Datasets
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Utah FORGE: Borehole PSS Tools Status Report
This report summarizes the data quality from the Utah FORGE borehole passive seismic sensors (PSS) tools at well sites 58-32 and 78B-32. Two level Avalon tools were installed on... -
Utah FORGE: Results of Direct Shear Tests on Saturated Joints in Sierra White Granite
This dataset includes an Excel file with the results of direct shear tests to investigate the mechanical and geophysical response of saturated joints. Tests were conducted on... -
WHOLESCALE: Seismic Survey Metadata from San Emidio Nevada 2021
This is a collection of metadata from the 2021 seismic survey at the San Emidio geothermal field in Nevada. In April and May 2021, 37 tri-axial short period seismographs were... -
SMP Preparation, Programming, and Characterization
The problem of loss circulation in geothermal wells is inherently challenging due to high temperatures, brittle rocks, and presence of abundant fractures. Because of the... -
Utah FORGE: 2022 Seismic Workshop Report
Utah FORGE held a two-day seismic workshop on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City, Utah on September 26 and 27, 2022 to share what was learned from the seismic... -
SMP and Fracture Modeling
The problem of loss circulation in geothermal wells is inherently challenging due to high temperatures, brittle rocks, and presence of abundant fractures. Because of the... -
Data of High-Temperature Dynamic LCM Testing Setup
Data from high temperature dynamic sealing tests for various fracture widths, at various temperatures (degrees F), with 5 wt.% bentonite-based mud containing various material... -
Testing LCM on a Large Scale for Geothermal Drilling Applications Using a Novel Experimental Setup
Rheology data obtained from flow loop tests, performed using different lost circulation materials (LCM) to study their effect on fluid rheology and wellbore hydraulics. The... -
SGW paper - Rheological Properties of Drilling Fluids Containing Special Additives for Geothermal Drilling Applications
The paper was presented at the 46th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, February 15-17, 2021. In this study, the... -
Snake River (Idaho) Geothermal Drilling Project: Innovative Approaches to Geothermal Exploration
The goal of our project was to test innovative exploration technologies using existing and new data, and to ground-truth these technologies using slim-hole core technology. The... -
Passive Seismic Emission Tomography Results at San Emidio Nevada
The utility of passive seismic emission tomography for mapping geothermal permeability has been tested at San Emidio in Nevada. The San Emidio study area overlaps a geothermal... -
Utah FORGE: Borehole Sensors and Well Trajectories (April 2022)
This link leads to a webpage with spreadsheets containing seismic borehole sensor locations and well trajectories for wells 56-32, 58-32, 78-32, 78B-32. Each of the files at the... -
Utah FORGE: Deep Wells Water and Gas Sampling with Analyses by ThermoChem (October, 2022)
This data includes a document that describes the effort to collect and analyze water and gas samples from deep Utah FORGE wells 16A(78)-32, 58-32, 56-32 and 78B-32 along with... -
Model results and data for Nontechnical Barriers to Geothermal Development
Data included in this submission support the analysis conducted for the report "Nontechnical Barriers to Geothermal Development" which is linked bellow. These data include... -
Magnetotelluric Data Collected in 2016 over the San Emidio Geothermal Field in Nevada
This data set includes the magnetotelluric (MT) data collected from October 21 to November 9, 2016 over the San Emidio geothermal field in Nevada by Quantec Geoscience USA Inc.... -
Utah FORGE 3-2535: Numerical Modeling of Energized Steel-Casing Source for Imaging Stimulated Zone
This short report details and tests the workflow that will be used to simulate steel well casings in deviated production/extraction boreholes at at the Utah FORGE site.... -
Utah FORGE: Well 58-32 Granite Core Thermal Properties Test Results Report (Oct. 2021)
This is a presentaiton from Metarock Laboratories on the thermal properties of Utah FORGE well 58-32 granite core. The presentation includes pictures of core samples, core...