Meager Creek geothermal project: an exploration case history
Abstract
The South Reservoir in the Meager Creek Geothermal Area is within crystalline basement rocks on the southern flank of the Pliocene to Recent Meager Mountain Volcanic Complex. Geological, geochemical and resistivity surveys were used to determine targets for temperature gradient diamond drilling. Temperature profiles indicate anomously high temperature gradients in drill holes M2, M3, M4, M6, M7, M8, M10, M11 and M12. Heat flow values of 105 to 620 mWm/sup -2/ (2.5 to 14.8 HFU) have been calculated for drill holes M2, M3, M7, M8, M11 and M12; these values are up to seven times the regional heat flow for the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt. The main South Reservoir thermal anomaly has been defined over an area about 3 km by 1 km in the Meager Creek valley and is open to the north and southeast. Deep drilling and production testing to assess the reservoir as a potential power source will be initiated during 1981.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 5109828
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-810572-
Journal ID: CODEN: RGRCD
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Journal Name:
- Geotherm. Resour. Counc., Spec. Rep.; (United States)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 10; Conference: Geothermal Resources Council symposium, Portland, OR, USA, 19 May 1981
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 15 GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; CANADA; GEOTHERMAL EXPLORATION; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEYS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GEOLOGY; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS; HEAT FLOW; RESISTIVITY SURVEYS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; WELL DRILLING; DRILLING; ELECTRICAL SURVEYS; EXPLORATION; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS; NORTH AMERICA; SURVEYS; 150300* - Geothermal Exploration & Exploration Technology
Citation Formats
Fairbank, B D, Openshaw, R E, Souther, J G, and Stauder, J J. Meager Creek geothermal project: an exploration case history. United States: N. p., 1981.
Web.
Fairbank, B D, Openshaw, R E, Souther, J G, & Stauder, J J. Meager Creek geothermal project: an exploration case history. United States.
Fairbank, B D, Openshaw, R E, Souther, J G, and Stauder, J J. 1981.
"Meager Creek geothermal project: an exploration case history". United States.
@article{osti_5109828,
title = {Meager Creek geothermal project: an exploration case history},
author = {Fairbank, B D and Openshaw, R E and Souther, J G and Stauder, J J},
abstractNote = {The South Reservoir in the Meager Creek Geothermal Area is within crystalline basement rocks on the southern flank of the Pliocene to Recent Meager Mountain Volcanic Complex. Geological, geochemical and resistivity surveys were used to determine targets for temperature gradient diamond drilling. Temperature profiles indicate anomously high temperature gradients in drill holes M2, M3, M4, M6, M7, M8, M10, M11 and M12. Heat flow values of 105 to 620 mWm/sup -2/ (2.5 to 14.8 HFU) have been calculated for drill holes M2, M3, M7, M8, M11 and M12; these values are up to seven times the regional heat flow for the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt. The main South Reservoir thermal anomaly has been defined over an area about 3 km by 1 km in the Meager Creek valley and is open to the north and southeast. Deep drilling and production testing to assess the reservoir as a potential power source will be initiated during 1981.},
doi = {},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5109828},
journal = {Geotherm. Resour. Counc., Spec. Rep.; (United States)},
number = ,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1981},
month = {Fri May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1981}
}