H32C:
Developments in Geothermal Energy I


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Session ID#: 61989

Session Description:
Geothermal energy, specifically Engineered Geothermal Systems (EGS), offer the potential for a tremendous renewable resource. Exploitation of these geothermal resources is a complicated task requiring understanding of coupled thermal-hydrological-mechanical-chemical response of the rock mass in question to engineered activities such as hydraulic fracturing, and flow of low temperature water through the hot rock mass, interaction with native chemical species, and chemical interaction with the host rock. This session encourages participants to submit research on geothermal technologies, site characterization and geothermal science. Work from field sites, modeling investigations, and laboratory research, at all scales ranging from micro scale to meso scale to field scale are all welcomed.
Primary Convener:  Mathew D Ingraham, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
Conveners:  Hunter Anne Knox, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States and Doug Blankenship, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mathew D Ingraham, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
Chairs:  Mathew D Ingraham, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States and Hunter Anne Knox, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Mathew D Ingraham, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

0915 Downhole methods [EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS]
1822 Geomechanics [HYDROLOGY]
3616 Hydrothermal systems [MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY]
8135 Hydrothermal systems [TECTONOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

An Overview of the Utah Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) (375397)
Joseph Moore, Energy and Geoscience Institute, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and John David McLennan, University of Utah, Department of Chemical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE): U.S. Department of Energy’s Premier EGS Field Research and Test Site (417649)
Zachary Frone, Department of Energy Washington DC, Washington, VA, United States, Lauren Boyd, US Department of Energy, Washington DC, United States and EGS Team of the US Department of Energy
Constraints on geothermal reservoir volume change calculations from InSAR surface displacements and injection and production data (391310)
Joern O Kaven, USGS, Pasadena, United States and Andrew J Barbour, U.S. Geological Survey, Moffett Field, United States
Continuous monitoring in volcanic geothermal fields: integrated observational approach for exploration drilling (437737)
Philippe Jousset1, Kemal Erbas1, Ásgrímur Gudmundsson2, Florian Schäfer1, Jacques Hinderer3, Gylfi Páll Hersir4, Kristjan Agustsson5, Andreas Guntner6, Freysteinn Sigmundsson7, Arthur D Jolly8 and Richard J Warburton9, (1)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Landsvirkjun, Reykjavik, Iceland, (3)CNRS IPGS, Strasbourg, France, (4)Iceland GeoSurvey, Reykjavík, Iceland, (5)Iceland GeoSurvey, Reykjavik, Iceland, (6)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Hydrology, Potsdam, Germany, (7)University of Iceland, Institute of Earth Sciences, Nordic Volcanological Center, Reykjavik, Iceland, (8)U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, Hilo, HI, United States, (9)GWR Instruments Inc, San Diego, CA, United States
The First EGS Collab Testbed at the Sanford Underground Research Facility – Discrete Fracture Network Characterization (457661)
Paul C Schwering1, Doug Blankenship1, Robert K Podgorney2, Ghanashyam H Neupane3, Thomas Doe4, Craig Ulrich5, Patrick F Dobson6, Timothy J Kneafsey6, Ankush Singh7, Megan M Smith8, William Roggenthen9, Nuri Uzunlar9 and EGS Collab Team10, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, United States, (3)Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, United States, (4)Golder Associates Inc., Redmond, IL, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (6)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, (8)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, (9)South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD, United States, (10)EGS Collab Project, Department of Energy, Geothermal Technologies Office, Berkeley, CA, United States
Imaging Hydraulic Fracture Propagation Using Semi-Permanent Continuous Active Seismic Source Monitoring: Results from the DOE EGS Collab Experiment (427377)
Jonathan B Ajo-Franklin1, Martin Schoenball2, Todd Wood3, Michelle Robertson4, Petr Petrov5, Lianjie Huang6, Timothy J Kneafsey5, Paul Schwering7, Doug Blankenship8, Hunter Anne Knox8 and EGS Collab Team, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Geophysics, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (7)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (8)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Microseismic monitoring of meso-scale stimulations for the DOE EGS Collab project at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (441969)
Martin Schoenball1, Jonathan B Ajo-Franklin2, Doug Blankenship3, Paul J Cook4, Patrick F Dobson5, Lianjie Huang6, Timothy J Kneafsey7, Hunter Anne Knox3, Petr Petrov7, Michelle Robertson8, Paul Schwering9, Dennise C Templeton10, Craig Ulrich1, Todd Wood11 and EGS Collab Team, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (2)Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley Nat Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (7)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (8)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, (9)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (10)Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA, United States, (11)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States

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