Desert Peak Geothermal Field Performance
- Key words
- Reservoir Engineering; Well Testing; Nevada; Churchill; Desert Peak; Flow Tests; Fluid and Heat Flow; Temperature; Two Phase; Surveys
- Location
- Desert Peak, Nevada
- Conference
- Geothermal Resources Council Transactions
- Year
- 1987
- Session
- Geothermal overviews
- Language
- English
Abstract
The Desert Peak geothermal field, located in Churchill County, Nevada, is generating 9 Mwe sing two production wells and one injection well. The dual flash power plant started operation in December 1985, with two producers supplying 980,000 lbm/hr of brine. Pressure transient testing has revealed well performance is influenced by the different lkithologies present. The reservoir has shown no signs of depletion in one and a half years of production. Repeated temperature surveys since the start of production suggest higher temperature fluids from the deeper system may be charging the shallow reservoir in the vicinity of the producing wells with measured temperatures approaching the deeper reservoir temperature predicted by geochemistry.
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