Roosevelt Hot Springs/Hot Dry Rock Prospect and Evaluation of the Acord 1-26 Well
- Key words
- Exploration; USA; Utah; Roosevelt Hot Springs; Seismicity; Heat Flow; Basaltic; Rhyolitic; Domes; Tertiary; Stored Heat; Basement Structure; Shallow Aquifers; Hydrofracture; Fracture Density; Opal Mound Fault
- Location
- Roosevelt Hot Springs, Utah
- Conference
- Geothermal Resources Council Transactions
- Year
- 1983
- Session
- HDR/EGS; Exploration; Drilling; Temperature gradients; Well
- Language
- English
Abstract
Previous hot, dry rock (HDR) geothermal resource evaluation efforts have identified the Roosevelt Hot Springs KGRA as a prime HDR target. The size of the HDR resource is estimated to be at least eight times larger that the adjacent hydrothermal resource. Further research activities to evaluate this HDR resource have involved review of data from the Acord hot dry well, the seismic structure of the area, fluid geochemistry, and hydrology of a shallow aquifer. These recent results are summarized and the most likely HDR prospect area is identified.
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