Year: 2022
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The Basin & Range Investigations for Developing Geothermal Energy (BRIDGE) Project kicked off in the Autumn of 2021.The Department of Energy Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) funded BRIDGE as part of a broader GTO initiative to advance the identification and development of hidden, or "blind", geothermal energy resources in the Basin and Range Province (Basin & Range) of the western USA.The BRIDGE Team is a collaboration being led by Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) with partners from Geologica Geothermal Group, the US Navy Geothermal Program Office, and others that will contribute to various stages of the project.The focus of this project is on Western Nevada with areas of interest, identified chiefly from the prior Nevada Play Fairway Analysis (PFA) study, located primarily in Churchill and Mineral Counties including lands managed by the Department of Defense (DOD).The first stage of BRIDGE is focused on reconnaissance of PFA targets that are suspected or known to be associated with hidden geothermal resources on DOD and surrounding lands.Helicopter-borne transient electromagnetism (HTEM) surveying is being used in a novel conceptual approach for optimizing shallow and deep well targeting in Basin & Range geothermal exploration.This reconnaissance phase is part of the overall BRIDGE workflow:1. Assess the pre-survey likelihood of geothermal systems in the study area based on PFA reviews and a reanalysis of existing information to constrain subsurface temperature, SAND2022-7780CThis paper describes objective technical results and analysis.Any subjective views or opinions that might be expressed in the paper do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S.
DOI: 10.2172/2004444
Authors: Paul Schwering, Thomas Lowry, Nicholas Hinz, Gabe Matson, Andrew Sabin, Kelly Blake, Jade Zimmerman, Steven Sewell, William Cumming
Language: English
Subfield: Space and Planetary Science
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4388349841