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Vol. 43, No. 5 Bulletin September/October 2014
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Graphic Designer Chi-Meng Moua 28 Membership Benefits - The GRC Advantage Email: [email protected] 31 Publications, Maps & Websites by Ian Crawford The Geothermal Resources Council (GRC) Bulletin (ISSN No. 01607782) is published as a service to its members 34 This Just In! - Late breaking news from the and the public, with six issues per annual volume. The GRC is an international, global geothermal community non-profit educational association whose purpose is to encourage research and environmentally sound exploration, 36 Calendar of Events development, and utilization of geothermal-energy resources worldwide through cooperation with governmental agencies, academic institutions, and 37 Transitions the private sector. The GRC Bulletin provides a forum for information transfer to the public and among professionals in many fields related to geothermal 37 Obituary resources, including geology, exploration, development, electric-power production, and direct-use technologies. The views and opinions expressed by authors in this Advertisers publication do not necessarily reflect those Blackrock Geoscience ...... 8 of the GRC or its members. For changes of address or membership information, Capuano Engineering ...... 42 please contact us. Dewhurst Group...... Inside Back Cover Drill Cool Systems...... 6 Geothermal Resource Group...... Back Cover Geothermal Resources Council GeothermEx, Inc...... 39 P.O. Box 1350 Horizon Well Logging...... 6 Davis, CA 95617-1350 Kenai Drilling...... 37 Phone: 530-758-2360 Oil Well Service Company ...... 8 Fax: 530-758-2839 ORMAT...... Inside Front Cover www.geothermal.org Portland Oregon...... 40 Scientific Drilling ...... 3 ThermaSource...... 10 COVER: The Quellaapacheta fumarole is at 5350 meters Thermochem, Inc...... 4 in the Andes, in southern Perú. The fumarole was found Weatherford Drilling Tools & Fishing on the side of the Ticsani volcano during recognition field Printed with soy-based ink Services ...... 8 work as part of the Quellaapacheta geothermal project. at a facility powered by alternative energy. Weatherford Secure Drilling Services...... 6 This picture was taken in May 2011 by Víctor Vargas Rodríguez/Luis Urzúa of Hot Rock Peru S. A.
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As this is the Bulletin that will be show-cased at the Our Annual GRC Charity Golf Tournament will GRC Annual Meeting in Portland, I would like to take be held on Sunday at Heron Lakes Golf Club, with a this opportunity to welcome you all to the City of Roses. breakfast and lunch provided for our golfer colleagues. I hope you all take full advantage of the many events The Golf Tournament will benefit our GRC Scholarship planned for the geothermal energy event of the year. program and the local chapter of the Make-a-Wish Portland is truly a beautiful city with many things Foundation. The GRC Banquet on Monday evening is to do and places to see so please take the time and planned as a river cruise on the Portland Spirit, a 150’ enjoy Portland and also the entire state of Oregon. yacht, featuring a 3 course sit-down meal with music The state has been in our sights for geothermal and dancing. This will likely be an outstanding event development for many years and now, with recent for all, so plan to attend. development and exploration success, we will see more We have over 150 technical papers scheduled to be and more geothermal opportunities in Oregon. To delivered at the meeting and the GEA Trade Show has mention a few, OIT (Oregon Institute of Technology) over 110 companies presenting at the trade show. On in Klamath Falls is now the only University in the U.S. Tuesday we are planning our GRC Student Luncheon. that is heated and powered by 1.75 MW of electricity We will have at least fifteen geothermal specialists in produced from a geothermal resource directly under various fields of expertise to attend and sit with the their feet. A post-meeting GRC Field Trip will visit the students during lunch. This is a great opportunity for campus. US Geothermal is delivering electricity to the us to share our lives and our experiences with students grid at their Neal Hot Springs project, and Klamath looking to enter the geothermal industry. It is a great Basin Geopower has successfully completed their time for the students to quiz us on anything that second well at its Olene-Poe Valley project. AltaRock they need information on. The GRC Poster Session is continues to work on their EGS project at Newberry, scheduled for Tuesday afternoon and our GRC Annual which will be also be a stop on one of our scheduled Meeting and Awards Luncheon is at 11:30 am on GRC Field Trips. Oregon will be the center of the Wednesday. geothermal world for the near future with so many Aside from news of the Annual Meeting, we are geothermal specialists visiting the area. searching for candidates for our Board of Directors Our Annual Meeting is shaping up to be quite election which will take place in October. This year the event. We have scheduled guest speakers for the we would like to complete our elections earlier than opening session on Monday morning and a very December 31st, as we have scheduled in the past, so informative International Session is planned for that we can inform all new Board members in time so Monday afternoon. Many countries will be giving their they can plan to attend their first meeting. If you are country updates as well as relating opportunities for interested in running for the Board please contact an investment and for providing services. existing Board member or our committee chairman We have four GRC Field Trips planned, for Andy Sabin. geothermal site visitations as well as wine tasting and As always, I would like to thank you all for your sight- seeing. Two GRC Workshops are scheduled participation and assistance in making my term as for the Friday and Saturday before the meeting; President a truly enjoyable time. If I can be of any Introduction to Hydrothermal Systems and Geothermal assistance to you, my door and my phone are always Exploration and Geothermal Leasing, Unitization and Water open. Have a wonderful Annual Meeting and enjoy Use Legal Issues. Portland. n
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The GRC has a long history of cooperating and and studies. All are welcome. communicating with both national and international The East Africa Geothermal Partnership will governmental, institutional and private agencies send at least 15 executives as part of a Power Africa in matters relating to development and utilization Geothermal Roadshow, to attend the meeting. In of geothermal resources and the collection and addition to attending the main conference, the expo dissemination of information related thereto. and social events, they have reserved time to meet with developers and service companies to discuss This is almost a direct quote from the GRC geothermal business opportunities in East Africa. Articles of Incorporation that have been in place for In addition, the Canadian Geothermal over 40 years. The GRC truly is an international Energy Association (CanGEA) is bringing a organization and we would like to provide more group of Canadian small-medium enterprises, services to our international members. municipalities, and other associations on a direct- You should be receiving this Bulletin just before use Geothermal Trade Mission to the Annual or during the GRC Annual Meeting and GEA Expo Meeting, and will visit some of the sites on the GRC in Portland at the end of September. We plan to Fieldtrip to Klamath Falls. showcase our international involvement at this The GRC office is already receiving registrations meeting. The Opening Session will include an from all over the world. We are excited to welcome announcement about the 2015 World Geothermal all of you. Congress in Australia and New Zealand. The Veteran members of the GRC are predicting results of the winner to host the 2020 World that the real growth areas of geothermal over the Congress will also be known by the time we all get next few years will be in countries like Indonesia, to Portland. Kenya, the Philippines and many other countries Also at the Opening Session, seven Canadians around the world. We should all work on this will be honored with a Legacy Award for together for the common good. geothermal contributions primarily in the Pacific Welcome to Portland. Let us know how we can Northwest and Canada. There will also be an help. n International Luncheon just after the Opening Session, open to everyone who has made a reservation. On Monday afternoon there is an exclusively international program that includes speakers from most of the countries around the world with an interest in geothermal development
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Book your Room! Communication The room block at the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower is almost full. Book your room from the GRC now to avoid disappointment! by Ian Crawford, Director of Communications There is a link to the dedicated booking website on the front page of the GRC Annual Meeting web GRC Annual Meeting & GEA Geothermal page at: www.geothermal.org/meet-new.html. Energy Expo Make sure you book through the special website created by the hotels for GRC and GEA – using another method might result in a more expensive rate and GRC Annual Meeting & exposure to possible scams! GEA Geothermal Energy Expo Annual Meeting Venue Achieves Highest Green Standard The Oregon Convention Center (OCC) has achieved Level Four certification for the APEX/
www.geothermal.org www.geothermalenergy2014.org ASTM Standard pertaining to the evaluation and selection of venues for environmentally sustainable Oregon Convention Center meetings, the top mark available. (The facility Portland, Oregon USA already had attained LEED Platinum certification.) September 28 - October 1, 2014 The APEX/ASTM Environmentally Sustainable “Geothermal: A Global Solution” Meeting Standards, administered by the U.S. Convention Industry Council, guide planners and By the time you receive this issue of the GRC suppliers in producing greener events. Bulletin the biggest geothermal event of the year “We are proud and excited to be the first will be just a few short weeks away. It is not too convention center to attain Level Four of the ASTM late to join the global geothermal community in Venue certification,” saidScott Cruickshank, Portland, Oregon. Time to start packing! executive director of the OCC. All the necessary information, including “Certification to the industry’s global standard the Final Program, is available online at www. at its highest level is further evidence of OCC’s geothermal.org ongoing commitment to sustainability.” Register Now! Registration can be made online at: eseries. geothermal.org – look for the link from the front page of the GRC website at: www.geothermal.org – or by completing and returning the Registration Form, also found on the front page of the GRC website. • Current GRC members pay $795 to attend all three days. Non-members pay $895 which includes complimentary GRC partial 2014 and full year membership for 2015. • Students, with current academic identification or class schedule,pay just $5! This also includes the complimentary GRC partial 2014 and full year membership for 2015. Inside the Oregon Convention Center. PHOTO IAN CRAWFORD • One day registration is $470 each day.
September/October 2014 11 • The trip to/from downtown Portland takes about 38 minutes and costs $2.50 for Adults 18-64, $1 for Honored Citizens (65+, Medicare Communication from the GRC or disability) and $1.65 for Youth (7–17 or high school/GED). • You can easily roll your luggage on board. From the Airport • The first train of the day arrives at PDX at 4:44 Portland’s TriMet's MAX Red Line light rail a.m. on weekdays and 4:45 a.m. on weekends. service connects Portland International Airport The last train departs PDX at 11:49 p.m., daily. (PDX), the Lloyd District including the Convention • The MAX station and ticket machines are Center and the Doubletree Hotel, downtown located near baggage claim on the lower level Portland including the Hilton Hotel. Trains run of PDX. about every 15 minutes most of the day, everyday. MAX Red Line Stops: (refer to the map of Service is less frequent in the early morning and Portland City Center for locations) evening. 1. The light rail stop for the Oregon Convention Center is Convention Center MAX Station (Stop ID 8341). Walk about 200 feet to the Convention Center. 2. The light rail stop for the DoubleTree Hotel is Lloyd Center/NE 11th Ave. (Stop ID 8374). Walk about 200 feet to the hotel. 3. The light rail stop for the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower is Pioneer Square North (Stop ID 8383). Walk about 700 feet to the hotel.
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12 GRC Bulletin l www.geothermal.org The Last Time We Were in Portland themed race being held Sunday, September 28 at 9am The GRC last held our Annual Meeting in in a park 4 miles from the Oregon Convention Center. Portland, Oregon in 1996. Over 500 attendees from More information at: www.volcanoracepdx.com 31 countries enjoyed a successful program at the Marriott Hotel (Nowadays we get around 1,500 attendees from 37 countries). The weather was exceptional! The Annual Connect to the GRC On The Go! Meeting started in an Oregon heatwave – 80oC, but o cooled to 73 C by the end. No rain was seen. We have a mobile Although 17 years have passed there is an air version of the GRC of familiarity about the news from that time. The website especially big story in Oregon from the GRC Bulletin was the designed for your decision by CalEnergy Co. to suspend drilling Smartphone or other operations at the Newberry Crater site in central web-enabled device to Oregon. The company drilled two core holes give you easy access to and two deep exploratory wells. Although it was essential information. reported that high-temperatures were encountered, no fractures of note were discovered. Navigate to Now AltaRock Energy is leading the Newberry m.geothermal.org and EGS Demonstration project successfully creating browse information the fractures needed for a geothermal reservoir. A on the GRC Annual GRC Fieldtrip before the Annual Meeting will visit Meeting & GEA Expo, the project on Saturday, September 27. membership benefits, Seventeen years and link to our social ago, the GRC held media websites. a 5K fun run along the Willamette River. The application will be especially useful The years’ winners when attending GRC’s 38th Annual Meeting were Darcell Lahr and the GEA Energy Expo in Portland, Oregon. (womens 30-39), The schedule for each day will be available Carol Burton for easy reference along with biographies of (women 40-39), Jan speakers, a floor plan of the trade show, a list Barboe (women of exhibitors and other important information. 50+), Yoram Bronicki There is even a map and scoring chart for the (men 20-29), Brian Heron Lakes Golf Club, the location for the White (men 30-39), GRC Annual Charity Golf Tournament. Gerry Hunter, Dennis Nielson and Daniel Gerry Hunter (men Smith receiving Fun Run winner awards. 40-49) and Bob With a QR Code reader installed on your Greider (men 60+). Daniel Smith, 8-year old son Smartphone, you can scan the QR code and link of current GRC Events Manager Estela Smith also straight to the GRC website. completed the course! This year, if you’re up for a jog around the neighborhood before the start of the Annual Meeting we would recommend the Volcano m.geothermal.org Race! Yes, a geothermal
September/October 2014 13 Roy L. Mink Cell: (208) 699-4396 Email: [email protected] Communication from the GRC Joseph Moore Phone: (801) 585-6931 Email: [email protected] 2014-2015 GRC Board of Directors William (Bill) Rickard Photos of the Board of Directors can be seen on the Phone: (760) 341-0186 GRC website at: www.geothermal.org/bod.html Email: [email protected] Louis E. Capuano, Jr. (President) Andrew Sabin Phone: (707) 595-8742 Phone: (760) 939-4061 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Paul Brophy (President-Elect) Lisa Shevenell Phone: (707) 544-0955 Phone: (775) 240-7323 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Richard Campbell (Past President) Elaine Sison-Lebrilla Phone: (303) 805-5773 Phone: (916) 732-7017 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Tonya (Toni) Boyd Gene Suemnicht Phone: (541) 885-1751 Phone: (707) 595-8761 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Louis Capuano III Karl F. Urbank Phone: (707) 595-8740 Phone: (707) 431-6034 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Anna Carter Charlene L. Wardlow Phone: (530) 736-2299 Phone: (775) 356-9029 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Dennis J. Gilles Shigeto Yamada Phone: (707) 953-8236 Phone: 81-44-329-2123 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Patrick Hanson Anna Crowell Phone: (281) 443-3300 Ex officio Student Member Email: [email protected] Phone: (701) 740-3051 Stuart Johnson Email: [email protected] Phone: (775) 440-0383 ~~~~~~~ Email: [email protected] More information on the GRC Annual Dennis Kaspereit Meeting & GEA Expo can be found at: Phone: (646) 829-3957 http://www.geothermal.org/meet-new.html. Email: [email protected] Check back online for the most up-to-date information. James W. Lovekin Register now using the GRC Annual Meeting Phone: (510) 898-3112 Registration Form available on the GRC website at: www. Email: [email protected] geothermal.org/meet-new.html OR Register Online at: https://eseries.geothermal.org/ n
14 GRC Bulletin l www.geothermal.org • University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Inside WI • The Pennsylvania State University, University Geothermal Park, PA • The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory NORTH AMERICA Berkeley, CA • California State University Long Beach, Long The Geothermal Technologies Office Invests an Beach, CA Additional $18 Million in Innovative Projects • Cornell University, Ithaca, NY In the last GRC Bulletin we reported that the U.S. • The Board of Regents of the University of Department of Energy (DOE) had awarded $31 Oklahoma, Norman, OK Million to establish the initial phases of the Frontier • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy Berkeley, CA (FORGE). • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, In early August the DOE Geothermal NM Technologies Office (GTO) announced up to $18 • Array Information Technology, Greenbelt, MD million for another 32 projects that will advance • Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of geothermal energy development in the United Nevada, Reno, NV States. • Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM The selected projects target research and development in three technology areas: 2. Play Fairway Analysis FOA Selections 1. Advancing subsurface analysis and Play Fairway Analysis, a subsurface mapping engineering techniques for enhanced technique already used for oil and gas exploration geothermal systems (EGS), ($10 million - 12 identifies prospective geothermal resources in selections) areas with no obvious surface expression. This is 2. Applying a mapping approach called play done by detecting and plotting underground heat, fairway analysis to discover new hydrothermal permeability, and fluid to discover where all three resources, ($4 million - 11 selections) and are most likely to be present together. 3. Accelerating extraction technologies to unlock Eleven awards of up to $500,000 each will apply domestic supplies of critical and other high- this analysis technique to help pinpoint where value materials like lithium while further geothermal energy resources remain hidden beneath developing low- to moderate-temperature the Earth’s surface. Selected projects will study geothermal resources ($4 million - 9 selections). diverse territories across the United States (see map overleaf) – from as far west as Alaska’s Aleutian 1. Integrated EGS R&D Selections Islands chain and Hawaii, to the Cascade Range of The Integrated EGS R&D for collaborative Oregon, the Great Basin in Utah, the Rio Grande enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) research and rift zone, and eastward to the Appalachian Basin in development projects will use novel techniques to the mid-Atlantic region, where lower temperature increase the precision and accuracy of measuring geothermal resources could be tapped in the future. critical underground reservoir properties over time. The resulting regional, basin-scale maps will Project teams will focus on the integration of a serve to quantify and reduce uncertainty for variety of cutting-edge, complementary technologies geothermal energy exploration. By improving and approaches in order to optimize the success rates for exploration drilling, play fairway development and sustainability of EGS reservoirs. analysis could significantly lower the costs of These awards, up to three years in length, will geothermal energy while opening up new areas to initially focus on laboratory feasibility studies – and development. later yield integrated characterization methods and prototypes ready to be validated in the field.
September/October 2014 15 Nine awards ranging from $250,000 to $500,000 will focus on feasibility studies aimed at better Inside understanding extraction technologies and process Geothermal economics, assessing the current critical materials resource base, and researching and developing innovative extraction methods. • Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, AL • Utah State University, Salt Lake City, UT • SRI International, Menlo Park, CA • ATLAS Geosciences Inc., Reno, NV • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, Berkeley, CA NM • University of California - Davis, Citrus Heights, • Cornell University, Ithaca, NY CA • Washington Division of Geology and Earth • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Resources, Olympia, WA Richland, WA • University of Utah/EGI, Salt Lake City, UT • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA • University of California, Davis, Davis, CA • Simbol Materials, Pleasanton, CA • Ruby Mountain Inc., Salt Lake City, UT • Tusaar Corporation, Lafayette, CO • Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV Water Power Being Overtaken by Renewable Energy • University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii – Especially in Western USA The U.S. Energy Information Administration 3. Low-Temperature Mineral Recovery Program reported that April marked the eighth consecutive FOA Selections month that total monthly nonhydro renewable Geothermal brine has the potential to contain generation exceeded hydropower generation. Only a relatively high concentrations of rare earths and decade ago, hydropower—the historically dominant other valuable materials. This targeted initiative source of renewable generation—accounted for three focuses on combining mineral extraction with power times as much generation in the United States as generation as a path to producing commercially nonhydro renewable sources (wind, solar, biomass, viable, low-to-moderate temperature geothermal geothermal, landfill gas, and municipal solid waste). resources, while boosting production of materials Hydropower does exceed nonhydro renewable necessary for manufacturers of clean energy generation in several states, particularly in the technologies and other industries. Northwest, where in 2013 conventional hydropower accounted for 69% and 56% of total electricity generation in Washington and Oregon, respectively. However, the market penetration of other renewables is growing in the United States, particularly in the Midwest and California. Between 2003 and 2013, the number of states for which nonhydro renewable generation exceeded hydropower generation, nearly doubled— increasing from 17 to 33 over this period. The reduction in market share by hydropower is not helped by the ongoing severe drought conditions in the west of the USA.
Project areas for the Play Fairway Analysis COURTESY DOE/EERE
16 GRC Bulletin l www.geothermal.org buildings. And the state nearly takes home the Index triple crown, finishing a very close #2 in the Policy and Capital categories. As in 2013, California is also home to five of the top seven cities in the Metro index: San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, Sacramento, and Los Angeles.
Enel Green Power Could Sell Stake in U.S. Geothermal Plants Italy’s Enel Green Power (EGP) is seeking to sell a minority stake in its North American renewables portfolio including some geothermal energy plants, reports ReCharge News. Newly-installed CEO Francesco Venturini said the group has begun sounding out buyers for a The National Drought Mitigation Center documents the extent of possible minority equity stake in a package of wind, drought conditions in the western USA, including historically strong solar, hydro and geothermal capacity. hydropower states such as Oregon and Washington. COURTESY NATIONAL According to its website Enel Green Power DROUGHT MITIGATION CENTER North America is a leading owner and operator of 72 MW in geothermal energy: the 25 MW Cove Fort geothermal plant in Utah, the 33 MW Stillwater geothermal plant in Nevada and the 13.4 MW Salt California Leads the Way in Clean Technology – Wells geothermal plant, also in Nevada. Thanks to Renewable Energy Thanks to the Golden State's renewable energy Enel to Share Stillwater Hybrid resources, including geothermal energy, California Solar-Geothermal Lessons remains number one in the USA for clean Enel Green Power (EGP) has entered into a technology for the fifth consecutive year. collaboration agreement with the U.S. National The Environmental Defense Fund reports that in Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Idaho the latest U.S. Clean Tech Leadership Index from National Laboratory (IDN) to further explore Clean Edge, California tops the State Index by a wide the potential of EGP's Stillwater hybrid CSP- margin, scoring 93.7 overall. The Golden State’s geothermal power plant. The three parties have clean-tech prominence is broad and deep; it leads signed a Cooperative Research and Development the Technology category handily and ranks a very Agreement (CRADA) under the oversight of the U.S. close second in both Policy and Capital. Department of Energy Geothermal Technologies With enviable solar, wind, and geothermal Office (GTO). resources, a green-minded populace, and generally According to CSP World the parties will jointly effective policy levers at every level of government, explore and quantify the benefits of integrating California places #1 in all three subcategories different renewable energy technologies at the same of clean technology deployment: electricity, site and paves the way for further innovation into transportation, and energy efficiency/green next-generation geothermal facilities. The 2 MW Stillwater Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Project is currently under construction in Fallon, Nevada and, upon completion, will operate alongside the existing 33 MW Stillwater geothermal power plant, which is already paired with a 26 MW photovoltaic facility. This is the first hybrid plant in the world able to bring together at the same site the continuous generating capacity of binary-cycle, medium-enthalpy geothermal power with solar photovoltaic and solar thermodynamic.
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September/October 2014 17 Terrace Standard reports Borealis received the necessary permits to begin exploration on their Inside Lakelse Geothermal Project back in January to assess Geothermal the possibility of building a 15 MW power plant and a small crew began exploration work in early June. “We're looking for subsurface heat, subsurface water and subsurface rocks with permeability,” said Akutan Geothermal Project Gets Investment Boost Chief Executive OfficerTim Thompson. The city of Akutan is to get a $1 million boost Borealis chief geologist Craig Dunn, said that for a geothermal energy project at the expense of its once people learn a bit more about the zero-emission neighbor, Unalaska. potential and tiny footprint of geothermal projects he gets a positive response. Dunn and his crew have had to approach land owners to ask them for access to private land in some cases, and he has to ensure them that the exploration is non-invasive. “When people hear about the project they tend to agree with it more,” he said. Thompson said there will be two decision points as they proceed with their exploration. Currently they are in the first phase of surface exploration, which will be followed by the initial core hole sample drilling, and then deeper probing with slimholes to try to “touch” the reservoir of hot water Hot Springs Bay Valley, Akutan, Alaska by Amanda Kolker, 2011 GRC deep below the surface. Geothermal Photo Contest Thompson said that they will have hit the $5 KUCB reports the city of Unalaska council million mark on investment by projected end date forfeited a $1 million federal grant for developing of their exploration work which is November 2015, geothermal resources from the Makushin Volcano. so if they don't see a promising configuration of land They will transfer the money to the city of Akutan features and hot water reservoirs then they will pull on the neighboring island of the same name, for a the plug on the project, possibly before that time. geothermal project there. The U.S. Geological Survey in 2012 measured 29 MW of heat steaming from a series of hot springs near sea level near Akutan, a fishing-based island community. Converted into electricity, the heat could produce several megawatts of electricity to power the village’s 44 homes as well as other buildings, including the Trident Seafood processing plant where 1,100 employees turn 3 million pounds of fish daily into goodies like frozen pollock fillets.
Geothermal Exploration Begins in British Columbia Calgary-based Borealis Geopower recently gave an update on what could be From left to right: Borealis GeoPower geoscientist Ashley Derry, Chief Geologist Craig Dunn and University of Victoria summer students Ryan McQueen and Tercio Nunes. COURTESY JOSH Canada's first major geothermal power plant. MASSEY/TERRACE STANDARD. It will be constructed somewhere in the Lakelse Lake area, inland from the port of Prince Rupert in British Columbia
18 GRC Bulletin l www.geothermal.org CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA thousands of homes since October 2013, Geothermal in the Caribbean Gets a Boost was officially opened Major aid agencies in the Caribbean have by the Deputy Prime announced cooperation to develop geothermal Minister, Bill English energy in the region. on August 13. According to Nation News, the Caribbean The Ti Mihi plant, Development Bank, Japan International located north-west Down the Well. Te Mihi geothermal Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Inter-American reservoir, Trupo, New Zealand. Geothermal of Taupō on the drill pipe, 10 ¾ inch perforated liner used Development Bank (IDB) will be working closely in Well # WRK 264, Te Mihi geothermal North Island of New reservoir. Taken by Ross Peden and Zealand, has two 83 to transform the energy landscape in the Eastern entered in the 2012 GRC Photo Contest. Caribbean. MW steam turbines Together, the agencies will support the efforts of which could power more than 160,000 homes. eastern Caribbean states to tackle high energy costs In an exciting promotion, Contact Energy and reduce dependence on fossil fuel-generated is celebrating the event by making the Te Mihi energy by diversifying its energy matrix and geothermal power plant available in Minecraft! promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency. The Memorandum of Cooperation will identify and support programs and projects which explore a joint effort for further introduction of renewable energy and energy efficiency in the eastern Caribbean For those of you who are out of the loop, countries, with special focus on geothermal Minecraft is a wildly popular computer world development. in which players can explore and construct an environment, from simple housing to complex cities. AUSTRALASIA There are also monsters to defend against! Contact has provided access to the Te Mihi Delay to Geothermal Power Plant on Maori Land geothermal power plant through an online portal in Radio New Zealand reports that plans for a new Minecraft. Direct connect to: temihi.me in the game geothermal power station on Tauhara Moana Trust and take a journey to Taupō for an exclusive inside land is unlikely to go ahead for a few years, due look into the geothermal power station. to a reduction in electricity consumption in New “Explore dark production wells deep within Zealand. the earth, or mighty turbines that turn geothermal Contact Energy was to have built a 250 steam into electricity. Learn about this incredible MW power station on the Tauhara geothermal renewable energy source and how it is harnessed to steamfield, north-east of Taupo. This is the second power our cities. The world of Te Mihi in Minecraft stage of the Tauhara project. Stage 1 is operational as offers endless exploration, hidden treasures and the 23 MW binary Te Huka power station. unique discoveries within this New Zealand When the project was first designed, the landmark.” company intended to have the site operational by January next year. But Contact Energy chief executive Dennis Barnes said the market is not right to build the power station and supply and demand figures suggest that an investment is a good few years away. Mr Barnes said the sector believes that geothermal energy is the next most competitive source of electricity supply for New Zealand.
166 MW Te Mihi Power Station Opens The New Zealand Herald reports that Contact The Minecraft Map of Te Mihi. Energy's new $623 million Te Mihi geothermal COURTESY power station, which has been supplying power to CONTACT ENERGY
September/October 2014 19 station generated electricity while in its testing phase. The Te Mihi geothermal power station Inside has now been commissioned, and will increase Geothermal geothermal capacity by an additional net 114 MW.
Petratherm Shelves Paralana Geothermal Project Petratherm has announced an expected $17 Revamped Geothermal Laboratories million write-down of its Paralana project assets in Open for Business South Australia after failing to meet a deadline for a New Zealand’s only full service geothermal and government grant in July, reports Business Spectator. groundwater laboratory, unique in the Southern Despite a seven-month extension on the Hemisphere, opened for business in August after a deadline, the company failed to meet an Australian $4 million 18-month upgrade. Renewables Agency requirement it raise $5 million The 1100 square meter facility, at GNS Science’s from investors. Wairakei campus north of Taupo, houses multiple The missed deadline meant the company specialist laboratories. This includes the New will also not be able to access the $24.5 million Zealand Geothermal Analytical Laboratory, the Renewable Energy Development Program grant for GNS Science Extremophile Laboratory, and other the 7 MW geothermal plant in the Flinders Ranges. specialist analytical facilities. The funds were to be used for a second well As well as servicing the New Zealand for the $62 million Paralana project, which taps geothermal energy industry, the facility assists naturally fractured shales just above the hot geothermal energy development in the Philippines, basement rocks. Indonesia, East Africa, Peru, and Chile. Petratherm executive director Terry Kallis GNS Science is exhibiting at the GEA Geothermal confirmed the lapsed grant meant the company Expo, being held in conjunction with the GRC Annual would be "unable to fund the project in the Meeting, September 28 - October 1 at the Oregon Con- forseeable future". vention Center, Portland, Oregon, USA. Hot Rock Ltd. Reports on a "Difficult Year" Geothermal Contributes 54% of Renewable Energy for the Company in New Zealand In its Annual Financial Report Hot Rock Limited The New Zealand Ministry of Business, of Queensland, Australia reflected on a tough time Innovation and Employment has published Energy for the company, which generally reflects the sorry in New Zealand 2014, which details the supply, state of the geothermal energy industry in Australia transformation and use of all types of fuel in New at present. Zealand. Mark Elliott, Chairman writes "The 2013-14 The contribution of financial year was another difficult year for our renewable sources to the company. In order to survive, the company sold its primary energy supply geothermal projects in Peru and Chile to Energy increased in 2013, from Development Corporation (EDC) for US$3 million, 37.5% in 2012 to 38.2%. and dramatically reduced costs through the closure This was due to increased of all offices and the retrenchment of our staff. geothermal generation, with These actions were necessary as capital markets new plants increasing the and investors continued to ignore the junior end geothermal contribution to 54% of total renewable of the market making it very difficult to raise funds primary energy. or secure new partners to support exploration There was an increase in geothermal programs. generation, from 5,843 GWh in 2012 to 6,053 GWh Furthermore there is continued uncertainty in in 2013. In the 2013 calendar year, geothermal the political and regulatory risk jurisdictions and generation was boosted by the new geothermal its ongoing negative impact on the development and power stations coming online near Taupo. The investment in renewable energy in Australia." Ngatamariki power plant was fully commissioned in 2013 and late in the year, the Te Mihi power
20 GRC Bulletin l www.geothermal.org Geothermal Resource Evaluation Project Maibarara Geothermal Power Plant All Set for Moving Forward 10MW Expansion The American Samoa Power Authority (ASPA) The 20 MWe Maibarara integrated geothermal has teamed up with Quantec Geoscience based power facility in Sto. Tomas, Batangas on Luzon out of Toronto, Canada to look for a source of Island, which started commercial operations early geothermal energy beneath certain parts of the this year, could soon be expanded to address the main island of Tutuila. The hope is that geothermal surge in demand for energy in the Philippines. energy will be able to replace diesel power plants in Inquirer.net reports PetroEnergy Resources the territory, reports Samoa News. Corp., which leads the project vehicle Maibarara ASPA CEO Utu Abe Malae said that Quantec Geothermal Inc. (MGI), will expand the project in “are performing geologic exploration utilizing two phases. geophysical methods that save money and impact “We are expanding Maibarara by 10 MW compared to drilling exploration. The technique is to bring the capacity to 30 MW. Our capital similar to the way a medical doctor uses ultrasound expenditure for that is about $25 million. After that, or magnetic resonance imaging, but on a much we will consider another expansion,” said company grander scale.” vice president Francisco G. Delfin Jr. Quantec Geoscience will be exhibiting at the GEA Work will start within the year so that the Geothermal Energy Expo, being held in conjunction with expansion may be completed by the end of 2015 or the GRC Annual Meeting, September 28 - October 1 at early 2016, he said. the Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon, USA. PetroEnergy Resources president Milagros V. Reyes said that after the 10 MW expansion, another 10 MW in capacity may be added.
Geothermal Energy in Armenia The Republic of Armenia has applied for a grant from the Scaling-up Renewable Energy Program (SREP), one of the funds under the Climate Investment Fund umbrella to develop geothermal energy in the country. To kick-start the process the government intends to contract consulting services American Samoa in the South Pacific for an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment ASIA Study for exploratory drilling at the Karkar geothermal site in the south-east of Armenia, near Geothermal Turbine Companies Consider Merger the border with Azerbaijan. According to The Japan Times Hitachi Ltd.’s chief More information on the Request for Expressions executive officer said he’s open to deeper ties, which of Interest can be found on the Armenia Renewable could include merger talks, with Mitsubishi Heavy Resources and Energy Efficiency Fund website at: Industries Ltd., after the equipment makers failed in http://r2e2.am/en/announcement their bid for Alstom SA’s power business. “We’ve built a relationship with them to talk frankly” about extended partnerships, Hiroaki Nakanishi said. “The possibility of merger discussions shouldn’t be denied.” The turbine makers suffered a setback in June when their joint offer withSiemens AG for the energy business held by France’s Alstom was thwarted by a competing bid from General Electric Co. of the U.S. Mitsubishi Hitachi Systems Americas and Alstom
SA are exhibiting at the GEA Geothermal Energy Expo, Location of Karkar in Armenia being held in conjunction with the GRC Annual Meeting, September 28 - October 1 at the Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon, USA. September/October 2014 21 Making the announcement on the second day of the 1st US-Africa Summit in August, World Inside Bank Group President, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, said the Geothermal new financial commitment was urgently needed to generate more electricity for the people of Africa, 600 million of whom have no access to electricity, despite the fact that Africa possesses some of the AFRICA world’s largest hydropower, geothermal, wind and solar potential, as well as significant oil and natural State Geothermal Firm Established in Tanzania gas reserves. The Tanzanian government has created a new A Power Africa Geothermal Roadshow, company to develop geothermal energy resources in organized by the U.S.-East Africa Geothermal the country. Partnership (EAGP), comprising government Operating as a subsidiary of Tanzania Electric representatives from Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Supply Company (Tanesco), the Tanzania Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, will visit the GRC Geothermal Development Company started Annual Meeting & GEA Expo in Portland, Oregon, operations in July this year, according to the USA, September 28-October 1. The visit will serve Energy and Minerals Minister, Professor Sospeter to showcase opportunities for U.S. geothermal Muhongo. developers in East Africa as well as help identify "We have huge potential in geothermal since market niches for geothermal value chain suppliers. Tanzania has the largest share of the East Africa's Rift Valley system. I should admit that we have delayed to make use of this opportunity," Prof Muhongo said. Prof Muhongo expressed optimism that the country would start generating electricity from geothermal energy within the next two years. The company has identified sites aroundLake Ngozi in Mbeya as being suitable for further exploration.
EUROPE
France Spurs Efficiency, Renewables with $13.4 Billion Energy Plan
Location of Lake Ngozi in Tanzania France’s planned energy law will mobilize about €10 billion (US $13.4 billion) in investment through World Bank Group Commits US$ 5 Billion to Boost tax credits and low-interest loans to spur efficiency Electricity Generation in Six African Countries and development of renewable power including The World Bank Group has committed $5 billion geothermal energy, Environment Minister Segolene in new technical and financial support for energy Royal said. projects in six African countries-- Ethiopia, Ghana, Renewable Energy World reports the law seeks Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, and Tanzania—which have to boost growth and jobs, and reduce bills through partnered with President Obama’s Power Africa energy savings. Measures include tax breaks and initiative. zero-interest loans for renovations to insulate homes.
22 GRC Bulletin l www.geothermal.org Other goals in the law include cutting emissions EDUCATION 75 percent by 2050 and getting32 percent of energy from clean sources such as wind, solar and Call for Abstracts for 2015 Stanford geothermal by 2030, up from about 14 percent in Geothermal Workshop 2012. Abstract submission is now open for the 2015 Stanford Geothermal TECHNOLOGY Workshop. Submissions will close on Tuesday, September 30, 2014. Reykjavik Geothermal Joins Effort to Map The 2015 Stanford Geothermal Ethiopian Volcanoes Workshop will be held January 26-28, Little known volcanoes in theEast African 2015 at the Alumni Center, Stanford Rift Valley are to be explored in a bid to University, California, the same location as in understand the threat they pose to life, livelihood previous years. and the landscape. Icelandic geothermal developer The goals of the conference are to bring together Reykjavik Geothermal will use the information to engineers, scientists and managers involved in help explore for resources. geothermal reservoir studies and developments; The £3.7million project, known as RiftVolc, is provide a forum for the exchange of ideas on the funded by the U.K. Natural Environment Research exploration, development and use of geothermal Council and begins in September. It will build on resources; and to enable prompt and open reporting previous successful studies collaborating with Addis of progress. Ababa University and the Geological Survey of Papers will be presented on recent research Ethiopia in the region. relating to geothermal reservoirs including: The five-year project, focusing on the volcanoes • Case Studies: reservoir response to production, of the Main Ethiopian Rift, will be led by effects of injection, scaling characteristics researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh • Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS): current and Bristol, in collaboration with the Universities of and future activities Cambridge, Leeds, Oxford and Southampton, the • Engineering Techniques: reservoir simulation, British Geological Survey, Addis Ababa University empirical methods, well tests, tracers and the Geological Survey of Ethiopia. Overseas • Field Management: strategies for exploitation, partners include Reykjavik Geothermal, which is injection, scale inhibition part of a multi-billion dollar investment to develop • Exploration: geophysics, geochemistry, the infrastructure to exploit this rich source of geology, heat flow studies, outflows geothermal power. • Drilling and Well Bore Flows: well stimulation, Reykjavik Geothermal has numerous geothermal bore flow modeling, hydro-fracturing, scaling concessions in Ethiopia including the Corbetti • Low Enthalpy Systems: applications of heat Geothermal Power project in Southern Ethiopia. pumps, hot dry rock technology • Geosciences: application of geophysics, geochemistry, thermodynamics and fluid mechanics.
More information can be found on the workshop website at: https://pangea.stanford.edu/ researchgroups/geothermal/stanford-geothermal- workshop n
ASAR interferogram image over the Kenyan section of the Great Rift Valley shows small surface displacements that are not visible to the naked eye of the Longonot Volcano. COURTESY EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY
September/October 2014 23 Finding the Hot Stuff in Oregon
The Geothermal Discovery Well Drilled by Davenport Resources on the Flank of Newberry Volcano by Al Waibel, Columbia Geoscience and GRC Annual Meeting Technical Program Chairman
A pre-Annual Meeting GRC Fieldtrip will visit silicic character of the Holocene lavas. Perceived Cascade Volcanoes including Newberry Crater departing conflicting cultural use of the volcano by various at 8:30 am on Friday September 26. The two-day trip, interests was resolved in 1990 with the passage led by Trenton Cladouhous, Senior Vice President of of the Newberry National Volcanic Monument Research and Development at AltaRock Energy and legislation, which set aside the central part of the David Blackwell, Hamilton Professor of Geothermal volcano, including the caldera and related young Studies at Southern Methodist University, will visit the volcanic vent areas to the north, as a national Newberry EGS Demonstration site including the well monument, to be administered by the U.S. Forest described in this article. More information, including Service. The legislation specifically designated the registration can be found on the GRC Website at: www. area outside the monument as open for timber geothermal.org/Annual_Meeting/fieldtrips.html harvest and for geothermal exploration. Davenport Resources began exploration for ~~~~~~~ geothermal resources on the volcano in 2002. In Newberry Volcano has been the focus for 2008 they drilled two deep exploration wells. One geothermal exploration for more than thirty-five well, NWG 46-16, intersected an active geothermal years. The main attraction for geothermal explorers system. The second well encountered high has been the size of the volcano, the long history temperatures with no fractures capable of flowing of volcanic eruptions on the volcano, and the geothermal fluid. Well NWG 46-16 was opened in September of 2012 to bleed off wellhead pressure. The initial flow through a 4-inch bleed line was non-condensable gases, transitioning to liquid phase. This was the first geothermal discovery well drilled on geothermal leases on Newberry Volcano. A total of four deep exploration test wells have been completed on the upper northwestern flank of Newberry Volcano, two drilled by Davenport (2008) and two drilled by California Energy Company (1994-95) (Figure 2). All four wells exhibited high bottom-hole temperatures, ranging from 550 to 625°F. Well NWG 55-29 was drilled to a measured depth of 10,060 ft. High temperature, brittle Figure 1. Location of Newberry Crater and other volcanic features in Oregon. greenschist facies thermally-metamorphosed rock
24 GRC Bulletin l www.geothermal.org The well was drilled to a measured depth of 11,600 ft., and had an estimated bottom-hole temperature in excess of 316°C (600°F). This well is located within two miles of the caldera boundary. This is the only deep exploration well to have encountered significant evidence of a hydrothermal system. Druze epidote and epidote-quartz crystal clusters were observed in the cuttings at 7,330 ft, 7,360-70 ft, 9,280 ft, 9,350 ft, and 9,400 ft. Significant increases in gasses were observed in these zones, particularly pronounced in the 9,000- 9,500 ft range. Non-thermally degradable lost circulation material (LCM) was intermittently added to the drilling fluid below a 120 bbl mud loss between 8,100-8,200 ft. The purpose of the LCM was to try to protect any smaller fractures during drilling, and testing them later after the hole reached Total Depth (TD) and had been logged.
Figure 2. Well location map: Red triangles are deep exploration test wells; Davenport wells NWG 46-16 and NWG 55-29, California Energy wells CE 23-22 and CE 88-21. Blue dots are temperature gradient and shallow test wells. Red x are incomplete Davenport temperature gradient wells. was intersected at a depth of 6,400 feet. Below 7,500 feet both silicic and basaltic subvolcanic dikes were encountered. The well has a measured bottom-hole temperature of more than 316°C (600°F). Small pulses of non-condensable gas (predominantly CO2) were observed intermittently during drilling, and were more common below 9,200 ft. Drilling perturbations associated with the gas pulses were observed by the driller. These data are interpreted to indicate fracture intersects. No evidence of hydrothermal fluid, fossil or current, were observed in the drill cuttings, and flow testing of the well Figure 3. A graph showing CO2 values measured by Epoch Mudlogging during drilling of well NWG 46-16. To the right eventually depleted fluid in the well. This indicates are noted the depth of the casing shoe and the location of hydrothermally precipitated druse quartz and epidote observed that open fractures were encountered in these in the drill cuttings. The shallow CO2 shows are attributed to wells, though they were isolated with no extended biogenic gas from organic matter within clastic layers. connectivity with larger fracture systems. Well NWG 46-16, the geothermal discovery Well stability problems were encountered in the well, is the only deep exploration well to have well when flow testing was attempted. Light gray intersected hydrothermal fractures. It was to gray-green cemented crystal tuff encountered drilled approximately 2 km WNW of well near 5,000 ft. began to fail and come into the hole 23-22, encountered epidote facies thermally- when well bore fluid was markedly decreased metamorphosed volcanic rock at a depth of 7,200 ft. while unloading of the hole for a rig flow test. The
September/October 2014 25 tuff had been lithified from compaction. With a Formation fluid flow from hydrothermal formation temperature of about 150°C (300°F), fractures intersected by well 46-16 has shown re-crystallization is limited predominantly to remarkable resilience in spite of well condition phyllosilicates. Evidence of plastic shearing in the problems. Currently there are four mechanical tuff was found in recovered rock fragments from conditions in the well that have the potential to the bridge, though no evidence of shear-related restrict hydrothermal fluid flow. The bridge in permeability is indicated. This cemented tuff does well 46-16 creates a major constriction in the well appear to have micro-porosity, with extremely bore. The bentonite component of the drilling mud limited permeability. This section of the hole entering formation fractures would be irreversibly showed good stability during drilling, with high thermally-metamorphosed to illite, a non-swelling bore-hole fluid pressure. Problems occurred when phyllosilicate. This transition is an effective method the hole was unloaded in order to investigate for constricting fracture permeability. LCM was potential geothermal productivity from fractures added to the drilling fluid during drilling. There encountered near and below 9,000 ft. The most is no way of reliably estimating where the LCM is likely cause of formation failure/hole instability and how it may affect fracture permeability in the appears to be from pore-fluid pressure exceeding well at this time. Another unknown is the amount the formation strength when the fluid pressure in of debris that has accumulated in the lower portion the well bore was reduced. of the well, possibly restricting or blocking flow from any fractures in the bottom 1,000 ft. of the well. Approximately one year after the well was shut in, it was discovered that the well was producing a steady flow of non-condensable gasses, and that the water level in the well had dropped to approximately 2,070 ft below surface level with a well-head pressure of about 500 psi, measured while logging the well in 2009. Wellhead pressure would build back up to near 600 psi in 3 to 4 hours subsequent to bleeding off the pressure through a 2-inch bleed line. Shut-in wellhead pressure in well 55-29 was also measured at near 600 psi prior to EGS injection tests. Well 55-29 was shut in during May of 2013. As of the second week in August of 2013 the well-head pressure had built back up to 12 psi. Well 46-16 was opened again on the 8th, 9th and 10th of September, 2013, as part of the Sigma micro- seismic monitoring program. The program called for the well to be opened to bleed off the pressure for about four hours, then shut in to re-build well-head pressure. The goal of this exercise was to stimulate fluid flow within the hydrothermal fractures. The flow line was a four inch pipe with Figure 4 shows the temperature gradient profiles of three of the deep exploration wells, 46-16, 55-29, 23-22 and 86-21. The equilibrium temperature profile for well a 90 degree elbow at the end to direct the flow 55-29 (green) shows a good straight conductive gradient without formation upward (Figures 5 & 6). The well-head valve was fluid flow. This matches well-site data observed while the hole was being drilled. The profiles for well 46-16 (red and blue lines) show significant perturbations opened and a strong flow of gas, reflective of the indicative of formation fluid flow affecting the temperature profile of the well. The red arrows are locations where Dr. David Blackwell observed evidence in the 600 psi, began. Gas flowed for almost 2 hours, at temperature profiles of formation fluid flow.
26 GRC Bulletin l www.geothermal.org from the formation fractures into the well bore. The flow rate was too low through the bridge and four- inch flow line, and the upper well bore too cool, for steam "flashing" within the well bore to have contributed to the discharge. However, degassing of CO2 within the liquid ascending within the well likely occurred. The combination of liquid flow from the formation into the well bore and exsolution of CO2 within the water column appears to have been enough for the well to flow on each of the three days the well was unloaded in September of 2013. The discovery of a high-temperature geothermal resource by Davenport Resources on Newberry Volcano validates the long-held hypothesis of viable geothermal resources associated with Pleistocene and Holocene volcanism along the Cascade Range of Oregon. Newberry Volcano in particular is now a proven valuable geothermal exploration target.
Figure 5. Initial gas flow from well NWG 46-16 through a 4-inch bleed line (8 September 2013). which time the pressure guage showed a reading of 300 psi. After almost two hours the flow changed abruptly from gas to a light brown water, drilling fluid that had been left in the hole. The temperature of the liquid started out as slightly warm, increasing over time to quite warm, though not really hot. The flow of drilling mud lasted for about one and a quarter hours, then changing to gas with short bursts of very thick drilling mud. Variations on this pattern occurred in each of the three flowing cycles. A few deductions can be made from the well-flowing episodes. Non-condensable gas accumulating within the well bore reached a pressure of 600 psi because it was acting as a piston within the confines of the casing, pushing the liquid level downward within the well, pushing water back into formation fractures. A well-head pressure of 600 psi would indicate a depression of the water column of well over 1,000 ft. The very aggressive gas discharge through the 4-inch flow line is effected by the formation water pressure Figure 6. Author Al Weibel stands next to drilling fluid flowing through a 4-inch bleed line, approximately 45 minutes after the liquid flow acting as the piston, pushing the gas out of the well. commenced (8 September 2013). n This action requires liquid flow upward through the bridge, which in turn would require water flow
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36 GRC Bulletin l www.geothermal.org could capitalize on its abundant sunshine, on- and Publications, Websites, off-shore winds, tides, waves, and geothermal heat to abolish fossil fuels. Electric cars and hydrogen Videos & Maps fuel cell vehicles would be recharged using the renewable electricity supplies, reports Pacific by Ian Crawford Standard Mag. The report A Roadmap for Repowering California for New Studies Aid in Optimizing Water Use in All Purposes with Wind, Water, and Sunlight suggests Geothermal Applications that all new energy generation in the Golden Three key reports from the U.S. Energy State from 2020 onward would be from renewable Department address water impacts in geothermal sources. By 2030, 80 to 85 percent of the state’s energy production. Two recently issued studies, current energy supply would be replaced with clean produced by Argonne National Laboratory for the sources. Department's Geothermal Technologies Office According to the researchers’ calculations, (GTO), highlight methods for economizing water one scenario suggests that all of California’s 2050 use in geothermal applications. These reports power demands could be met with a mix of sources, complement a Department-wide report released in including: June that assesses water usage in multiple energy • 25,000 onshore 5 MWe wind turbines applications, including geothermal. • 1,200 100 MWe concentrated solar plants Geothermal Water Use: Life Cycle Water • 15 million 5-kilowatt residential rooftop Consumption, Water Resource Assessment, and Water photovoltaic systems Policy Framework, now available through the Energy • 72 100 MWe geothermal plants Department's Geothermal Data Repository, projects • 5,000 0.75 MWe wave devices geothermal water demand over the next 20-30 • 3,400 1 MWe tidal turbines years. More information at: http://gdr.openei.org/ To produce the 7,200 MW necessary for submissions/420 its projected 5% share of powering the state Life Cycle Water Consumption and Water Resource geothermal would only require 0.0061% of the land, Assessment for Utility-Scale Geothermal Systems, the smallest footprint of the renewables. also available through the DOE Geothermal Data Repository, is third in a series of reports by Argonne sponsored by the GTO. More information at: http:// gdr.openei.org/submissions/244 The Department's Water-Energy Tech Team report – The Water-Energy Nexus: Challenges and Opportunities – frames an integrated challenge and opportunity dialogue to address water use among energy technologies for the Department and its partners, laying the foundation for future efforts. The report can be downloaded at: www. energy.gov/downloads/water- energy-nexus-challenges-and- opportunities California Could Power Itself Using Nothing but Renewables Mark Jacobson of the Atmosphere/Energy Program, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University has co-authored a recent paper in Energy describing how California COURTESY MARK Z. JACOBSON ET AL
September/October 2014 31 Part II: Maximum magnitude, modeling induced seismicity and pore pressure-stress coupling Publications, Websites, Videos & Maps “Magnitude scaling of induced earthquakes”, by B. Edwards and J. Douglas, pp. 132-139 “Large magnitude events during injections in geothermal reservoirs and hydraulic energy: A heuristic approach”, by C. Baujard et al., pp. 140-152 Geothermics, October 2014 “Coupled continuum modeling of fracture The Table of Contents for reactivation and induced seismicity during Geothermics Volume 52 follows: enhanced geothermal operations”, by B.B.T. Wassing Special issue: Analysis et al., pp. 153-164 of Induced Seismicity in “Numerical investigation on optimized Geothermal Operations stimulation of intact and naturally fractured deep “Preface”, by A. Zang, E. geothermal reservoirs using hydro-mechanical Majer and D. Bruhn, pp. 1-5 coupled discrete particles joints model”, by J.S. Yoon “Analysis of induced et al., pp. 165-184 seismicity in geothermal “Forward modelling of seismicity rate changes reservoirs – An overview”, by in georeservoirs with a hybrid geomechanical– A. Zang et al., pp. 6-21 statistical prototype model”, by A.H. Hakimhashemi et al., pp. 185-194 Part I: Site-specific geothermal seismicity, “Pore pressure stress coupling in 3D and faults and stress consequences for reservoir stress states and fault “Induced seismicity related to geothermal reactivation”, by J.B. Altmannt et al., pp. 195-205 projects versus natural tectonic earthquakes and “Geomechanics response and induced seismicity other types of induced seismic events in Central during gas field depletion in the Netherlands”, by Europe”, by G. Grünthal, pp. 22-35 J.D. Van Wees et al., pp. 206-219 “Microseismicity observed at a non-pressure- “Calendar of Meetings”, pp. 220 n stimulated geothermal power plant”, by T. Megies and J. Wassermann, pp. 36-49 “Injection tests at the EGS reservoir of Soultz- sous-Forêts. Seismic response of the GPK4 stimulations”, by M. Calò et al., pp. 50-58 “High-precision relocation and focal mechanism GRC of the injection-induced seismicity at the Basel EGS”, by T. Kraft and N. Deichmann, pp. 59-73 Annual Meeting “Evidence for tensile faulting deduced from Fieldtrips full waveform moment tensor inversion during the stimulation of the Basel enhanced geothermal Friday & Saturday, September 26th & 27th system”, by P. Zhao et al., pp. 74-83 SOLD “Identification of faults activated during the • Newberry Crater Overnight Trip - $350 per person OUT stimulation of the Basel geothermal project from cluster analysis and focal mechanisms of the larger Sunday, September 28th magnitude events”, by N. Deichmann et al., pp. • Wine Tour - $125 per person 84-97 • Mount St. Helens Trip - $150 per person “High-resolution analysis of seismicity induced at Berlín geothermal field, El Salvador”, by G. Kwiatek et al., pp. 98-111 Thursday, October 2nd - Saturday, October 4th “Temporal variations of Vp/Vs-ratio at The • Klamath Falls 3-day Trip - $525 per person Geysers geothermal field, USA”, by R. Gritto and S. P. Jarpe, pp. 112-119 For more info go to: “Monitoring of induced seismicity during the www.geothermal.org/meet-new.html first geothermal reservoir stimulation at Paralana, Australia”, by J. Albaric et al., pp. 120-131
32 GRC Bulletin l www.geothermal.org GEA Geothermal Energy Expo Every year, the GEA Geothermal Energy Expo held in conjunction with the GRC Annual Meeting, hosts North America’s largest gathering of vendors providing support for geothermal resource exploration, characterization, development, production and management.
It provides a unique opportunity for exhibitors to showcase their projects, equipment, services and state of the art technology to the geothermal community. More than 110 exhibitors. For more information please visit: www.geothermalenergy2014.com.
Please note: Entry to the GEA Expo is free with GRC Annual Meeting registration.
2014 Exhibitors (as of August 28th) Company Booth Company Booth AFPG 551 Kuster, a Probe Company 1065 Alstom 551 Leapfrog Software 657 AltaRock Energy 943 Mannvit 862 AMSA, Inc. 963 Mill Man Steel 759 AquaLocate, LLC 1046 Mitsubishi Hitachi Systems Americas 439 Ashland, Inc. 651 Nalco Company 1056&1058 A-T Controls, Inc. 947 Nash, A Gardner Denver Product 1063 Atlas Copco Gas and Process Division 966 National Geothermal Data System 665 Baker Hughes 951 Nevada Division of Minerals 968 Bakersfield Pipe and Supply 1059 Ormat Technologies, Inc. 639 Boart Longyear 642 Paul Graham Drilling & Service Co 1047 Brush 1053 PB Power 547 BS&B Safety Systems, LLC 1041 PM International Suppliers, LLC 839 Bureau of Land Management 541 POWER Africa 1168-1150 Cameron 849 POWER Engineers, Inc. 845 Capuano Engineering Company 747 PowerChem Technology 948,946 CFG Services 655 Quantec Geoscience 647 Clemessy 551 Reed Electric & Field Service 769 Coastal Technologies, Inc. 664 Resource Cementing LLC 1045 Cooling Tower Depot, Inc. 767 REXA 556 Cryostar 858,856 Rotork 764 Dewhurst Group 844,842 Ruen Drilling, Inc. 969 Directorate of Geothermal, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources 457 Schlumberger 758,756,754 DOSECC Exploration Services, LLC 1051 Scientific Drilling International 751 Drill Cool Systems, Inc. 868 Sinclair Well Products 638 EGS Consulting, Inc. 846 SNC-Lavalin Thermal Power 944 Emerson 1044&1042 SPX Cooling Technologies 644,646 Enertime 551 Stantec 567 Environmental Management and Planning Solutions (EMPSi) 554 Stoel Rives LLP 1062 EOST 551 Technip 763 ES-Géothermie 551 Tekmos 666 Ethos Energy 768,766 Teranov 653 EvapTech, Inc 945 The Energy Conservation Centar, Japan (ECCJ) 546,544 EXERGY 757 ThermaSource, LLC 939,941 Expro 563,662 Thermochem, Inc. 745,743 Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. 838,840 TIMET 765 GEFCO 668 TIX-IKS Corporation 539 GEIE EMC 551 TNG Energy Services 864,866 GEODEEP- French Geothermal Cluster for Heat and Power 551,655,653 Torishima Pump Mfg. Co., Ltd. 1038 Geotemps, Inc. 667 Toshiba International Corporation - Power Systems 741,739 Geothermal Development Associates 959,957 Transmark Services 565 Global Power Solutions 752 TRE Canada Inc. 459 GNS Science 545 TurbinePROs 451 GPC IP 655 Turboden 439 Green Energy Group AS 663 University of Auckland 543 Horizon Well Logging 656 US Department of Energy Geothermal Technologies Office 447,445 Hudson Products Corporation 967 USC Center of Geothermal Studies 557 Hydro Resources 750 Val-Matic Valve & Mfg Corp. 558 Imperial Irrigation District 867 Veizades & Associates, Inc. 1055 Industrial Builders 847 Vooner FloGard Corporation 658 Industrial Cooling Solutions 746,744 Wanzek Construction 552,550 Industrial Valco / Beric Valves 869 Well Analysis Corporation 865,964 Itasca 1039 Western Cultural Resource Management, Inc. 640 John M. Phillips, LLC 965 Wieland Thermal Solutions, Lda 1057 Kelly Pipe 659 WWT International 645 KMS Technologies 1040 Zonge Engineering 762
This Just In... Late breaking news from the global geothermal community by Ian Crawford, GRC Director of Communications
Indonesian Geothermal Bill Passed Only 24% of the Mainland Tanzanian The Jakarta Post reports that the Indonesian population is connected with electricity services House of Representatives passed a geothermal bill of which 7% is in rural areas. Demand for electricity on August 26. The bill will replace the existing Law is on average growing between 10% and 15% per No.27/2003 on geothermal energy. Geothermal annum. exploration will no longer be considered a mining To achieve the desired socio-economic activity on the archipelago. transformation, Tanzania aims to increase Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Jero connection levels to 30% by 2015, 50% by 2025 and Wacik praised the passing of the law, saying that it more than 75% by 2033. would let geothermal projects in Indonesia expand further. California Geothermal Grant and Loan Program The ministry’s renewable energy and energy Awards Announced conservation director general, Rida Mulyana, said The California Energy Commission has the newly signed law had at least four points that announced the winners of the latest round of awards were different to the previous geothermal law. for the Geothermal Grant and Loan Program One of the differences was that the government (GRDA). no longer considered geothermal exploration a $5,800,000 in grant funding is to be awarded to mining activity, an issue that had long hampered the four recipients. They are listed in the table below. development of renewable energy potentials. The applications were screened, reviewed, Many geothermal exploration areas in the evaluated and scored using the criteria prescribed country are located within forestry areas, which in the solicitation. Based on the Evaluation prohibited any excavation activities. Hampered by Committee’s scores, the Energy Commission such obstacles, only 1,300 MW out of total 29,000 proposes to award funding to four applicants. MW geothermal energy potential in Indonesia has The table identifies each of the applicants been tapped. recommended to receive funding, the project title, the recommended amount of Energy Commission Five Year Plan Calls for 200 MW Geothermal Energy funding, and scoring information. The full awards in Tanzania notice can be found on the California Energy The newly released energy blueprint for Commission website at: www.energy.ca.gov/ Tanzania dubbed Electricity Supply contracts/PON-13-507_NOPA.pdf Industry Reform Strategy and Roadmap 2014-2025, shows that the government hopes to increase installed generation capacity from the current 1,583 MW to over 10,000 MW, reports East African Business Week. The blueprint shows that nearly 4,000 MW will be generated from natural gas and 200 MW from geothermal.
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34 GRC Bulletin l www.geothermal.org U.S. Company Provides Steam Scrubber for Kamojang Geothermal Project September 30 8am - 12pm Coastal Technologies Inc. of South Carolina, USA has announced that it will supply the steam GRC Annual Meeting scrubber for Unit 5 of the Kamojang geothermal Oregon Convention Center power station in Indonesia. The order for this project was placed directly The David D. by Fuji Electric Corp. of America, responsible for Blackwell Session – manufacturing and delivering the steam turbine and Featuring geophysics generator units. The steam scrubber is responsible research inspired by for protecting the steam turbine from any carryover the work of Dave of brine and water carried with the steam from the Blackwell. steam fields. Join this special The geothermal plant is owned and operated session that brings by PT. Pertamina Geothermal Energy (PGE), together a collection of the geothermal arm of the state-run oil and gas people and work inspired by Dave Blackwell’s company, Pertamina, and is located in Garut, a city 45+ years of dedicated teaching, mentoring located approximately 40 km from Bandung City, and research on all manner of things related to West Java, Indonesia. heat flow. Hear presentations from long time Unit 5 will have a 35 MW power generation colleagues, including a number of his former capacity, and its construction is scheduled to be graduate students, who have become leaders completed by July 2015. and mentors themselves. Coastal Technologies’ unique cyclonic style Dr. Blackwell earned a B.S. in Geology scrubber was selected, in part, due to the success and Mathematics from Southern Methodist and performance of a similar scrubber supplied at University (SMU) in 1963. While an the nearby Darajat 55 MW project. undergraduate, he worked for two summers as The geothermal power industry has been a a field assistant for the U. S. Geological Survey core market for CTI over the past 25 years having in Denver and served as a Teaching Assistant installations of steam scrubbers and separators at SMU. Dr. Blackwell received an M.S. in around the entre Pacific Rim.n Geophysics from Harvard University in 1965, and was granted a Ph.D. in Geophysics by Harvard University in 1967 with a dissertation on terrestrial heat-flow determinations in the northwestern United States. Following a post- doctoral fellowship at CalTech’s Seismological Laboratory, Dr. Blackwell joined the SMU faculty in 1968, where he has been ever since. He was named the W.B. Hamilton Professor of Geophysics in 1982. He was a charter member of the GRC (1971) and has served as the GRC President and on the Board. He’s received numerous GRC awards over the years, including the Distinguished Service Award (1997), the Geothermal Special Achievement Award (2004) and the Joseph W. Aidlin Award (2009). Although he ‘officially’ retired from SMU in 2013, Dave is still actively advising students, writing papers, and researching heat flow and geothermal resources in between visits to his ranch.
September/October 2014 35 RENEXPO 15th International Trade Fair for Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Energy Innovation 9-12 October, Augsburg, Germany Calendar of Events www.renexpo.de/index.php 3rd European Geothermal Workshop Chilean International Renewable Energy 15-16 October, Karlsruhe, Germany Congress http://labex-geothermie.unistra.fr/ 9-10 September, Santiago, Chile www.greenpowerconferences.com/CIREC2014 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 19-22 October, Vancouver, British Columbia, ICDP Workshop: Coring Magma and Related Canada Investigations http://community.geosociety.org/gsa2014/home/ 15-19 September, Krafla, Iceland More information from [email protected] 5th African Rift Geothermal Conference (ARGeo-C5) 5th Annual All-UC Conference on Energy and 27 October-2 November, Arusha, Tanzania Environmental Economics http://c5.theargeo.org 19 September, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA Future Energy Conference www.uce3.berkeley.edu/events.html 5 November, Seattle, Washington www.futureenergyconference.com/wa14/ Pre-Meeting GRC Workshops Geo-T Expo and "Der Geothermiekongress" 26 & 27 September, Portland, Oregon, USA 11-13 November, Essen, Germany - Introduction to Hydrothermal Systems and www.geotexpo.com/en/geo_t_expo/index.html Geothermal Exploration - Geothermal Leasing, Unitization and Water Use Legal 36th New Zealand Geothermal Workshop Issues 24-26 November, Auckland, New Zealand www.geothermal.org/Annual_Meeting/workshops.html www.geothermalworkshop.co.nz Pre-Meeting GRC Fieldtrips Developing & Delivering Geothermal Power 26-28 September, Portland, Oregon, USA Projects (Green Power Academy) - Cascade Volcanoes Including Newberry Crater 24-26 November, London, UK - A Wine Tour in the Willamette Valley www.greenpoweracademy.com - Mount St. Helens Volcano 20% discount for GRC Members - Contact jon.riley@ www.geothermal.org/Annual_Meeting/fieldtrips.html greenpoweracademy.com GRC Annual Charity Golf Tournament GeoPower Global Congress 2014 28 September, Portland, Oregon, USA 2-5 December, Istanbul, Turkey www.geothermal.org/Annual_Meeting/golf.html www.greenpowerconferences.com/GE1412TR World Geothermal Energy Summit 2014 38th GRC Annual Meeting & GEA Geothermal Energy Expo 4-5 December, Lima, Peru http://arcmediaglobal.com/geothermal/index.html 28 September- October 1, Portland, Oregon, USA Renewable Energy World Conference & Expo www.geothermal.org/meet-new.html North America 9-11 December, Orlando, Florida, USA Post-Meeting GRC Fieldtrip www.renewableenergyworld-events.com 2-4 October, Portland, Oregon, USA American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting - Klamath Falls www.geothermal.org/Annual_Meeting/fieldtrips.html 15-19 December, San Francisco, California, USA http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2014/
The Fourth London Geothermal Symposium: Expo Geothermal 2015 The Launch of BritGeothermal 22-24 January 2015, Ankara, Turkey www.demosfuar.com.tr/demos-fuar-sayfasi/Expo%20 13 October 2014, London, UK Geothermal%20/98/001/ www.britgeothermal.org/events/home.html
36 GRC Bulletin l www.geothermal.org Stanford Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering 26-28 January 2015, Stanford, California, USA http://pangea.stanford.edu/ERE/research/geoth/ conference/workshop.html Transitions
Energy and Materials Research Conference Caity Johnson is the new Senior Program (EMR2015) Coordinator responsible for coordinating the East 25-27 February 2015, Madrid, Spain Africa Geothermal Partnership for the U.S.-East www.emr2015.org Africa Geothermal Partnership (EAGP). n ENREG – Energia Regenerabila 4-6 March 2015, Arad, Romania www.enreg-expo.com/trade-fair-themes.html Obituary GeoTHERM - Expo & Congress 5-6 March, 2015, Offenburg, Germany Alfred H. Truesdell of Menlo Park, California www.geotherm-germany.com passed away August 23, after a long battle with RENEXPO Central Europe - 9th International cancer. He was a long-time employee of the Energy Trade Fair Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a GRC 11-12 March 2015, Budapest, Hungary Member. http://renexpo-budapest.com/index.php A more complete obituary will appear in the next GRC Bulletin. n 11th Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Exhibition and Conference for South-East If you know a geothermal colleague who has received a prestigious Europe award, recently changed jobs, retired, or passed away, send copy to 11-13 March, 2015, Sofia, Bulgaria Ian Crawford at [email protected] for future placement in the http://viaexpo.com/en/pages/ee-re-exhibition GRC Bulletin.
World Geothermal Congress 2015 19-25 April, 2015, Melbourne, Australia New GRC Members http://wgc2015.com.au The following have recently joined the global community of the GRC: 39th GRC Annual Meeting & GEA Geothermal Energy Expo Navid Afshari Iran 20-23 September, 2015, Reno, Jenica Andersen United States Nevada, USA Sylvain Broglé France www.geothermal.org/meet-new.html n Antonio De Crisci Canada James Evans United States Janice Feldman Canada Neil Frazer United States Todd Griffin United States John Grocki United States James Mcclain United States DAVID ARIAS Executive VP/Chief Operating Officer Ryan Melsert United States Alexandra Reid United States Paul Shurtleff United States Broglé Sylvain France Lotanna Ufondu Canada Allen Ward United States
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