| De-Risking Geothermal for Direct-Use Heating in North America: Lessons Learned from Europe |
Veeger, Floris; Brasnett, Gord; Claringbould, Han |
Economics; Risk management; Direct use |
Direct-Use, Innovation, De-risking, Low Temperature Geothermal |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2023 |
English |
| Repurposing Inactive Oil and Gas Wells for Sustainable Geothermal Energy Production: A Case Study in Oklahoma |
Vivas, Cesar; Salehi, Saeed |
Oil and gas reservoirs; Repurposed wells; Direct use |
Abandoned oil & gas wells, geothermal energy, direct use, reservoir simulation, energy extraction |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2023 |
English |
| Faults, Fractures, Formation, and Stress at Fish Lake: Controls on Wellbore-Scale Permeability in a Deep Circulation Geothermal System |
Wallis, Irene; Milton, Alex; Brown, Zach; Davis, Leland; Casteel, John; Peters, Brad |
Well logging; Well testing; |
Borehole Image, Microresistivity Image, Permeability, Stress |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2023 |
English |
| The Geothermal Exploration in the Last Decade at the Metamorphic Region in Northeastern Taiwan |
Wang, Chyi; Song, Sheng-Rong |
Exploration; HDR/EGS |
Geothermal exploration; Metamorphic Region; EGS; Taiwan |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2023 |
English |
| Enhanced Sweep Efficiency in EGS Using a Bio-polymer Supplement from Over Fractured Oil/Gas Operations |
Wang, Dongmei; Ji, Yun; Gosnold, Will; Alamooti, Moones; Namie, Shane; Oni, Olufemi |
HDR/EGS; Fractures |
Sweep efficiency, fracture, bio-polymer, geothermal |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2023 |
English |
| Connecting People to Data: Enabling Data Connected Communities through Enhancements to the Geothermal Data Repository |
Weers, Jon; Anderson, Arlene; Taverna, Nicole |
Databases; Machine learning |
Geothermal, data, repository, management, improvements, community, people, industry,_x000d_
engagement, features, enhancements, open, access, GDR, OpenEI, DOE, collaboration,_x000d_
discoverability, usability, accessibility, innovation, submission, metada |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2023 |
English |
| Innovations in Geothermal Power based on the Commissioning and Testing Results of Sage Geosystems’ sCO2 Prototype Turbine |
Kerr, Thomas; Klaerner, John; Nielson, Jordan; Weiss, Nathan |
Equipment design; Turbines; Supercritical fluids |
Supercritical CO2 (sCO2), sCO2 Turbine, sCO2 Power Cycle, Flow Loop |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2023 |
English |
| Assessment for Medium-Depth Geothermal Energy Utilization in Germany – First Results from the ArtemIS Project |
Weydt, Leandra M.; Agemar, Thorsten; Bär, Kristian; Erb, Michael; Dobrzinski, Nicole; Mantei, Niklas; Moeck, Inga; Singh, Mrityunjay; Sperlich, Sebastian; van der Vaart, Jeroen; Weber, Josef; Sass, Ingo |
Exploration; Reservoir modeling; Databases |
Medium-depth geothermal resources, GeotIS, heat transition, reservoir assessment |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2023 |
English |
| Epithermal Mineral Deposits within Geothermal Systems |
Wood, John D. |
Exploration; Geological surveys; Mineralogy |
Epithermal Minerals, Geothermal, Exploration, Discoveries, Methodologies |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2023 |
English |
| Exploration Drilling in Geothermal Fields for Beginners |
Wood, John D. |
Exploration; Drilling; Blowouts |
Drill Safety, Blow-Out Prevention, Artesian Water Avoidance, Hole Plugging |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2023 |
English |
| A Subsurface Fracture Characterization Case Study from Utah FORGE Enhanced Geothermal System |
Wray, Andy; Borchardt, Erik; Velez, Edgar; Haddad, Elia |
Reservoir modeling; Fractures; FORGE |
FORGE, logging, fracture characterization, borehole image |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2023 |
English |
| Fracture Characterization by Temperature Log Interpretation Based on Machine Learning |
Yang, Xiaoyu; Tartakovsky, Daniel M.; Horne, Roland N. |
Machine learning; Fractures |
Fracture detection; DTS; Machine learning |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2023 |
English |
| Laboratory Testing of a Novel Packer Instrumentation for EGS Applications |
Esquitin, Yosafat; Ghassemi, Ahmad; Hemami, Behzad; de Queiroz, Leonardo Rocha; Teodoriu, Catalin; Velasquez, Ricardo; Ye, Zhi |
Equipment design; Packers; HDR/EGS; FORGE |
Prototype Packer, Laboratory Testing, Packer, Zonal Isolation, EGS |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2023 |
English |
| The Cooling Effect on In-situ Stress Determination Using DFIT |
Ye, Zhi; Ghassemi, Ahmad |
HDR/EGS/ FORGE; Fractures; Stress fields |
EGS, In-situ Stress, DFIT, Cooling, Fracture Reopening, Fracture Closure |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2023 |
English |
| Eavor-Lite Update After Four Years of Operation |
Zatonski, Vlad; Brown, Colin |
Power plant design and operation; Closed loop power generati |
Geothermal, closed-loop, CLGS, multilateral, load-following, Eavor-Loop, Eavor-Lite, Rock-Pipe |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2023 |
English |
| Quench-Spallation Drilling: A Novel Drilling Head Design for Routine Heat Mining Above the Brittle-Ductile Transition |
Holtzman, B.; Groebner, N.; Mittal, T. |
Drilling; Equipment design; Superhot reservoirs |
Superhot Geothermal, High-temperature Drilling, Quench Spallation Drilling, Deep Heat Mining |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2023 |
English |
| Characterisation of Supercritical Fluid Production in Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ) through Wellbore Modelling and Simulation |
Rivera, Julius Marvin; Carey, Brian; Chambefort, Isabelle |
Supercritical fluids; Reservoir modeling |
Supercritical, Geothermal, Wellbore Modelling, Geothermal: Next Generation, New Zealand |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2023 |
English |
| Diagnosing Common Geothermal Well Challenges With High Temperature, High-Resolution Video Technology |
Waldheim, Johanna; Towers, Jordan; Wilson, Daniel; Winmill, Ralph |
Equipment design; Downhole camera; Well logging |
Downhole camera, Well diagnostics, Logging technology, High Temperature Logging |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2023 |
English |
| Hydraulic Transport Properties of Calcite Bearing Faults with Customized Roughness: Revisiting Hydro-Shear Stimulation Techniques |
Mateo ACOSTA, Robin MAYE, Marie VIOLAY |
Enhanced Geothermal Systems |
fracture flow, hydroshear, roughness and fluid flow |
Stanford Geothermal Workshop |
2022 |
English |
| Optimization of Horizontal Well Fracturing Schemes Under Different Reservoir Barrier Conditions in Tight Conglomerate Reservoirs |
Elyar AHMAD, Xiuhua ZHENG |
Modeling |
hydraulic fracturing, fracture height control, parameter optimization, Mfrac |
Stanford Geothermal Workshop |
2022 |
English |