMR Solutions and Technology

Mar 17, 2025
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Utah FORGE 2-2446: Report on Laboratory Block Experiments with Six Different Combinations of Stresses and Rock Fabrics

This report documents a series of block-scale hydraulic fracturing experiments, simulating Utah FORGE conditions to investigate how different combinations of in situ stress regimes, well orientations, and thermal stress conditions influence fracture initiation and propagation. The...

Bunger, A. and Lu, Y. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Jan 30, 2025
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EGS Collab Experiment 3: 4100 Tensile Stimulation and Thermal Circulation Testing

These data and test descriptions are from a set of primarily tensile hydraulic-fracture stimulations in wells E2-TC and E2-TU and a subsequent chilled water circulation test conducted by injecting in well E2-TU on the 4100 level of the Sandford Underground Research Facility (SURF)...

Vermeul, V. et al Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Aug 26, 2022
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EGS Collab: Modeling and Simulation Working Group Teleconference Series (1-98)

This submission contains the presentation slides and recordings from the first 98 EGS Collab Modeling and Simulation Working Group teleconferences. These teleconferences served three objectives for the project: 1) share simulation results, 2) communicate field activities and resul...

White, M. et al Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Feb 04, 2020
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Utah FORGE: Seismic Reflection Data

This is 2D and 3D seismic reflection data from Utah FORGE reprocessed during Phase 2c. The readme file containing an explanation of the data including data formats, software that can be used, processing, and projection and datum used. The Reprocessing document gives the rationale ...

Miller, J. Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah

Jun 19, 2019
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Cape EGS: Gold 4-PB: Mudlog, Mass Spectrometry, Triple Combo, and Dipole Sonic-Derived Geomechanical data

This dataset includes geological and geophysical well logs from the Gold 4-PB well at the Cape EGS site near Utah FORGE, collected between December 2024 and January 2025. The dataset covers lithological, geochemical, and petrophysical data acquired during and after drilling. Data ...

Dadi, S. and Adams, T. Fervo Energy

Apr 30, 2025
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Foam Fracturing Fluid Half-life Experimental Data

Foam thermal stability was studies at Temple University in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL). The goal of this project is to explore thermally stable foams as hydrofracking fluid media for potential applications in enhanced geothermal system (EGS). Data generated fr...

Thakor, V. et al Temple University

May 20, 2022
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Brady's Geothermal Field March 2016 Vibroseis SEG-Y Files and UTM Locations

PoroTomo March 2016 Updated vibroseis source locations with UTM locations. Supersedes gdr.openei.org/submissions/824. Updated vibroseis source location data for Stages 1-4, PoroTomo March 2016. This revision includes source point locations in UTM format (meters) for all four Stage...

Feigl, K. University of Wisconsin

Mar 31, 2016
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Establishing the Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) on the Newberry Volcano, OR

The proposed Newberry Volcano FORGE site is in central Oregon on the northwest flank of the largest volcano in the Cascades volcanic arc. Beneath Newberry Volcano is one of the largest geothermal heat reservoirs in the western United States, extensively studied for the last 40 yea...

Bonneville, A. et al Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Feb 22, 2016
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Development of a Downhole Tool Measuring Real-Time Concentration of Ionic Tracers and pH in Geothermal Reservoirs

For enhanced or Engineered Geothermal Systems (EGS) geothermal brine is pumped to the surface via the production wells, the heat extracted to turn a turbine to generate electricity, and the spent brine re-injected via injection wells back underground. If designed properly, the sub...

Hess, R. et al Sandia National Laboratories

Mar 31, 2014
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EGS Collab: 3D Geophysical Model Around the Sanford Underground Research Facility

This package contains data associated with a proceedings paper (linked below) submitted to the 44th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering. The Geophysical Model text file contains density, P and S-wave seismic speeds on a 3D grid. The file has six columns and provides latit...

Chai, C. et al Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Feb 06, 2019
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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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Techno-Economic Simulation Results Using dGeo for EGS-Based District Heating in the Northeastern United States

This dataset presents the results of techno-economic simulations performed using the Distributed Geothermal Market Demand Model (dGeo) to evaluate the feasibility of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS)-based district heating in the Northeastern United States. Developed by the Nation...

Pauling, H. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sep 30, 2024
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Geothermometry Mapping of Deep Hydrothermal Reservoirs in Southeastern Idaho: Final Report

Geothermometry Mapping of Deep Hydrothermal Reservoirs in Southeastern Idaho. Project final report with detail appendices.

Mattson, E. et al Idaho National Laboratory

Aug 15, 2016
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Snake River Plain Play Fairway Analysis: Phase 1 Report

This presents the results of Phase 1 of the Snake River Plain Play Fairway Analysis project, along with a proposed work for Phase 2. No new data were collected, but we list data sources for our compilation. The Snake River volcanic province (SRP) overlies a thermal anomaly that e...

Shervais, J. et al Utah State University

Jan 25, 2016
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Utah FORGE: Seismic and Other Shapefiles from the Roosevelt Hot Springs Area

Three shapefiles in this submission show the position of proposed seismic line surveys. The mid-crustal velocity anomaly file shows the extent of an anomalously low P-wave velocity zone in the subsurface. Two other files show the extent of known hydrothermal systems in the Rooseve...

Moore, J. Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah

Mar 22, 2016
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Experimental Images and Videos of Foam Stability (Half-life)

The experimental data obtained in this project is the thermal stability data of various foams measured using the setup established at Temple University during this study. The setup is installed with a portable digital camera which can take images and videos of foam evolution at a ...

Thakor, V. et al Temple University

Sep 15, 2021
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Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) of Strain at Earth Tide Frequencies: Laboratory Tests

The solid Earth strains in response to the gravitational pull from the Moon, Sun, and other planetary bodies. Measuring the flexure of geologic material in response to these Earth tides provides information about the geomechanical properties of rock and sediment. Such measurements...

Coleman, T. and Becker, M. California State University

Jan 24, 2018
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Snake River Plain FORGE: Site Characterization Data

The site characterization data used to develop the conceptual geologic model for the Snake River Plain site in Idaho, as part of phase 1 of the Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) initiative. This collection includes data on seismic events, groundwater,...

Moos, D. and Barton, C. Idaho National Laboratory

Apr 18, 2016
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Sedimentary Geothermal Feasibility in Nevada, Western Utah, Colorado, and the Gulf Coast Region of Texas Final Report

The objectives of this project were to (1) perform a literature review of sedimentary geothermal resources, (2) identify data sources and develop data-collection methodologies that characterize selected resources, (3) screen sedimentary basins and formations for sedimentary geothe...

Johnston, H. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jul 01, 2020
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Fallon FORGE: Well Data, Geophysical Data, and Geologic Maps

The data is associated to the Fallon FORGE project and includes mudlogs for all wells used to characterize the subsurface, as wells as gravity, magnetotelluric, earthquake seismicity, and temperature data from the Navy GPO and Ormat. Also included are geologic maps from the USGS a...

Blankenship, D. Sandia National Laboratories

Mar 31, 2016
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