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Federal
Improved Microseismicity Detection During Newberry EGS Stimulations
Department of Energy —
Effective enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) require optimal fracture networks for efficient heat transfer between hot rock and fluid. Microseismic mapping is a key... -
Federal
Chemical Impact of Elevated CO2 on Geothermal Energy Production
Department of Energy —
Numerical simulations have shown that the use of supercritical CO2 instead of water as a heat transfer fluid yields significantly greater heat extraction rates for... -
Federal
Modeling Responses of Naturally Fractured Geothermal Reservoir to Low-Pressure Stimulation
Department of Energy —
Hydraulic shearing is an appealing reservoir stimulation strategy for Enhanced Geothermal Systems. It is believed that hydro-shearing is likely to simulate a fracture... -
Federal
Applications of Geothermally-Produced Colloidal Silica in Reservoir Management - Smart Gels
Department of Energy —
In enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) the reservoir permeability is often enhanced or created using hydraulic fracturing. In hydraulic fracturing, high fluid pressures... -
Federal
Active Management of Integrated Geothermal-CO2 Storage Reservoirs in Sedimentary Formations
Department of Energy —
The purpose of phase 1 is to determine the feasibility of integrating geologic CO2 storage (GCS) with geothermal energy production. Phase 1 includes reservoir... -
Federal
Newberry EGS Seismic Velocity Model
Department of Energy —
We use ambient noise correlation (ANC) to create a detailed image of the subsurface seismic velocity at the Newberry EGS site down to 5 km. We collected continuous... -
Federal
Microearthquake Studies at the Salton Sea Geothermal Field
Department of Energy —
The objective of this project is to detect and locate microearthquakes to aid in the characterization of reservoir fracture networks. Accurate identification and... -
Federal
Great Salt Lake Composition and Rare Earth Speciation Analysis
Department of Energy —
We have conducted aqueous speciation analyses of the Great Salt Lake (GSL) brine sample (Table 1) and a mock geo sample (Table 2) spiked with 1 ppb Tb and 100 ppb Tb.... -
Federal
Simulating Complex Fracture Systems in Geothermal Reservoirs Using an Explicitly Coupled Hydro-Geomechanical Model
Department of Energy —
Low permeability geothermal reservoirs can be stimulated by hydraulic fracturing to create Enhanced (or Engineered) Geothermal Systems (EGS) with higher permeability...