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Utah FORGE: 2020-2021 Geothermal Energy/EGS Survey and Results

The Utah FORGE project collaborated with the University of Utahs Department of Communication on a Capstone course during Fall Semester 2020. The course created a survey to gauge the general populations knowledge of geothermal energy and Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). The survey was distributed through Qualtrics, an experience management company, in late 2020 and early 2021 to respondents in 11 western states (AZ, CA, CO, ID,  MT, NM, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY). Approximately 1,000 responses were received. The Code Book (the consent form and the questions themselves) and the raw data results in a spreadsheet are included in the data resources.

Tags: consent-form, data, egs, egs-knowledge, egs-survey, energy, geothermal, geothermal-knowledge, geothermal-survey, qualtrics, questionnaire, raw-data, survey, survey-results, utah, utah-forge
Organization: Department of Energy
Geothermal Development and the Use of Categorical Exclusions Under NEPA

This study focuses primarily on the Categorial Exclusions (CX) process and its applicability to geothermal exploration. In this paper, we:
- Provide generalized background information on CXs, including previous NEPA reports addressing CXs, the process for developing CXs, and the role of extraordinary circumstances;
- Examine the history of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) geothermal CXs;
- Compare current CXs for oil, gas, and geothermal energy;
- Describe bills proposing new statutory CXs;
- Examine the possibility of standardizing geothermal CXs across federal agencies; and
- Present analysis from the Geothermal NEPA Database and other sources on the potential for new geothermal exploration CXs.

As part of this study, we reviewed Environmental Assessments (EAs) conducted in response to 20 geothermal exploration drilling permit applications (Geothermal Drilling Permits or Notices of Intents) since the year 2001, the majority of which are from the last 5 years. All 20 EAs reviewed for this study resulted in a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI).

Tags: administrative, assessment, blm, bureau-of-land-management, categorical-exclusion, ea, energy, environmental, finding-of-no-significant-impact, fonsi, geothermal, national-environmental-policy-act, nepa, permit, permitting, regulatory, statutory
Organization: Department of Energy
Regulatory and Permitting Information Desktop (RAPID) Toolkit

The Regulatory and Permitting Information Desktop (RAPID) Toolkit combines the former Geothermal Regulatory Roadmap, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Database, and other resources into a Web-based tool that gives the regulatory and utility-scale geothermal developer communities rapid and easy access to permitting information. RAPID currently comprises five tools: Permitting Atlas, Regulatory Roadmap, Resource Library, NEPA Database, and Best Practices. 

Because of the huge amount of information involved, RAPID was developed in a wiki platform to allow industry and regulatory agencies to maintain the content in the future so that it continues to provide relevant and accurate information to users. The content was expanded to include regulatory requirements for utility-scale solar, hydropower, and bulk transmission development projects. 

Going forward, development of the RAPID Toolkit will focus on expanding the capabilities of current tools, developing additional tools, including additional technologies, and continuing to increase stakeholder involvement.

Tags: assessment, best-practices, blm, bulk-transmission, database, ea, energy, environmental, geothermal, geothermal-resource-council, grc, library, national-environmental-policy-act, nepa, permit, permitting, rapid, rapid-toolkit, regulatory, regulatory-roadmap, roadmap, toolkit
Organization: Department of Energy
Geothermal Permitting and NEPA Timeline Analysis

In this analysis, we outline the types of NEPA-related analyses and approvals (e.g., environmental assessment), and we provide examples of geothermal development activities (e.g., well drilling) that might require each type of approval, including an overview and discussion of the specific permits.

We conducted an in-depth analysis of timelines specific to each NEPA analysis type, and we analyzed a sample of geothermal projects to identify factors that increased NEPA review timelines. Based on that analysis, we identified proven and potential strategies that can assist geothermal projects by lowering the time necessary to navigate the NEPA process, while maintaining the efficacy of the federal environmental review intact. We also identified areas of potential improvement in NEPA efficiency within each phase of geothermal development. Shortening project timelines can effectively decrease the perceived risk profiles of geothermal development projects.

This submission includes a paper, poster, and presentation for the Geothermal Resources Council (GRC) summarizing geothermal permitting and NEPA timeline analysis. Also included are two spreadsheets detailing the NEPA timeline analysis and environmental assessments (EA).

Tags: categorical-exclusion, ce, cx, determination-of-nepa-adequacy, dna, ea, eis, energy, enviromental-impact-statement, environmental-assessment, geothermal, national-environmental-policy-act, nepa, nepa-database, openei, permit, permitting, species, timeline
Organization: Department of Energy
Geothermal Project NEPA Database

During the 2013 fiscal year, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) developed the Geothermal National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Database with funding provided by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO). The information in the database was collected in an effort to conduct analyses on NEPA timelines (Young et al., 2014). The database was then made available to the public on OpenEI in an effort to share the data collection effort with others. OpenEI allows information related to geothermal NEPA documents from all federal agencies to be accessed and maintained in a single location so that others can utilize the data for their own analyses and so that the structure and content can be expanded for other uses.

This submission includes links to the NEPA Database on OpenEI and in the Regulatory and Permitting Information Desktop (RAPID) Toolkit. Also included are a paper and poster by Young et. al presenting the NEPA Database to the Geothermal Resources Council (GRC).

Tags: blm, casual-use, categorical-exclusion, ce, cu, cx, database, determination-of-nepa-adequacy, dna, ea, eis, energy, environmental-assessment, environmental-impact-statement, fonsi, geothermal, geothermal-resources-council, grc, gto, national-environmental-policy-act, nepa, openei, rapid-toolkit, usfs
Organization: Department of Energy
Utah FORGE: Phase 3 Microgravity Data

A 4D microgravity survey began in early 2019 in order to benchmark surface and subsurface elevations prior to Phase 3 drilling and stimulation campaigns. Microgravity stations are collocated with GPS deformation benchmarks and use the same location survey data. Surveys are undertaken on a quarterly basis. The focus of current activities is comparative analysis of GPS survey results and InSAR analysis (see GDR Submission 1251) to check seasonal variance and to evaluate possible changes in the groundwater elevation.

The attached zip file contains a text file and an Excel spreadsheet containing Utah FORGE Phase 3 processed "final" microgravity data through time. The data are identical in both files. The spreadsheet is only supplied for convenience. There is also a ReadMe.txt file that describes the field headings. 

Tags: egs, energy, forge-microgravity, geophysics, geothermal, gps, microgravity, milford, processed-data, roosevelt-hot-springs, utah-forge, utah-geothermal
Organization: Department of Energy
Utah FORGE: Telluric Monitoring Experiment Transfer Functions

The Utah Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) attempted a stimulation at well 16A(78)-32 during April and May 2022. We recorded telluric and magnetotelluric (MT) data before, during, and after the well stimulation experiment using the FORGE Telluric Monitoring (FTM) array to constrain transients in the Earth's electrical structure caused by the stimulation.

Tags: energy, forge, forge-telluric-monitoring, ftm, geophysics, geothermal, magnetics, magnetotelluric, milford, processed-data, raw-data, stimulation, transfer-functions, utah, utah-forge, utah-forge-mt, well-16a78-32, well-data
Organization: Department of Energy
Utah FORGE: Phase 3 Magnetotelluric (MT) Data

New high-quality tensor MT data at 122 sites, including the vertical magnetic field and utilizing ultra-remote referencing, have been acquired over the Utah FORGE project area. The results will be used to delineate the densities of faults and fractures in crystalline basement rocks, to define the heat sources, and to derive baseline 3D resistivity structure for later MT monitoring of temporal changes in resistivity structure following well stimulation in the EGS reservoir.

There are three files here related to Utah FORGE magnetotelluric (MT) data acquisition and processing. The FORGE MT EDIs zip file contains the observed MT responses in industry-standard EDI format. For each site, there is an EDI response file that utilized a local independent reference for noise cancellation, and a file that utilized a distant reference cancelling noise associated with the DC transmission line of the Delta IPP passing down the west side of Milford Valley. These two site files could be merged as appropriate. 

The FORGE Model Cell Center file contains the model volume of the 3D Forge MT inversion for characterizing the resistivity structure in the project area. It was derived using finite element inversion methodology described in Wannamaker et al, in the attached FORGE Phase3 Geophysics paper, from the MT observation EDI files. It is ASCII format (.dat) and entries are defined at top of the file in a simple x-y-z-Rho listing in UTM coordinates. The element layers drape the topography so the Rho value layers are not purely horizontal slices. This greatly simplifies the listing.

Tags: egs, energy, fea, fem, finite-element, forge, geodesy, geophysical-data, geophysics, geothermal, gravity, magnetics, magnetotelluric-data, magnetotellurics, milford, mt-data, roosevelt-hot-springs, seismic, site-characterization, utah-forge, utah-forge-mt, utah-geothermal
Organization: Department of Energy
Utah FORGE: Phase 3 Ground Water Level Monitoring Data

Groundwater data around the Utah FORGE site has been collected to determine the piezometric levels and compositional variability. Field measurements in 2020 are designed to obtain and survey new groundwater wells that have been drilled on the distal periphery of the Utah FORGE project area. The spreadsheet included in this submission contains ground water level data from the Utah FORGE site as monitored from wells WOW-2 and WOW-3. The well locations are also provided as UTM, Zone 12, NAD83 coordinates.

Tags: corrected, egs, energy, forge, geothermal, ground-water, ground-water-level, groundwater, milford, monitoring, roosevelt-hot-springs, temperature, utah-forge, water-elevation, water-level, water-table-depth, well-data, wow-2, wow-3
Organization: Department of Energy
Utah FORGE: Phase 3 InSAR Study Results

Ground movement is evaluated through analysis of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) interferograms. Results indicate there has been no detectable ground movement at millimeter scale. The zipped file in this submission contains a report, maps, and results from the InSAR Phase 3 study done to determine ground crustal deformation, if any, in the Utah FORGE area. The data used to facilitate this study included synthetic aperture radar data acquired by the TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X satellite missions operated by the German Space Agency (DLR). It is accompanied by a README.txt file which further describes each included dataset.

Tags: bedrock, crustal, crustal-deformation, deformation, egs, energy, geodesy, geology, geothermal, ground-deformation, insar, interferometric-synthetic-aperture-radar, map, matlab, mean-rate-of-change, milford, remote-sensing, roosevelt-hot-springs, subsidence, utah-forge, utah-geothermal
Organization: Department of Energy
EGS Collab Experiment 1: SIMFIP Notch-164 GRL Paper

Characterizing the stimulation mode of a fracture is critical to assess the hydraulic efficiency and the seismic risk related to deep fluid manipulations. We have monitored the three-dimensional displacements of a fluid-driven fracture during water injections in a borehole at ~1.5 km depth in the crystalline rock of the Sanford Underground Research Facility (USA). The fracture initiates at 61% of the minimum horizontal stress by micro-shearing of the borehole on a foliation plane. As the fluid pressure increases further, borehole axial and radial displacements increase with injection time highlighting the opening and sliding of a new hydrofracture growing ~10 m away from the borehole, in accordance with the ambient normal stress regime and in alignment with the microseismicity. Our study reveals how fluid-driven fracture stimulation can be facilitated by a mixed-mode process controlled by the complex hydromechanical evolution of the growing fracture.

The data presented in this submission refer to the SIMFIP measurements and analyses of the stimulation tests conducted on the 164 ft (50 m) notch of the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), during the EGS-Collab test 1. In addition to the datafiles, there is the draft of a manuscript submitted to Geophysical Research Letters (GRL).

Tags: anisotropy, borehole, displacement, egs, egs-collab, energy, experiment, flow-rate, foliation, fracture, geophysics, geothermal, hydraulic, hydraulic-conductivity, hydrofracture, injection-test, micro-shearing, new-borehole-instrument, nucleate, sanford-underground-research-facility, seismic, seismicity, shear, shear-displacement, simfip, stimulation, stress, surf, wellbore
Organization: Department of Energy
Report on the deployment of the National Geothermal Data System 2.0

This reports includes a video description of recent upgrades and changes to the National Geothermal Data System (geothermaldata.org) and a text report of its relevant security upgrades. Improvements include a new operating system, implementation of HTTPS, implementation of a standard firewall, PostgreSQL upgrades, an ESRI ArcGIS server, new registration policies, and a non-public API.

Tags: api, arcgis, arcgis-enterprise-server-hosting, cybersecurity, energy, firewall, geothermal, https, implimentation, ngds, policies, postgresql, registration, security, ubuntu-20-04, update, updates, upgrade, video-presentation
Organization: Department of Energy
Utah FORGE: Evaluation of Potential Geochemical Responses to Injection in the FORGE Geothermal Reservoir

Plugging of fracture porosity from mineral precipitation due to injecting cold water into a a geothermal reservoir can impact the overall permeability of the fracture network in the reservoir. This can have serious ramifications on the efficiency of the geothermal resource. Geochemical modeling can be useful in providing a first-hand evaluation of potential of mineral precipitation along the different reaction paths. We developed geochemical models for injecting four different relevant water compositions in the FORGE Utah geothermal reservoir through well 58-32. Results and discussions related to this work are presented in this technical report.

Tags: aqueous, calcite, drilling, egs, energy, energy-geoscience-institute, forge-utah, fracture, fracture-network, geochemistry, geothermal, illite, injection-test, kaolinite, milford, minerals, modeling, numerical-modeling, ph, polythermal, porosity, quartz, reaction-path, reservoir, roosevelt-hot-springs, stimulation, thermal, utah, utah-forge, well-45-3, well-58-32, well-data
Organization: Department of Energy
Snake River Plain Play Fairway Analysis: Phase 2 Report and Phase 3 Proposal

This report presents the results of Phase 2 of the Snake River Plain Play Fairway Analysis project, and a summary of proposed work for Phase 3. Phase 2 focused on new data collection in specific areas of interest identified in Phase 1. These data include new magnetotelluric, seismic, gravity, magnetic surveys, as well as structural and geologic mapping, Ar-Ar radiometric ages of young basaltic volcanoes, and chemical analyses of young volcanic rocks. New data also include chemical and isotopic analyses of water from springs and wells. Focus areas include the Mountain Home region, an area around the Bostic-1 thermal well, and Camas Prairie, Idaho. 

Tags: ar-ar, basaltic, blind, bostic, bostic-1, camas-prairie, characterization, chemistry, energy, geology, geophysics, geothermal, gravity, hydrologic, idaho, magnetic, magnetotelluric, modeling, mountain-home, mt, pfa, play-fairway-analysis, resource, seismic, snake-river-plain, srp, structural, survey, thermal, thermal-well, volcanic-rock, volcano, water, well-data
Organization: Department of Energy
Snake River Plain Play Fairway Analysis: Phase 1 Report

This presents the results of Phase 1 of the Snake River Plain Play Fairway Analysis project, along with a proposed work for Phase 2. No new data were collected, but we list data sources for our compilation.

The Snake River volcanic province (SRP) overlies a thermal anomaly that extends deep into the mantle; it represents one of the highest heat flow provinces in North America. The Yellowstone hotspot continues to feed a magma system that underlies southern Idaho and has produced basaltic volcanism as young as 2000 years old. It has been estimated to host up to 855 MW of potential geothermal power production, most of which is associated with the Snake River Plain volcanic province.

Our goals for this Phase 1 study were to: (1) adapt the methodology of Play Fairway Analysis for geothermal exploration to create a formal basis for its application to geothermal systems, (2) assemble relevant data for the SRP from publicly available and private sources, and (3) build a geothermal play fairway model for the SRP and identify the most promising plays, using software tools that are standard in the petroleum industry. Our ultimate goals are to lower the risk and cost of geothermal exploration throughout geothermal industry, and to stimulate the development of new geothermal power resources in Idaho.

Tags: arcgis, blind, characterization, egs, energy, geophysics, geospatial-data, geothermal, gis, gravity, idaho, magnetotelluric, magnetotellurics, modeling, mountain-home, mt, numerical-model, pfa, play-fairway-analysis, resource, resource-assessment, snake-river-mountain-home-modeling, snake-river-plain, srp, structure, temperature, thermal
Organization: Department of Energy
EGS Collab Experiment 1 Stimulation Data

Stimulation data from Experiment 1 of EGS Collab, which occurred on the 4850 ft level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF). A detailed description of the stimulation data is provided in the StimulationDataNotes.docx and is also available on the EGS Collab Wiki.  A Meta Data Cheat Sheet, which describes all of the channels in the Raw CSV files, is available as well. Note that this cheat sheet is a comprehensive meta data descriptor and channels were added as the experiment evolved. This means that some columns may not be populated in early data. Additionally, we have included the chat logs from these experiments. The experiments were broadcast over teleconferencing software and real-time data displays were available to remote observers. The logs contain important observations from those personnel performing the experiment and the remote contributors.  Finally, we have included summary and individual plots of all of the data for the user to compare to. 

Tags: 4850, e1-i, e1-p, egs, egs-collab, energy, experiment, flow, fracturing, geothermal, hydraulic, injection, injection-rate, injection-test, pressure, raw-data, sanford-underground-research-facility, stimulation, surf, temperature, well-data
Organization: Department of Energy
EGS Collab Experiment 1: 3D Seismic Velocity Model and Updated Microseismic Catalog from Double-Difference Seismic Tomography

This package contains a 3D Seismic velocity model and an updated microseismic catalog obtained for a double-difference seismic tomography study.

The 3D_seismic_velocity_model text file contains x (m), y(m), z(m), P-wave velocity (km/s), P-wave velocity quality indicator (1 for well-constrained; 0 for poorly constrained), S-wave velocity (km/s), and S-wave velocity quality indicator (1 for well-constrained; 0 for poorly constrained).

The Updated_MEQ_catalog text file contains event origin time, x(m), y(m), z(m), error in x (m), error in y (m), error in z (m), and RMS misfit (millisecond).

The 3D_seismic_P-wave_velocity_model animation file shows slices of the 3D P-wave velocity model. The 3D_seismic_S-wave_velocity_model animation file shows slices of the 3D S-wave velocity model.

The Interactive_MEQ_location_comparison HTML file is an interactive visualization of the updated microseismic event locations and the original seismic catalog. The visualization allows users to view and compare the event locations by dragging, rotating, and zooming in.

An updated version of 3D_seismic_velocity_model and associated animations were included, which were calculated with a more strict assumption for quality indicators.

Tags: 3d, 3d-seismic-structure, catalog, e1-i, e1-p, egs, egs-collab, energy, geophysics, geothermal, interactive, interactive-visualization, meq, micro-earthquake, microearthquake, microseismic, microseismic-catalog, modeling, p-wave, passive-source-sensor, processed-data, s-wave, seismic, seismic-tomography, surf, tomography, velocity, visualization
Organization: Department of Energy
EGS Collab Experiment 1: 4850L Downhole Camera Surveys During Injection

This package includes data and footage from two rounds of downhole camera surveys performed at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) on the 4850 level. The exercise was performed once on 25 May 2018 and once on 21 December 2018. On May 25th, the first round was done during fluid injection at the 164-ft stimulation zone in the injection well (E1-I). On December 21st, the second round was carried out during fluid injection at the 142-ft stimulation zone. Prior to the injections, downhole instrumentation was removed from the production well (E1-P) to allow room for the downhole camera system. The water within E1-P was then lifted out by the application of air pressure and the downhole camera system was conveyed into the production well. Finally, the water was injected into E1-I and the camera was used to scan for jetting points, or fluid entry, in E1-P. There is a survey description in this package that further describes the procedure of the survey and the overall results. Additionally, there is a detailed analysis of the surveys in the form of a PowerPoint, which includes animations/visualizations from the camera footage, presents interpretations in detail, and provides some general conclusions. Three animations, along with the two video segments that show the jetting into E1-P, are also provided. The video footage was collected using a GeoVISION Dual-Scan Micro Video Camera, the specs of which are also included in this package as a resource.

Tags: borehole, data, depth, downhole-camera, drilling, dual-scan-micro-video-camera, e1-p, egs, egs-collab, energy, experiment, flow, foliation, fracture, fracturing, geothermal, geovision, hydraulic, injection, injection-rate, injection-test, jets, jetting-point, pressure, production-well, sanford-underground-research-facility, stimulation, stress, surf, well-data, wellbore
Organization: Department of Energy