Alphine 1/Federal: Drilling report. Final report, Part 1

Technical Report · Wed Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1994

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10178173· OSTI ID:10178173

Witcher, J C ^[1]; Pisto, L ^[2]; Hahman, W R ^[3]; Swanberg, C A ^[4]

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1. New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM (United States). Southwest Technology Development Inst.
2. Tonto Drilling Services, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
3. Hahman (W. Richard), Las Cruces, NM (United States)
4. Swanberg (Chandler A.), Phoenix, AZ (United States)

Regional geologic and geophysical surveys, shallow temperature-gradient drilling, and published reconnaissance geothermal studies infer possible hot dry rock (HDR) geothermal resources in the Alpine-Springerville area. This report discusses the results of a State of Arizona and US Department of Energy funded drilling project designed to gather the deep temperature and stratigraphic data necessary to determine if near-term HDR geothermal potential actually exists in this portion of the White Mountains region of Arizona. A 4505 feet deep slim-hole exploratory well, Alpiner/Federal, was drilled within the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest at Alpine Divide near the Alpine Divide Camp Ground about 5 miles north of Alpine, Arizona in Apache County (Figure 1).

• Research Organization: Arizona Energy Office, Phoenix, AZ (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG04-91AL73394
• OSTI ID: 10178173
• Report Number(s): DOE/AL/73394--T1-Pt.1; ON: DE94017949; BR: AM1002000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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