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Effectiveness of Shallow Temperature Surveys to Target a Geothermal Reservoir at Previously Explored Site at McGee Mountain, Nevada: Final Report for U.S. Department Of Energy Grant EE-0002830

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...

Zehner, R. Geothermal Technical Partners, Inc.

Mar 07, 2014
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Microhole drilling technology utilizing a golden section search algorithm

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...

Su, J. et al Sandia National Laboratories

Jun 23, 2021
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Geothermal Exploration of Newberry Volcano, Oregon Summary Report

Abstract: Davenport Newberry (Davenport) has completed 8 years of exploration for geothermal energy on Newberry Volcano in central Oregon. Two deep exploration test wells were drilled by Davenport on the west flank of the volcano, one intersected a hydrothermal system; the other ...

Waibel, A. et al Southern Methodist University

Jan 01, 2015
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Utah FORGE 2439: Report on Minifrac Tests for Stress Characterization

This report describes minifrac tests conducted in the 16B(78)-32 well at the Utah FORGE site to characterize subsurface stresses, including the magnitude and orientation of the minimum and maximum horizontal stresses and the magnitude of the vertical stress. A minifrac test was co...

Kelley, M. et al Battelle Memorial Institute

Feb 22, 2024
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PoroTomo: Horizontal Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) Measurements During an M 2.3 Explosion

Included here are Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) data collected by the horizontal DAS array at Brady's Hot Springs Geothermal Field. The system recorded this data during an M 2.3 explosion at the Nevada Test Site (NTS), which is located approximately 400km southeast of the fie...

Kratt, C. et al Center for Transformative Environmental Monitoring Programs (CTEMPs)

Dec 18, 2018
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AASG Wells Data for the EGS Test Site Planning and Analysis Task

AASG Wells Data for the EGS Test Site Planning and Analysis Task Temperature measurement data obtained from boreholes for the Association of American State Geologists (AASG) geothermal data project. Typically bottomhole temperatures are recorded from log headers, and this informat...

Augustine, C. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Oct 09, 2013
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EGS Collab Experiment 2: Preliminary Test Wells Locations and Orientations

The EGS Collab project is evaluating a site for Experiment 2 (hydraulic fracturing/shearing) at a depth of 1.25 km in the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) on the 4100 Level. Two early test holes were drilled in an alcove (formerly known as Battery Charging Station) nea...

Neupane, G. et al Idaho National Laboratory

Dec 19, 2019
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Matlab Scripts and Sample Data Associated with Water Resources Research Article

Scripts and data acquired at the Mirror Lake Research Site, cited by the article submitted to Water Resources Research: Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) as a Distributed Hydraulic Sensor in Fractured Bedrock M. W. Becker(1), T. I. Coleman(2), and C. C. Ciervo(1) 1 California St...

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

Jul 18, 2015
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DCIF (Directional Cooling-Induced Fracturing) Westerly Granite AE Borehole Damage Effect Test (Task 3-0)

Directional Cooling-Induced Fracturing (DCIF) experiments were conducted on three rectangular Westerly granite blocks (width=depth=4.0", height=2.0") which were preheated to 200, 400, and 600 degree C to induce damage (microcracks) with varying degrees. Liquid nitrogen was poured...

Nakagawa, S. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Jan 27, 2022
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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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EGS Collab Experiment 1: 3D Seismic Velocity Model and Updated Microseismic Catalog from Double-Difference Seismic Tomography

This package contains a 3D Seismic velocity model and an updated microseismic catalog obtained for a double-difference seismic tomography study. The 3D_seismic_velocity_model text file contains x (m), y(m), z(m), P-wave velocity (km/s), P-wave velocity quality indicator (1 for we...

Chai, C. et al Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jun 01, 2020
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Utah FORGE: Optimization of a Plug-and-Perf Stimulation (Fervo Energy)

Information around the plug-and-perf treatment design at Utah FORGE by Fervo Energy. Objective and Purpose: Develop a multistage hydraulic stimulation approach designed specifically to target the top three factors that control the technical and commercial viability of an EGS sys...

Norbeck, J. et al Fervo Energy

Feb 08, 2023
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Map of Validation of Innovative Exploration Technologies for Newberry Volcano

A map showing location of wells permitted, drilled and seismic test, as part of validation of innovative exploration technologies done for the Newberry Volcano project in 2012.

Jaffe, T. Davenport Newberry Holdings, LLC

Jul 01, 2012
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USU Camas-1 Test Well: Documentation

This submission contains documents that describe the USU Camas-1 test well, drilled in Camas Prairie, Idaho, in Fall 2018 and Fall 2019. The purpose of this well is to validate exploration methodologies of the Snake River Plain (SRP) Play Fairway Analysis (PFA) project.

Shervais, J. Utah State University

Oct 31, 2018
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EGS Collab Experiment 1: Baseline Cross-well Seismic

As part of the geophysical characterization suite for the first EGS Collab tesbed, here are the baseline cross-well seismic data and resultant models. The campaign seismic data have been organized, concatenated with geometry and compressional (P-) & and shear (S-) wave picks, and ...

Schwering, P. et al Sandia National Laboratories

Apr 30, 2018
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EGS Collab Experiment 1: 3D Seismic Velocity Model and Updated Microseismic Catalog Using Transfer-Learning Aided Double-Difference Tomography

This package contains a 3D Seismic velocity model and an updated microseismic catalog associated with a proceedings paper (Chai et al., 2020) published in the 45th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering. The 3D_seismic_velocity_model text file contains x (m), y(m), z(m), P-w...

Chai, C. et al Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Apr 20, 2020
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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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Three-Component Long Offset Surface Seismic Survey Data Used to Find Large Aperture Fractures in Geothermal Resources San Emidio Geothermal Resource Area

P and S-wave datasets and associated report studying the ability to use three-component long offset surface seismic surveys to find large aperture fractures in geothermal resources at the San Emidio geothermal resource area in Washoe County, Nevada.

Warren, I. U.S. Geothermal Inc.

Sep 15, 2010
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Reservoir Stimulation Optimization with Operational Monitoring for Creation of EGS

EGS field projects have not sustained production at rates greater than half of what is needed for economic viability. The primary limitation that makes commercial EGS infeasible is our current inability to cost-effectively create high-permeability reservoirs from impermeable, igne...

A., C. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Sep 25, 2013
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EGS Collab Experiment 1: Circulation Testing

These data and test descriptions comprise a chilled circulation test conducted at the 164' fracture in the EGS Collab Experiment 1 testbed on the 4850 ft level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Descriptions of the meta data, design drawings for the flow testing system,...

Knox, H. et al Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Apr 01, 2019
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Directional Cooling-Induced Fracturing Westerly Granite Test Results

Directional Cooling-Induced Fracturing (DCIF) experiments were conducted on a short, cylindrical sample of Westerly granite (diameter = 4 inches, height ~ 2 inches). Liquid nitrogen was poured in a copper cup attached to the top of the sample, and the resulting acoustic emissions ...

Nakagawa, S. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Dec 18, 2020
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Utah FORGE: Phase 2C Topical Report

This is the topical report that wraps up the work and results achieved during Utah FORGE Phase 2C. The zip file includes several folders containing (1) an overview; (2) the results; (3) the lessons learned; and (4) the conclusions. It also contains a folder containing appendices i...

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

Dec 11, 2019
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Magnetotelluric Data Collected in 2016 over the San Emidio Geothermal Field in Nevada

This data set includes the magnetotelluric (MT) data collected from October 21 to November 9, 2016 over the San Emidio geothermal field in Nevada by Quantec Geoscience USA Inc. on behalf of US Geothermal Inc. as part of a project entitled "A Novel Approach to Map Permeability Usi...

Folsom, M. et al Ormat Technologies, Inc.

Nov 09, 2016
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Passive Seismic Emission Tomography Results at San Emidio Nevada

The utility of passive seismic emission tomography for mapping geothermal permeability has been tested at San Emidio in Nevada. The San Emidio study area overlaps a geothermal field in production since 1987 and another resource to the south of the production field. Passive seismic...

Warren, I. et al Ormat Technologies, Inc.

Dec 01, 2016
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kISMET Final Report and Highlights

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...

Oldenburg, C. et al Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Oct 31, 2016
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