Recent Results: Los Alamos Bot-Dry-Rock Project
- Location
- Fenton Hill, New Mexico; Valles Caldera, New Mexico
- Conference
- Stanford Geothermal Workshop
- Year
- 1982
- Session
- Petrothermal and Geopressured Energy
- Language
- English
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Abstract
A new deeper reservoir is presently being investigated at the Laboratory's Fenton Hill Hot Dry Rock (HDR) site. The region surrounding the lower of two inclined boreholes, directionally drilled to about 4 km in hot crystalline rock, has been pressurized in a sequence of injection tests. Based primarily on the measurements made by two close-in microseismic detectors, two similar volumetric reservoir regions have been developed by massive hydraulic fracturing, but with no significant hydraulic communication with the upper borehole as yet.
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