Preliminary environmental analysis of a geopressured-geothermal test well in Brazoria County, Texas
Preliminary environmental data, including current land use, substrate lithology, soils, natural hazards, water resources, biological assemblages, meteorological data, and regulatory considerations have been collected and analyzed for approximately 150 km/sup 2/ of land near Chocolate Bayou, Brazoria County, Texas, in which a geopressured-geothermal test well is to be drilled in the fall of 1977. The study was designed to establish an environmental data base and to determine, within spatial constraints set by subsurface reservoir conditions, environmentally suitable sites for the proposed well. Preliminary analyses of data revealed the eed for focusing on the following areas: potential for subsidence and fault activation, susceptibility of test well and support facilities to fresh- and salt-water flooding, possible effects of produced saline waters on biological assemblages and groundwaer resources, distribution of expansive soils, and effect of drilling and associated support activities on known archeological-cultural resources.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Texas, Austin
- OSTI ID:
- 7369263
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-771153-P2-13
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 3. geopressured geothermal energy conference, Lafayette, LA, USA, 16 Nov 1977; Related Information: In: Third geopressured-geothermal energy conference, by
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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