Email RIS file
Bookmark
Report an Issue

Dixie Valley Geothermal Prospect Churchill County, Nevada [electronic resource].

Published
Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 1979.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Additional Creators
United States. Department of Energy. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Access Online

Availability

I Want It
I Want It

Finding items...

Restrictions on Access
Free-to-read Unrestricted online access
Summary
Attempts were made to cause well Dixie Federal 45-14 to flow by reducing the wellbore pressure opposing possible producing formation. Such pressure reduction was accomplished by using a Magcobar air compressor to lift the water column out of the wellbore. Three series of efforts using this method were performed. The conclusions from these last attempts to flow Dixie Federal 45-14 were: (1) the massive water entry at 5820-5870 feet was shut off; (2) the compressor, with some help from the mud pumps, was able to virtually clear the wellbore of water above the point of air injection; (3) despite evacuating water from the wellbore to as deep as 7500 feet, the Dixie Federal 45-14 had insufficient permeability to commence flowing on its own as of 7-8-79. The possible benefits of temperature equilibration or other time adjustments within the prospective interval below 8000 feet may include eventual capacity to flow. This potential will be evaluated with future flow attempts; and (4) there is some small liquid entry somewhere between 6290 and 9022 feet which caused the air compressor to go through very long (3-4 hour) cycles of unloading and slowly re-filling the wellbore.
Report Numbers
E 1.99:do32
do32
Subject(s)
Other Subject(s)
Note
Published through SciTech Connect.
07/01/1979.
"do32"
View MARC record | catkey: 14383786