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Sedimentary Geothermal Feasibility in Eastern Nevada and Millard County, Utah Well Databases

Published by National Renewable Energy Laboratory | Department of Energy | Catalog Last Checked: April 25, 2026 at 08:42 AM | Dataset Last Updated: May 20, 2024 at 04:51 PM
In order to gather data to assess sedimentary geothermal feasibility in Nevada and Utah, state oil and gas and geothermal databases were serached for well files and well logs. Well data from the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology oil and gas and geothermal databases was mined for the following areas in Nevada: Blackburn oil field, Marys River, North Willow Creek, Tomera Ranch, and Diamond Valley, all in the Elko Basin; Bacon Flat in Railroad Valley; and Steptoe Basin. For Pavant Butte in Utah, the State of Utah Division of Oil and Gas Well File and Well Log Searches were mined for well records in Millard County. Only wells close to Pavant Butte were mined for detailed information, but all Millard County wells are included in the database. Well files were searched for temperature, permeability, pressure information, and formation depth and thickness. Temperature values are uncorrected. Locations for some wells were converted from township and range locations to approximate latitude and longitude using Google Earth and Earth Point grids to locate well pads. If no well pad could be located for a well, the center of the smallest section available (usually partsect) was used as the approximate location.

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description In order to gather data to assess sedimentary geothermal feasibility in Nevada and Utah, state oil and gas and geothermal databases were serached for well files and well logs. Well data from the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology oil and gas and geothermal databases was mined for the following areas in Nevada: Blackburn oil field, Marys River, North Willow Creek, Tomera Ranch, and Diamond Valley, all in the Elko Basin; Bacon Flat in Railroad Valley; and Steptoe Basin. For Pavant Butte in Utah, the State of Utah Division of Oil and Gas Well File and Well Log Searches were mined for well records in Millard County. Only wells close to Pavant Butte were mined for detailed information, but all Millard County wells are included in the database. Well files were searched for temperature, permeability, pressure information, and formation depth and thickness. Temperature values are uncorrected. Locations for some wells were converted from township and range locations to approximate latitude and longitude using Google Earth and Earth Point grids to locate well pads. If no well pad could be located for a well, the center of the smallest section available (usually partsect) was used as the approximate location.
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    "title": "Bacon Flat Well Data.zip",
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    "description": "Includes an excel spreadsheet with NBMG well file search results, download links, and temperature, formation tops, permeability (if available), thickness, and other information pulled from well files. Also included in the spreadsheet is a plot of temperature versus depth for each well and a list of prospects for reopening or deepening. The archive also contains a pdf list of results from the NBMG Oil and Gas well file search, and a csv version of the data."
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    "description": "Includes an excel spreadsheet with NBMG well file search results, download links, and temperature, formation tops, permeability (if available), thickness, and other information pulled from well files. Also included in the spreadsheet is a plot of temperature versus depth for each well and a list of prospects for reopening or deepening. The archive also contains a pdf list of results from the NBMG Oil and Gas well file search, and a csv version of the data."
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    "description": "Includes an excel spreadsheet with NBMG well file search results, download links, and temperature, formation tops, permeability (if available), thickness, and other information pulled from well files. Also included in the spreadsheet is a plot of temperature versus depth for each well and a list of prospects for reopening or deepening. The archive also contains a pdf list of results from the NBMG Oil and Gas and Geothermal well file searches, and csv versions of the data."
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    "description": "Includes an excel spreadsheet with NBMG well file search results, download links, and temperature, formation tops, permeability (if available), thickness, and other information pulled from well files. Also included in the spreadsheet is a plot of temperature versus depth for each well and a list of prospects for reopening or deepening. The archive also contains a pdf list of results from the NBMG Oil and Gas well file search, and a csv version of the data."
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    "description": "Includes an excel spreadsheet with State of Utah Oil and Gas Well File search results, download links, and temperature, formation tops, permeability, thickness, and other information pulled from well files for wells near Pavant Butte. Also included in the spreadsheet is a plot of temperature versus depth for each well and a list of prospects for reopening or deepening. The archive also contains a pdf list of results from State of Utah Oil and Gas well file search, a csv version of the data, and the well file for Pavant Butte No. 1."
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    "title": "Steptoe Basin Well Data.zip",
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    "accessURL": "https://gdr.openei.org/files/1223/Steptoe%20Basin.zip",
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    "description": "Includes an excel spreadsheet with NBMG well file search results, download links, and temperature, formation tops, permeability (if available), thickness, and other information pulled from well files. Also included in the spreadsheet is a plot of temperature versus depth for each well and a list of prospects for reopening or deepening. The archive also contains a pdf list of results from the NBMG Oil and Gas and Geothermal well file searches, and csv versions of the data."
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    "title": "Tomera Ranch Well Data.zip",
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    "accessURL": "https://gdr.openei.org/files/1223/TomeraRanch.zip",
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    "description": "Includes an excel spreadsheet with NBMG well file search results, download links, and temperature, formation tops, permeability (if available), thickness, and other information pulled from well files. Also included in the spreadsheet is a plot of temperature versus depth for each well and a list of prospects for reopening or deepening. The archive also contains a pdf list of results from the NBMG Oil and Gas well file searches (queried keywords Hay Ranch, Pine Valley, and Tomera Ranch), a csv version of the data, and a cross-section found in one of the well files."
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    "title": "Diamond Valley Well Data.zip",
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    "description": "Includes an excel spreadsheet with NBMG well file search results, download links, and temperature, formation tops, permeability (if available), thickness, and other information pulled from well files. Also included in the spreadsheet is a plot of temperature versus depth for each well and a list of prospects for reopening or deepening. The archive also contains a pdf list of results from the NBMG Oil and Gas well file search, and a csv version of the data."
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    "title": "Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Geothermal Well Search",
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    "description": "Link to NBMG Geothermal Well Information page where Nevada well data was sourced from. Geothermal wells may be searched API. See Excel spreadsheet for full list of Nevada's geothermal wells."
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    "description": "Link to NBMG Oil and Gas Well Search page where Nevada well data was sourced from. Oil and Gas logs are in a variety of formats such as PDF, TIFF, JPEG, and software-specific formats and are provided in the format which they were scanned. Some files are duplicated in different formats. Many of these files, especially the log files, are very large. For example, some of the full-color log files in TIFF format are several hundred megabytes in size. You may need special viewing software for some of these files."
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    "title": "State of Utah Oil and Gas Well File Search",
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    "description": "Link to Utah Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining Oil and Gas Well File Search where Millard County well data were sourced from. "
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DOI 10.15121/1637461
identifier https://data.openei.org/submissions/7354
issued 2019-11-30T07:00:00Z
keyword 
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  "Bacon Flat",
  "Black Rock Desert",
  "Blackburn",
  "Diamond Valley",
  "Elko Basin",
  "Marys River",
  "Millard County",
  "N. Willow Creek",
  "North Willow Creek",
  "Pavant Butte",
  "Railroad Valley",
  "SedGeo",
  "Steptoe Basin",
  "Tomera Ranch",
  "depth",
  "energy",
  "feasibility",
  "formation",
  "geothermal",
  "permeability",
  "sedimentary",
  "sedimentary basin",
  "temperature",
  "well data"
]
landingPage https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/1223
license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
modified 2024-05-20T16:51:13Z
programCode 
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projectLead Mike Weathers
projectNumber FY20 AOP 3131
projectTitle Sedimentary Geothermal Feasibility
publisher 
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  "name": "National Renewable Energy Laboratory",
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title Sedimentary Geothermal Feasibility in Eastern Nevada and Millard County, Utah Well Databases

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