WELL TEST RESULTS OF EXPLORATION DRlLLlNC AT NEWBERRY CRATER, OREGON IN 1995
- Key words
- Newberry
- Location
- Newberry Volcano, Oregon
- Conference
- Stanford Geothermal Workshop
- Year
- 1998
- Session
- FIELD STUDIES
- Language
- English
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Abstract
In I995 CalEnergy Exploration (CEE) drilled four exploration wells on the western flank of the Newberry Volcano in central Oregon. USA. Two of
the wells are coreholes and two are full sized wells. The two deep full sized wells penetrated high temperature formation with very low permeability.
Temperatures as high as 600?F were encountered below 9000 feet. However, bulk permeability was 0 .3 millidarcy, and neither well was able to sustain flow. CEE determined that a commercial geothermal resource does not exist outside the west boundary of the Newbery, National Monument.
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