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McGee Mountain Geoprobe Study, Humboldt County, Nevada
Geoprobes were developed by the environmental industry to collect water, gas and soil samples from contaminated sites at shallow depths (10-40 meters), with a minimum of... -
McGee Mountain Transmission Interconnection Feasibility Study
This 2010 study by ZGlobal, Inc. examines possible transmission interconnect opportunities, issues, customers,etc., for the McGee Mountain geothermal system. McGee Mountain is... -
Chemical Impact of Elevated CO2 on Geothermal Energy Production
Numerical simulations have shown that the use of supercritical CO2 instead of water as a heat transfer fluid yields significantly greater heat extraction rates for geothermal... -
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... -
Geomechanical Modeling for Thermal Spallation Drilling
Wells for Engineered Geothermal Systems (EGS) typically occur in conditions presenting significant challenges for conventional rotary and percussive drilling technologies:... -
Grain-Scale Failure in Thermal Spallation Drilling
Geothermal power promises clean, renewable, reliable and potentially widely-available energy, but is limited by high initial capital costs. New drilling technologies are... -
Generalized Displacement Correlation Method for Estimating Stress Intensity F...
This paper presents a generalized form of the displacement correlation method (the GDC method), which can use any linear or quadratic finite element type with homogeneous... -
Modeling Responses of Naturally Fractured Geothermal Reservoir to Low-Pressur...
Hydraulic shearing is an appealing reservoir stimulation strategy for Enhanced Geothermal Systems. It is believed that hydro-shearing is likely to simulate a fracture network... -
Investigation of Stimulation-Response Relationships for Complex Fracture Syst...
Hydraulic fracturing is currently the primary method for stimulating low-permeability geothermal reservoirs and creating Enhanced (or Engineered) Geothermal Systems (EGS) with... -
Using Fully Coupled Hydro-Geomechanical Numerical Test Bed to Study Reservoir...
This paper documents our effort to use a fully coupled hydro-geomechanical numerical test bed to study using low hydraulic pressure to stimulate geothermal reservoirs with... -
Simulating Complex Fracture Systems in Geothermal Reservoirs Using an Explici...
Low permeability geothermal reservoirs can be stimulated by hydraulic fracturing to create Enhanced (or Engineered) Geothermal Systems (EGS) with higher permeability and... -
Fully Coupled Geomechanics and Discrete Flow Network Modeling of Hydraulic Fr...
The primary objective of our current research is to develop a computational test bed for evaluating borehole techniques to enhance fluid flow and heat transfer in enhanced... -
Microhole Tubing Bending Report
A downhole tubing bending study was made and is reported herein. It contains a report and 2 excel spreadsheets to calculate tubing bending and to estimate contact points of the... -
Seismic Line Location Map, Hot Pot Project, Humboldt County, Nevada 2010
Seismic Line Location Map Hot Pot Project, Humboldt County, Nevada 2010. Detailed map (pdf) showing topographic base map, Township and Range layer, Oski BLM and private leases... -
Development of an Improved Cement for Geothermal Wells - 2012 Progress Reports
This submission includes the University of Alaska Fairbanks Monthly Research Performance Progress Reports. The goal of this project is to develop an improved cement for... -
Development of an Improved Cement for Geothermal Wells - 2011 Progress Reports
This submission includes the University of Alaska Fairbanks Monthly Research Performance Progress Reports. The goal of this project is to develop an improved cement for... -
Validation of Innovative Exploration Technologies for Newberry Volcano: Litho...
Validation of Innovative Exploration Technologies for Newberry Volcano: Lithology Reports of Temperature Gradient Wells -
Validation of Innovative Exploration Technologies for Newberry Volcano: Geoch...
Validation of Innovative Exploration Technologies for Newberry Volcano: DOE Geochemistry data from deep wells 55-29 and 46-16 at Newberry 2012 -
Validation of Innovative Exploration Technologies for Newberry Volcano: Repor...
Validation of Innovative Exploration Technologies for Newberry Volcano: Report of 4-D seismic Analysis by Apex HiPoint (Sigma3) 2012 -
Validation of Innovative Exploration Technologies for Newberry Volcano: Raw S...
Validation of Innovative Exploration Technologies for Newberry Volcano: Seismic data - raw taken by Apex Hipoint for 1st test 2012 (data in .ff format)