| Identification of Fracture Flow Pathways at Utah FORGE Following Stimulation Activities in 2022 and 2024 |
Aleta FINNILA |
FORGE |
FORGE, DFN, fracture model, EGS |
Stanford Geothermal Workshop |
2026 |
English |
| Granite Fracture High-Temperature Laboratory Characterization for Utah FORGE |
Wenfeng Li, Luke P. FRASH, Uwaila C. IYARE, Yerkezhan MADENOVA, Bijay KC, Zhidi WU, Megan SMITH, Fan FEI, Kayla KROLL |
FORGE |
Shear Strength, Dilation, Fracture, Permeability, Geochemistry |
Stanford Geothermal Workshop |
2026 |
English |
| Can Hydraulic Fractures in Granitic Rock Remain Permeable Without Proppants? |
Ahmad GHASSEMI, Robert JEFFEREY, Xue Jun Zhou |
FORGE |
Stimulation, hydraulic fracturing, EGS, FORGE, shear slip, dilation, permeability, self-propped, proppant |
Stanford Geothermal Workshop |
2026 |
English |
| Rayleigh-Frequency-Shift Distributed Strain Sensing (RFS-DSS) of Huff-Puff Tests Conducted at Utah FORGE |
Ghoulem IFRENE, Matthew W BECKER, Dana JURICK, Artur GUZIK |
FORGE |
Rayleigh DSS, DTS, near-wellbore compliance, Utah FORGE, cyclic injection, huff-puff tests, EGS, DFOS |
Stanford Geothermal Workshop |
2026 |
English |
| Characterization of Mineral Scales and Corrosion Products at the Utah FORGE Enhanced Geothermal System Laboratory |
Clay JONES, Stuart SIMMONS, Joe MOORE |
FORGE |
Mineral Scale, Corrosion, Fluid Chemistry, Fluid Additives, EGS, SEM, XRD, EDS, XRF |
Stanford Geothermal Workshop |
2026 |
English |
| Predicting Mineralogical Changes and Porosity Alterations in EGS Reservoirs: Insights from Reactive Transport Modeling at the FORGE Site |
Ram KUMAR, Lynn B. MUNDAY, Stuart SIMMONS, Clay JONES, Ming YANG, Ghanshyam NEUPANE, Robert SMITH, Rachael COLLDEWEIH, Travis MCLING, Robert PODGORNEY |
FORGE |
FORGE, EGS, FALCON, Thermal-hydrological-chemical |
Stanford Geothermal Workshop |
2026 |
English |
| Tradeoffs Between Planar and Geologic Discrete Fracture Networks for EGS: Insights from Utah FORGE |
Piyush Kumar KUMAWAT, Lynn Brendon MUNDAY, Robert PODGORNEY, Milind DEO, John MCLENANN |
FORGE |
EGS, Utah FORGE, MOOSE, Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Coupling |
Stanford Geothermal Workshop |
2026 |
English |
| Integrated Diagnostics for Interpreting the Efficiency of the Utah FORGE Enhanced Geothermal System |
Smith LEGGETT, Caio MORAIS DE ALMEIDA, Rion NAKAMOTO, Queen NWABUEZE, Hyojeong SEO, Dana JURICK, Sven HARTVIG, Peter ROSE, David YAW OFORI, Qingwang YUAN Mahmoud ABDELLATIF |
FORGE |
circulation test, fiber optic sensing, chemical tracers, negative tracer test, spinner injection log |
Stanford Geothermal Workshop |
2026 |
English |
| Optimization of Well Trajectory and Stimulation Design for Well 16C(78)-32 to Enhance Multi-Well Connectivity at Utah FORGE |
PeiJian LI, Pengju XING, John MCLENNAN |
FORGE |
enhanced geothermal systems, multi-well connectivity, numerical modeling |
Stanford Geothermal Workshop |
2026 |
English |
| Coupled DFN-Based Hydro-Mechanical Modeling of Hydraulic Stimulation in the Utah FORGE Reservoir |
Matthew MCLEAN, Hafssa TOUNSI, Branko DAMJANAC, Zorica RADAKOVIC-GUZINA, Wei FU, Pengju XING, Aleta FINNILA, Robert PODGORNEY |
FORGE |
Discrete Fracture Network (DFN), Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS), Hydraulic Fracturing (HF), Numerical Modeling, Hydro-Mechanical Coupling. |
Stanford Geothermal Workshop |
2026 |
English |
| Estimating Thermal Breakthrough at Utah-FORGE from a Thermo-Hydraulic Fracture Model Calibrated to Circulation Data |
Lynn MUNDAY, Cornelius OTCHERE, Aleta FINNILA, Som DHULIPALA, Robert PODGORNEY |
FORGE |
discrete fracture network, thermal break through, modeling and simulation |
Stanford Geothermal Workshop |
2026 |
English |
| Coupled THMC Flow-Through Experiments and Decision Analysis of Proppant Performance Under Utah FORGE EGS Conditions |
Bruce MUTUME, Ali ETTEHADI, Terry PALISCH, Wenming DONG |
FORGE |
EGS; Utah FORGE; Proppant Stability; THMC Testing; Ceramic Proppants; AHP Ranking. |
Stanford Geothermal Workshop |
2026 |
English |
| Seismic Monitoring for the Multi-Month Circulation at the Utah Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) |
Kristine PANKOW, Ben DYER, James RUTLEDGE, Dimitrios KARVOUNIS, Elisabeth GLÃœCK, Katherine WHIDDEN, Vanille A. RITZ, Antonnio Pio RINALDI, Federica LANZA, Peter MEIER, and Joseph MOORE |
FORGE |
seismic monitoring, traffic light systems |
Stanford Geothermal Workshop |
2026 |
English |
| Predicting Fracture Intensity and Aperture with Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Utah FORGE |
Khomchan PROMNEEWAT, Zhi YE, Ahmad GHASSEMI |
FORGE |
Fracture Intensity (P32), Fracture Aperture, Machine Learning, Geothermal Wells, Utah FORGE |
Stanford Geothermal Workshop |
2026 |
English |
| Continuum Thermal-Hydraulic-Mechanical Modeling of Long-term Heat Production for the Utah FORGE EGS Concept |
Jonny RUTQVIST |
FORGE |
modeling, geomechanics, THM, Utah FORGE, EGS, heat production, fractures |
Stanford Geothermal Workshop |
2026 |
English |
| Microseismic Plane Fitting at Utah FORGE Using a Bayesian Gaussian Mixture Model |
Nicholas VAN FLEET, Kristine PANKOW, Dimitrios KARVOUNIS |
FORGE |
Utah FORGE, machine learning, microseismicity |
Stanford Geothermal Workshop |
2026 |
English |
| 2025 Update to the Utah FORGE Native State Numerical Model |
Bozo VAZIC, Lynn B. MUNDAY, Ming YANG, Robert K. PODGORNEY |
FORGE |
Enhanced geothermal systems, native state, FORGE |
Stanford Geothermal Workshop |
2026 |
English |
| Microseismic Location in EGS: Comparing Picking-based and Source-imaging Workflows on Downhole DAS Data |
Xiaoming ZHANG, Eyal SHIMONY, Song JUNHAO, Uri WYGODNY, Weiqiang ZHU, Ariel LELLOUCH, Noam Zach DVORY |
FORGE |
enhanced geothermal systems, induced seismicity, microseismic monitoring, distributed acoustic sensing, phase picking, source imaging |
Stanford Geothermal Workshop |
2026 |
English |
| Seismic Reflection Profiling at the FORGE Utah EGS Site |
Miller, John; Allis, Rick; Hardwick, Christian |
FORGE; Geophysical surveys; Seismic reflection surveys; HDR/ |
Seismic reflection surveys; Roosevelt Hot Springs; Milford, Utah; EGS; FORGE |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2018 |
English |
| The Utah Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE): A Dedicated Laboratory for Enhanced Geothermal System Development |
Moore, Joseph; McLennan, John; Pankow, Kristine; Simmons, Stuart; Podgorney, Robert; Wannamaker, Philip; Xing, Pengju; Jones, Clay; Rickard, William |
FORGE; HDR/EGS; Injection testing |
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Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2020 |
English |