Utah FORGE: Well 16B(78)-32 Drilling Data
This drilling data for Utah FORGE well 16B(78)-32 include a well survey, core summary, mud and mud temperature logs, daily reports of the drilling process, and additional data from the Pason oil and gas company. Well 16B(78)-32 serves as the production well for reservoir creation, fluid circulation, and demonstration of heat extraction for the FORGE project. It has been drilled as a doublet approximately 300 feet parallel to and above the injection well 16A(78)-32. The proposed total depth was 10,658 feet, which was exceeded. Spudding began on April 26th, 2023. As of June 20th, 2023, the total depth measured 10,947 feet and the vertical depth measured 8,357 feet.
Drilling included the trial use of insulated drill pipe (IDP) from Eavor Technologies, which was considered a success. IDP restricts counter-current heat transfer between drilling fluid inside the drill string and hotter returning fluid in the annulus, thereby ensuring the bottomhole assembly (BHA) remains submerged in cool fluid. Eavor rented 350 joints of IDP to FORGE which were run in two consecutive BHAs at the well. The results of this trial are included here.
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AB - This drilling data for Utah FORGE well 16B(78)-32 include a well survey, core summary, mud and mud temperature logs, daily reports of the drilling process, and additional data from the Pason oil and gas company. Well 16B(78)-32 serves as the production well for reservoir creation, fluid circulation, and demonstration of heat extraction for the FORGE project. It has been drilled as a doublet approximately 300 feet parallel to and above the injection well 16A(78)-32. The proposed total depth was 10,658 feet, which was exceeded. Spudding began on April 26th, 2023. As of June 20th, 2023, the total depth measured 10,947 feet and the vertical depth measured 8,357 feet.
Drilling included the trial use of insulated drill pipe (IDP) from Eavor Technologies, which was considered a success. IDP restricts counter-current heat transfer between drilling fluid inside the drill string and hotter returning fluid in the annulus, thereby ensuring the bottomhole assembly (BHA) remains submerged in cool fluid. Eavor rented 350 joints of IDP to FORGE which were run in two consecutive BHAs at the well. The results of this trial are included here.
AU - McLennan, John
A2 - Mock, Blake
A3 - Swearingen, Leroy
A4 - Baldwin, Randy
A5 - Hodder, Mark
A6 - Vetsak, Alex
A7 - Kuhns, A.T.
A8 - Breland, Jack
A9 - England, Kevin
DB - Geothermal Data Repository
DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
DO - 10.15121/1998591
KW - geothermal
KW - energy
KW - well 16B78-32
KW - Utah FORGE
KW - well 16B78-32 drilling
KW - well 16B78-32 drilling data
KW - drilling data
KW - Utah FORGE drilling data
KW - well 16B78-32 drilling logs
KW - well 16B78-32 logs
KW - well 16B78-32 daily reports
KW - well 16B78-32 survey
KW - Utah FORGE drilling
KW - core drilling
KW - core
KW - Pason
KW - Pason data
KW - mud temperature logs
KW - mud temperature
KW - daily reports
KW - core summary
KW - Eavor
KW - insulated drill pipe
KW - insulated drill pipe test
KW - Utah geothermal
KW - mud logs
KW - lithology
KW - geology
LA - English
DA - 2023/07/03
PY - 2023
PB - Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah
T1 - Utah FORGE: Well 16B(78)-32 Drilling Data
UR - https://doi.org/10.15121/1998591
ER -
McLennan, John, et al. Utah FORGE: Well 16B(78)-32 Drilling Data. Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah, 3 July, 2023, Geothermal Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.15121/1998591.
McLennan, J., Mock, B., Swearingen, L., Baldwin, R., Hodder, M., Vetsak, A., Kuhns, A., Breland, J., & England, K. (2023). Utah FORGE: Well 16B(78)-32 Drilling Data. [Data set]. Geothermal Data Repository. Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah. https://doi.org/10.15121/1998591
McLennan, John, Blake Mock, Leroy Swearingen, Randy Baldwin, Mark Hodder, Alex Vetsak, A.T. Kuhns, Jack Breland, and Kevin England. Utah FORGE: Well 16B(78)-32 Drilling Data. Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah, July, 3, 2023. Distributed by Geothermal Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.15121/1998591
@misc{GDR_Dataset_1516,
title = {Utah FORGE: Well 16B(78)-32 Drilling Data},
author = {McLennan, John and Mock, Blake and Swearingen, Leroy and Baldwin, Randy and Hodder, Mark and Vetsak, Alex and Kuhns, A.T. and Breland, Jack and England, Kevin},
abstractNote = {This drilling data for Utah FORGE well 16B(78)-32 include a well survey, core summary, mud and mud temperature logs, daily reports of the drilling process, and additional data from the Pason oil and gas company. Well 16B(78)-32 serves as the production well for reservoir creation, fluid circulation, and demonstration of heat extraction for the FORGE project. It has been drilled as a doublet approximately 300 feet parallel to and above the injection well 16A(78)-32. The proposed total depth was 10,658 feet, which was exceeded. Spudding began on April 26th, 2023. As of June 20th, 2023, the total depth measured 10,947 feet and the vertical depth measured 8,357 feet.
Drilling included the trial use of insulated drill pipe (IDP) from Eavor Technologies, which was considered a success. IDP restricts counter-current heat transfer between drilling fluid inside the drill string and hotter returning fluid in the annulus, thereby ensuring the bottomhole assembly (BHA) remains submerged in cool fluid. Eavor rented 350 joints of IDP to FORGE which were run in two consecutive BHAs at the well. The results of this trial are included here.},
url = {https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/1516},
year = {2023},
howpublished = {Geothermal Data Repository, Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah, https://doi.org/10.15121/1998591},
note = {Accessed: 2025-04-24},
doi = {10.15121/1998591}
}
https://dx.doi.org/10.15121/1998591
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Data from Jul 3, 2023
Last updated May 21, 2024
Submitted Sep 6, 2023
Organization
Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah
Contact
John McLennan
801.587.7925
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Keywords
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Project Name Utah FORGE
Project Lead Lauren Boyd
Project Number EE0007080
