Utah FORGE: Reports on Northwestern Nevada Well Doublet Drilling and Testing by Fervo Energy

Dadi, Sireesh; Titov, Aleksei; Norbeck, Jack; Dadi, Sireesh; Voller, Katharine; Woitt, Mark; Fercho, Steven Fercho; McConville, Emma; Lang, Camden; Agarwa, Saurabh; Gradl, Christian; Latimer, Timothy; Latimer, Timothy

doi:10.15121/1999428

Title: Utah FORGE: Reports on Northwestern Nevada Well Doublet Drilling and Testing by Fervo Energy

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These reports review Fervo Energy's construction of a commercial enhanced geothermal system (EGS). Fervo has qualified full functionality of the system through production testing at commercially relevant operating conditions. The project site is located in a nearfield setting adjacent to an operating geothermal power station in north-central Nevada and is designed to deliver an uplift in high-temperature geothermal flow rates to increase the power capacity at the facility. The project involved drilling a first-of-a-kind EGS horizontal doublet well system consisting of an injection and production well pair within a high-temperature hard-rock geothermal formation. The lithology of the target reservoir is characterized as a mixed metasedimentary and igneous formation, comprised of phyllite, quartzite, diorite, and granodiorite, representative of the geology across the most prospective geothermal areas throughout the western US. This work included a 16-stage plug-and-perforate stimulation treatment which was the first of its kind in a high-temperature mixed metasedimentary and granitic formation in a fully horizontal doublet geothermal well.

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Dadi, Sireesh; Titov, Aleksei; Norbeck, Jack; Dadi, Sireesh; Voller, Katharine; Woitt, Mark; Fercho, Steven Fercho; McConville, Emma; Lang, Camden; Agarwa, Saurabh; Gradl, Christian; Latimer, Timothy; Latimer, Timothy

Fervo Energy

Publication Date:: Tue Sep 05 00:00:00 EDT 2023

Other Number(s):: 1530

DOE Contract Number:: EE0007080

Research Org.:: DOE Geothermal Data Repository; Fervo Energy

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Geothermal Technologies Program (EE-4G)

Collaborations:: Fervo Energy

Subject:: 15 GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; Blue Mountain; DFOS; EGS; Fervo Energy; Nevada; Nevada EGS; Utah FORGE; assessment; cross-well strain; distributed fiber optic sensing; doublet well system; energy; enhanced geothermal systems; feasibility; fiber optic sensing; fracing; fracking; geothermal; horizontal doublet; horizontal drilling; plug-and-perf; plug-and-perforation; report; well stimulation

OSTI Identifier:: 1999428

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.15121/1999428

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                    Dadi, Sireesh, Titov, Aleksei, Norbeck, Jack, Dadi, Sireesh, Voller, Katharine, Woitt, Mark, Fercho, Steven Fercho, McConville, Emma, Lang, Camden, Agarwa, Saurabh, Gradl, Christian, Latimer, Timothy, and Latimer, Timothy. Utah FORGE: Reports on Northwestern Nevada Well Doublet Drilling and Testing by Fervo Energy.  United States: N. p., 2023. 
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                    Dadi, Sireesh, Titov, Aleksei, Norbeck, Jack, Dadi, Sireesh, Voller, Katharine, Woitt, Mark, Fercho, Steven Fercho, McConville, Emma, Lang, Camden, Agarwa, Saurabh, Gradl, Christian, Latimer, Timothy, & Latimer, Timothy. Utah FORGE: Reports on Northwestern Nevada Well Doublet Drilling and Testing by Fervo Energy.  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.15121/1999428

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                    Dadi, Sireesh, Titov, Aleksei, Norbeck, Jack, Dadi, Sireesh, Voller, Katharine, Woitt, Mark, Fercho, Steven Fercho, McConville, Emma, Lang, Camden, Agarwa, Saurabh, Gradl, Christian, Latimer, Timothy, and Latimer, Timothy. 2023.  
"Utah FORGE: Reports on Northwestern Nevada Well Doublet Drilling and Testing by Fervo Energy".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.15121/1999428.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1999428. Pub date:Tue Sep 05 00:00:00 EDT 2023

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  title        = {Utah FORGE: Reports on Northwestern Nevada Well Doublet Drilling and Testing by Fervo Energy},

  author       = {Dadi, Sireesh and Titov, Aleksei and Norbeck, Jack and Dadi, Sireesh and Voller, Katharine and Woitt, Mark and Fercho, Steven Fercho and McConville, Emma and Lang, Camden and Agarwa, Saurabh and Gradl, Christian and Latimer, Timothy and Latimer, Timothy},

  abstractNote = {These reports review Fervo Energy's construction of a commercial enhanced geothermal system (EGS). Fervo has qualified full functionality of the system through production testing at commercially relevant operating conditions. The project site is located in a nearfield setting adjacent to an operating geothermal power station in north-central Nevada and is designed to deliver an uplift in high-temperature geothermal flow rates to increase the power capacity at the facility. The project involved drilling a first-of-a-kind EGS horizontal doublet well system consisting of an injection and production well pair within a high-temperature hard-rock geothermal formation. The lithology of the target reservoir is characterized as a mixed metasedimentary and igneous formation, comprised of phyllite, quartzite, diorite, and granodiorite, representative of the geology across the most prospective geothermal areas throughout the western US. This work included a 16-stage plug-and-perforate stimulation treatment which was the first of its kind in a high-temperature mixed metasedimentary and granitic formation in a fully horizontal doublet geothermal well.},

  doi          = {10.15121/1999428},

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  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Tue Sep 05 00:00:00 EDT 2023},

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