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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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Advanced Sorbent Structure Recovery of REEs, Precious Metals and Other Valuable Metals from Geothermal Waters and Its Associated Technoeconomics

This work evaluates, develops and demonstrates flexible, scalable mineral extraction technology for geothermal brines based upon solid phase sorbent materials with a specific focus upon rare earth elements (REEs). The selected organic and inorganic sorbent materials demonstrated h...

Addleman, S. et al Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

May 25, 2017
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Active Source 3D Seismic Tomography of Brady Hot Springs Geothermal Field, Nevada

We deployed a dense seismic array to image the shallow structure in the injection area of the Brady Hot Springs geothermal site in Nevada. The array was composed of 238 5 Hz, three-component nodal instruments and 8,700 m of distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) fiber-optic cable inst...

Parker, L. University of Wisconsin

Aug 09, 2017
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Validation of Innovative Exploration Technologies for Newberry Volcano: Shallow Temperature Data

Validation of Innovative Exploration Technologies for Newberry Volcano: Temperature Readings from 7 wells drilled to date by SMU 2012

Frone, Z. et al Davenport Newberry Holdings, LLC

Jan 01, 2012
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Hawaii Play Fairway Analysis: MT and AMT Survey along the Saddle Road, Hawaii

Pierce, H.A., and Thomas, D.M., 2009, Magnetotelluric and audiomagnetotelluric groundwater survey along the Humu'ula portion of Saddle Road near and around the Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009, 1135, 160 p.

Pierce, H. and Thomas, D. University of Hawaii

Jan 01, 2009
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Chelating Resins for Selective Separation and Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Low Temperature Geothermal Water

Study on the use of organic ligands to extract lanthanides from low temperature geothermal water.

Callura, J. Carnegie Mellon University

Dec 31, 2016
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Topographic and Air-Photo Lineaments in Various Locations Related to Geothermal Exploration in Colorado

These line shapefiles trace apparent topographic and air-photo lineaments in various counties in Colorado. It was made in order to identify possible fault and fracture systems that might be conduits for geothermal fluids, as part of a DOE reconnaissance geothermal exploration prog...

Zehner, R. Flint Geothermal, LLC

Feb 01, 2012
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LiDAR as an Exploration Tool

Using LiDAR to identify structural and volcanic evolution of a Miocene-Pleistocene age bimodal volcanic complex and implications for geothermal potential. The file includes an updated geologic map, methods, and preliminary results.

Boschmann, D. et al Ormat Nevada Inc

Jan 01, 2011
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Geothermal Technologies Program GETEM and LCOE Improvements Review (March 21, 2013)

This file was a report submitted to GTO by Mark Paster, a consultant to the GETEM project, to outline the improvements that were made between summer 2011 and spring 2013. The report focuses on six areas of model improvement: (1) Site Specific Cost Variability; (2) Consistency wi...

Paster, M. Idaho National Laboratory

Mar 21, 2013
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Poroelastic References

This file contains a list of relevant references on the Biot theory (forward and inverse approaches), the double-porosity and dual-permeability theory, and seismic wave propagation in fracture porous media, in RIS format, to approach seismic monitoring in a complex fractured porou...

Morency, C. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Dec 12, 2014
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Deep Direct-Use Feasibility Study Estimation of Reservoir Properties for the Tuscarora Sandstone

This dataset contains black-and-white photographic images of individual core segments from well Preston 119 and photomicrographs taken of petrographic thin sections from well Clay 513. Minipermeameter measurement results of 2,260 samples for fracture and matrix permeability on cor...

McDowell, R. West Virginia University

Dec 19, 2019
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Rare Earth Element Content of Thermal Fluids from Surprise Valley, California

Rare earth element measurements for thermal fluids from Surprise Valley, California. Samples were collected in acid washed HDPE bottles and acidified with concentrated trace element clean (Fisher Scientific) nitric acid. Samples were pre-concentrated by a factor of approximately 1...

Fowler, A. and Zierenberg, R. University of California

Sep 23, 2015
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Comparison of Rare Earth Element Sorption Between Fresh and Partially Loaded Media Using Simulated Geothermal Brine

A study comparing the REE sorption characteristics of fresh ligand-based sorption media and media partially loaded with REEs when exposed to a simulated geothermal brine with known mineral concentrations, REE7. Sorption rates were tested using microcosm shaker tests. Results sugg...

Stull, D. Tusaar Corp.

May 24, 2016
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Lab-Scale Stimulation Results on Surrogate Fused Silica Samples

Lab-scale stimulation work on non-porous fused silica (similar mechanical properties to igneous rock) was performed using pure water, pure CO2 and water/CO2 mixtures to compare back to back fracturing performance of these fluids with PNNL's StimuFrac.

Fernandez, C. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Jul 06, 2016
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3D Model of the Tuscarora Geothermal Area

The Tuscarora geothermal system sits within a ~15 km wide left-step in a major west-dipping range-bounding normal fault system. The step over is defined by the Independence Mountains fault zone and the Bull Runs Mountains fault zone which overlap along strike. Strain is transferre...

E., J. University of Nevada

Dec 31, 2013
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Tularosa Basin Play Fairway Analysis Model

This submission contains several shapefiles used for a deterministic PFA, as well as a heat composite risk segment with union overlay, and training sites used for weights of evidence. More detailed metadata can be found in the specific file.

Brandt, A. University of Utah

Nov 15, 2015
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kISMET Core Photos and Descriptions

These core photos and descriptions were taken from the five boreholes that were drilled as part of the kISMET SubTER project conducted at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, SD. The boreholes are subvertical in orientation, and were drilled on the 4850 level ...

Dobson, P. et al Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Aug 02, 2016
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Brady Geothermal 1D Seismic Velocity Model

This submission contains an ASCII text file of seismic velocities derived from ambient noise cross-correlation used to create a model of seismic velocity as a 1-D function of depth in addition to a quarterly report describing the creation and use of the model. Model uses 28 Green'...

Matzel, E. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Feb 17, 2015
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Hawaii Play Fairway Analysis: USGS Quaternary Fault and Fold Database

This database contains information on faults and associated folds in the United States that are believed to be sources of M>6 earthquakes during the Quaternary (the past 1,600,000 years). Maps of these geologic structures are linked to detailed descriptions and references. Used t...

Lautze, N. University of Hawaii

Jan 01, 2015
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HT Flash and Tantalum Capacitor Report

Pushing the boundaries with geothermal tool development can often necessitate exceeding manufacturer specifications for temperature and pressure of individual circuit components. Detailed here are the efforts surrounding geothermal temperature characterization of commercially avai...

Cashion, A. and Cieslewski, G. Sandia National Laboratories

Oct 28, 2015
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Triggered MEQ Events on LBNL Permanent Seismic Array, Brady's EGS, March 2016

List of triggered events recorded on LBNL's permanent EGS seismic array at Brady's geothermal field. This submission also includes links to the NCEDC EGS Earthquake Catalog Search page and to the metadata for the seismic array installed at Brady's Geothermal Field.

Robertson, M. University of Wisconsin

Jun 01, 2016
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Microearthquake Studies at the Salton Sea Geothermal Field

The objective of this project is to detect and locate microearthquakes to aid in the characterization of reservoir fracture networks. Accurate identification and mapping of the large numbers of microearthquakes induced in EGS is one technique that provides diagnostic information w...

Templeton, D. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Oct 01, 2013
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Preliminary Geologic Map of the Wabuska Quadrangle, Lyon County, Nevada Wabuska Geothermal Area

This geologic map of the Wabuska Geothermal Area outlines the locations of quaternary deposits, late tertiary volcanic and sedimentary rocks, late tertiary intrusive rocks and veins, Oligocene ash-flow tuffs and sedimentary rocks, and Triassic sedimentary rocks. Suggested citatio...

Hinz, N. University of Nevada

Oct 31, 2013
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GEO2D Two-Dimensional Computer Model of a Ground Source Heat Pump System

This file contains a zipped file that contains many files required to run GEO2D. GEO2D is a computer code for simulating ground source heat pump (GSHP) systems in two-dimensions. GEO2D performs a detailed finite difference simulation of the heat transfer occurring within the worki...

Menart, J. Wright State University

Jun 07, 2013
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SE Great Basin Play Fairway Analysis PFA Models and Probability Map

This submission includes a Na/K geothermometer probability greater than 200 deg C map, as well as two play fairway analysis (PFA) models. The probability map acts as a composite risk segment for the PFA models. The PFA models differ in their application of magnetotelluric conducto...