Gulf Coast Geopressured-Geothermal Program Summary Report Compilation, Volume V

Technical Report · Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1998

OSTI ID:1664

The primary goals of the U.S. Department of Energy's geopressured-geothermal energy program were to define the extent of the geopressured reservoirs; determine the technical feasibility of reservoir development; establish the economics of production; identify and mitigate adverse environmental impacts; identify and resolve legal and institutional barriers; and determine the viability of commercial exploitation of this resource. The Gulf Coast Geopressured-Geothermal Program determined the following: (1) high brine flow rates can be obtained for long periods of time; (2) after gas extraction, brine can be successfully reinjected into shallow aquifers without affecting the surface waters or the fresh water aquifers; (4) no observable subsidence or microseismic activity was induced as a result of the subsurface injection of the brine; (5) sanding can be controlled by reducing flow rates, corrosion can be controlled with inhibitors, and scaling can be controlled with phosphonate scale inhibitors; and (6) production of gas from saturated brine under pressure is viable.

• Research Organization: USDOE Idaho Operations Office, Idaho Falls, ID (US); Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Geothermal Technologies (EE-12) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: FG07-95ID13366
• OSTI ID: 1664
• Report Number(s): DOE/ID/13366
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

03 NATURAL GAS
15 GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
AQUIFERS
BRINE
BRINES
CORROSION
CORROSION INHIBITORS
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
FLUID INJECTION
GEOPRESSURED RESERVOIR
GEOPRESSURED SYSTEMS
GEOTHERMAL
GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS
Geothermal Legacy
NATURAL GAS DEPOSITS
RESOURCE ASSESSMENT
RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
SCALE
SCALE CONTROL
US GULF COAST