Reservoir construction from the Newberry Volcano EGS Demonstration

Trenton T Cladouhos; Susan Petty; Yini Nordin; Michael Moore; Kyla Grasso; Matt Uddenberg; Michael W Swyer

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Sep. 2014

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Trenton T Cladouhos, Susan Petty, Yini Nordin, et al. 2014: Reservoir construction from the Newberry Volcano EGS Demonstration. Journal of Groundwater Science and Engineering, 2(3): 1-7.

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Trenton T Cladouhos, Susan Petty, Yini Nordin, et al. 2014: Reservoir construction from the Newberry Volcano EGS Demonstration. Journal of Groundwater Science and Engineering, 2(3): 1-7.

Trenton T Cladouhos, Susan Petty, Yini Nordin, et al. 2014: Reservoir construction from the Newberry Volcano EGS Demonstration. Journal of Groundwater Science and Engineering, 2(3): 1-7.

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Trenton T Cladouhos, Susan Petty, Yini Nordin, et al. 2014: Reservoir construction from the Newberry Volcano EGS Demonstration. Journal of Groundwater Science and Engineering, 2(3): 1-7.

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Reservoir construction from the Newberry Volcano EGS Demonstration

1AltaRock Energy, Inc. Seattle, WA 98103, USA

Publish Date: 2014-09-28

Abstract

Abstract

The Newberry Volcano EGS Demonstration in central Oregon tests recent technological advances designed to reduce the cost of power generated by EGS in a hot, dry well (NWG 55-29) drilled in 2008. An EGS reservoir was created by injecting large volumes of cold water, causing existing fractures to slip in shear (known as hydroshearing) generating the seismic waves that can be used to map fracture location and size. At the Newberry Demonstration the final injectivity ranged between 1.4 and 1.7 L/s/MPa a ~6x improvement over the initial injectivity of the well. The injectivity improvement and seismic analysis indicate that previously impermeable fractures were enhanced during the NWG 55-29 stimulation.
- EGS,
- Stimulation,
- Hydroshearing,
- Microseismicity

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