Lessons from Frontier Exploration at Meager Creek and Pebble Creek, British Columbia, 1971-1992
- Key words
- Canada; British Columbia; Meager Creek; Pebble Creek; Case Histories; Helicopter Support; Diamond Drilling; Electrical Resistivity; Temperatures Gradient; Temperature Surveys; Dipole-Dipole; E-Scan; Hydrology
- Location
- Pebble Creek, Canada; Meager Creek, Canada
- Conference
- Geothermal Resources Council Transactions
- Year
- 1992
- Session
- Exploration; Drilling; Geophysical surveys; Well completion;
- Language
- English
Abstract
B.C. Hydro discovered a large, high temperature geothermal resource in the 1970's and 1980's. Hydro's work spun off some innovations and thinking that are valuable at present: use of helicopter portable diamond drills in sensitive areas, documentation of the overwhelming ground water domain in the Northwest, and the ESCAN resistivity technique. Some mistakes are worth learning from: misuse of slotted liners and an inadvertently ponderous management structure. The timing of several political and economic events had more profound impact on the project that the exploration. Hydro's subsequent abandonment of the project set up the Meager Creek and Pebble Creek prospects for future development by IPP's which are a brand new, vital Canadian industry.
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