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Geothermal Play Fairway Analysis for Low-Temperature Resources in the Denver Basin
Abstract
This dataset is part of an effort to highlight the advantages of incorporating low-temperature (< 150 C) geothermal resource evaluation into the implementation of combined heat and power (CHP), and geothermal direct use (GDU) technologies (e.g., space heating and/or cooling). For this Denver Basin example, resource favorability maps were created to identify potentially favorable areas for further geothermal exploration and are provided here. Favorability was based on three types of data: (1) geologic, (2) economic, and (3) risk. This raw data is also provided below. Geologic data include bottom-hole temperatures (BHT) from oil and gas wells, water co-production volumes from oil and gas wells, well groundwater levels, hot spring locations, temperatures, and chemistries, faults, and earthquakes. Economic feasibility data include population, thermal energy demand, infrastructure, and roads. Risk data (which includes data on excluded areas) include flood plains, protected lands (e.g. wildlife conservation areas, national parks). The included report describes this project in detail, covering workflows, relevant datasets, Python code, and both common and composite maps used to create low-temperature geothermal resource favorability maps for the Denver Basin, which extends across Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming. The figures in this report include: maps of the original datasets; maps of transformed datamore »
- Authors:
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- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Publication Date:
- Other Number(s):
- 1671
- Research Org.:
- DOE Geothermal Data Repository; National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Geothermal Technologies Program (EE-4G)
- Collaborations:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Subject:
- 15 GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; GeoRePORT; PFA; Play Fairway Analysis; Python; colorado; denver basin; earthquakes; economic data; economic feasibility; energy; exploration; faults; favorability; geoPFA; geochemistry; geologic data; geology; geospatial; geothermal; groundwater levels; hot spring locations; low-temperature; resource favoribility maps; risk data; sedimentary basin; thermal; water co-production; workflow
- OSTI Identifier:
- 2448432
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.15121/2448432
Citation Formats
Davalos-Elizondo, Estefanny, Taverna, Nicole, Gold, Abra, Menon, Karthik, and Trainor-Guitton, Whitney. Geothermal Play Fairway Analysis for Low-Temperature Resources in the Denver Basin. United States: N. p., 2023.
Web. doi:10.15121/2448432.
Davalos-Elizondo, Estefanny, Taverna, Nicole, Gold, Abra, Menon, Karthik, & Trainor-Guitton, Whitney. Geothermal Play Fairway Analysis for Low-Temperature Resources in the Denver Basin. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.15121/2448432
Davalos-Elizondo, Estefanny, Taverna, Nicole, Gold, Abra, Menon, Karthik, and Trainor-Guitton, Whitney. 2023.
"Geothermal Play Fairway Analysis for Low-Temperature Resources in the Denver Basin". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.15121/2448432. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2448432. Pub date:Sat Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 2023
@article{osti_2448432,
title = {Geothermal Play Fairway Analysis for Low-Temperature Resources in the Denver Basin},
author = {Davalos-Elizondo, Estefanny and Taverna, Nicole and Gold, Abra and Menon, Karthik and Trainor-Guitton, Whitney},
abstractNote = {This dataset is part of an effort to highlight the advantages of incorporating low-temperature (< 150 C) geothermal resource evaluation into the implementation of combined heat and power (CHP), and geothermal direct use (GDU) technologies (e.g., space heating and/or cooling). For this Denver Basin example, resource favorability maps were created to identify potentially favorable areas for further geothermal exploration and are provided here. Favorability was based on three types of data: (1) geologic, (2) economic, and (3) risk. This raw data is also provided below. Geologic data include bottom-hole temperatures (BHT) from oil and gas wells, water co-production volumes from oil and gas wells, well groundwater levels, hot spring locations, temperatures, and chemistries, faults, and earthquakes. Economic feasibility data include population, thermal energy demand, infrastructure, and roads. Risk data (which includes data on excluded areas) include flood plains, protected lands (e.g. wildlife conservation areas, national parks). The included report describes this project in detail, covering workflows, relevant datasets, Python code, and both common and composite maps used to create low-temperature geothermal resource favorability maps for the Denver Basin, which extends across Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming. The figures in this report include: maps of the original datasets; maps of transformed data and derived parameters (such as the geothermal gradient or thermal conductivity); results of uncertainty analyses; results of data completeness (using the GeoRePORT tool); examples of the data combination and processing (using the geoPFA Python library, which is introduced in the attached report); favorability maps for each criteria; and a final combined favorability map. This project is designed to facilitate future deployment of CHP and GDU by providing data, tools, and a workflow applicable to low-temperature geothermal resources in sedimentary basins.},
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year = {Sat Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 2023},
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