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Exploration Best Practices on OpenEI

This is an electronic database detailing different types of, various phases of, best practices for, and cost and time associated with geothermal exploration techniques. The groups of exploration techniques included in the database are Data and Modeling Techniques, Downhole Techniq...

Young, K. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sep 20, 2013
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SMP Preparation, Programming, and Characterization

The problem of loss circulation in geothermal wells is inherently challenging due to high temperatures, brittle rocks, and presence of abundant fractures. Because of the inherent challenges in geothermal environments, there are limitations in selecting proper lost circulation mate...

Salehi, S. et al University of Oklahoma

Oct 01, 2021
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Practices Maintain Straight Hole in Crooked Hole Conditions, While Also Enabling Significant Gains in Drill Rate

Bottom hole assembly (BHA) designs were assessed in field trials for their ability to achieve critical low inclination requirements, while simultaneously enabling high drill rates. Because angle has historically been controlled by reducing weight on bit (WOB), these are often com...

Knudsen, S. et al Sandia National Laboratories

Apr 30, 2014
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Lost Circulation Materials in Geothermal Drilling: Thermal Degradation, Viscosity, Compression, and Flow Loop Tests

This dataset provides a set of experimental data on the performance of lost circulation materials (LCMs) used in geothermal drilling operations. It includes results from four distinct tests: thermal degradation, viscosity measurements, compression tests, and high-temperature flow ...

Kibikas, W. et al Sandia National Laboratories

Feb 01, 2022
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Sedimentary Geothermal Feasibility in Eastern Nevada and Millard County, Utah Well Databases

In order to gather data to assess sedimentary geothermal feasibility in Nevada and Utah, state oil and gas and geothermal databases were serached for well files and well logs. Well data from the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology oil and gas and geothermal databases was mined for ...

Taverna, N. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nov 30, 2019
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McGee Mountain Shallow (2m) Temperature Survey, Humboldt County, Nevada 2009

This shapefile contains location and attribute data for a shallow (2 meter) temperature survey conducted by Geothermal Technical Partners, Inc. during late 2008 and early 2009. Temperatures at 2m depth were measured at 192 separate points as outlined by Coolbaugh et al., 2007. The...

Zehner, R. Geothermal Technical Partners, Inc.

Jan 01, 2009
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Project Hotspot Petrology, Geochemistry and Stratigraphy of the Kimama core hole, Snake River Plain, Idaho

This submission contains links to two open source published papers on the Kimama core hole, Project Hotspot. "Volcanic stratigraphy and age model of the Kimama deep borehole (Project Hotspot)" Basalts erupted in the Snake River Plain of central Idaho and sampled in the Kimama dri...

Shervais, J. et al Utah State University

Mar 19, 2019
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Hawaii Play Fairway: Preliminary Core Box Photos, Lanai Island, Hawaii

Photos of core samples from Lanai Island. During the third phase of the Hawaii Play Fairway project, further exploration involved drilling a groundwater well in Lanai's Palawai Basin and performing more geophysical surveys. The project deepened an existing water well on Lanai. Dri...

Lautze, N. et al University of Hawaii

Jul 01, 2019
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EGS Collab Experiment 1: Circulation Testing Processed data

This submission includes processed and reduced data for circulation testing that was conducted at the 164' fracture on the 4850 ft level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility. The circulation tests were done to test the flow through the 164' fracture in the EGS Collab Exper...

Fu, P. et al Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Apr 01, 2021
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M3 Wave DMP/APEX WEC Wave Tank Testing Final Raw Dataset

Complete dataset from wave tank testing for the Delos-Reyes Morrow Pressure Device (DMP), commercialized by M3 Wave LLC as "APEX". Subdirectories include Readme files where appropriate to aid in navigation.

Morrow, M. et al M3 Wave

Sep 01, 2017
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Newberry EGS Demonstration: Initial Project Report and Induced Seismicity Mitigation Plan, 2011

This is the first project report and induced seismicity mitigation plan for the Newberry Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) Demonstration project. The primary objectives of this first phase were to obtain necessary permits and comply with all regulations, including NEPA, communica...

Cladouhos, T. et al AltaRock Energy Inc

May 05, 2024
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Utah FORGE: Borehole Sensors and Well Trajectories (April 2022)

This link leads to a webpage with spreadsheets containing seismic borehole sensor locations and well trajectories for wells 56-32, 58-32, 78-32, 78B-32. Each of the files at the provided link include meta data on relevant information.

Pankow, K. University of Utah Seismograph Stations

Dec 23, 2022
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Resource Reporting Methodology Analysis and Development of Geothermal Reporting Metric for the Geothermal Technologies Office Hydrothermal Program

The US Geological Survey (USGS) resource assessment (Williams et al., 2009) outlined a mean 30GWe of undiscovered hydrothermal resource in the western US. One goal of the Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) is to accelerate the development of this undiscovered resource. The Geoth...

YoungNational Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jan 19, 2016
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Guelph, ON Canada DTS Metadata

Metadata for active distributed temperature survey (DTS) experiments at Guelph, Ontario Canada. This data that this metadata refers to was taken as part of the PoroTomo project. The metadata includes information about status, location, elevation, units, and other metadata.

Coleman, T. University of Wisconsin

Dec 15, 2014
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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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Utah FORGE: UGS Interactive Geoscience Map

This is a link to the Utah Geological Survey's Utah FORGE Interactive Geoscience Map. The map layers include information on geology, geography, subsurface temperatures, seismicity, gravity and groundwater. Instructions for using the interactive map and a legend for the interactive...

Hill, J. Utah Geological Survey

Jan 01, 2021
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Seismic Survey 2016 Data at Crescent Valley, Nevada

In September 2016, 989 vertical-component seismic instruments were deployed for 75 hours at the Crescent Valley greenfield geothermal play area in Nevada. Data were recorded 12/9/16 12/15/16. Data are stored in individual files in one-minute increments in SEGD formats. See the met...

Lord, N. et al University of Wisconsin Madison

Dec 04, 2023
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TEAMER AquaHarmonics High Fidelity WEC Sim PTO and Control Model Validation, Test Logs and Results

Collaborative effort between AquaHarmonics, Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to revise and validate Aquaharmonics' full wave to wire model, allowing for reduced uncertainty and increased understanding of design requirements of...

Hagmuller, A. et al AquaHarmonics, Inc.

Dec 16, 2021
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University of Illinois Campus Deep Direct-Use Feasibility Study Designs for Deep Injection and Monitoring Wells

The following information is provided about the design of deeps wells constructed in the Illinois Basin to store, sequester, or dispose of CO2, natural gas, and industrial wastes.

Lin, Y. et al University of Illinois

Mar 30, 2018
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Geothermal Exploration Cost and Time

The Department of Energy's Geothermal Technology Office (GTO) provides RD&D funding for geothermal exploration technologies with the goal of lowering the risks and costs of geothermal development and exploration. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) was tasked with deve...

JenneNational Renewable Energy Laboratory

Dec 21, 2014
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Penn State Lab Testing Fluid-Rock Interaction in Geothermal Reservoirs

This project focused on assessment and discovery of fluid-rock interaction in geothermal reservoirs. We accomplished work in four main areas: 1) fracture formation and the relationship between fluid flow and shear failure, 2) assessment of fracture geometry and fluid permeability ...

Madara, B. et al Pennsylvania State University

Jan 01, 2018
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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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DEEPEN Leapfrog Geodata Model Cleaned and Reformatted Exploration Datasets from Newberry Volcano

DEEPEN stands for DE-risking Exploration of geothermal Plays in magmatic ENvironments. As part of the DEEPEN 3D play fairway analysis (PFA) conducted at Newberry Volcano for multiple play types (conventional hydrothermal, superhot EGS, and supercritical), existing geoscientific e...

Pauling, H. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jun 30, 2023
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Model results and data for Nontechnical Barriers to Geothermal Development

Data included in this submission support the analysis conducted for the report "Nontechnical Barriers to Geothermal Development" which is linked bellow. These data include information about the power purchase agreements (PPAs) analyzed for the report, inputs and model results for ...

Rabinowitz, H. et al Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Jul 25, 2022
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WHOLESCALE: Seismic Waveform Data from San Emidio, Nevada 2022

Included here is a link to seismic waveform data collected at San Emidio, Nevada in 2022. The seismic instruments used were provided by EarthScope Consortium through the EarthScope Primary Instrument Center at New Mexico Tech. Data collected are available here through EarthScope ...