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Did You Know … that Scottish clubbers use dance beat to generate heat
Did you know ... that Scottish clubbers use dance beat to generate heat? In Glasgow, Scotland, dancers are taking “the...
SSA Annual Meeting 2023
Announcing SSA session De-risking Deep Geothermal Projects: Geophysical Monitoring and Forecast Modeling Advances...
Word of the Week – Adularia
Adularia Hydrothermal potassium bearing feldspar that forms in volcanic hosted geothermal reservoirs and is a...
Word of the Week – Aquifer
Aquifer Porous and permeable rock unit or unconsolidated layer in the subsurface in which all the pores and voids are...
Word of the Week – Basalt
Basalt Dark grey fine grained volcanic rock composed of plagioclase, pyroxene and olivine, with relatively low silica...
Word of the Week – BHA
BHA Refers to Bottom Hole Assembly, which is the system of tools at the bottom of the drill string that is used for...
Word of the Week – Binary Cycle Power Plant
Binary Cycle Power Plant A power plant in which the produced geothermal fluid passes through a heat exchanger and...
Word of the Week – Breccia
Breccia Angular to sub-angular fragments of broken rock that are cemented together that are highly permeable and form...
Word of the Week – Brine
Brine In producing geothermal fields, this term refers to the hot water that is produced from wells. It is rarely as...
Word of the Week – Cap Rock
Cap Rock A poorly permeable or impermeable layer that overlies a geothermal reservoir. The term is borrowed from the...
Word of the Week – Casing Shoe
Casing Shoe In geothermal wells, this is the bottom of the cemented casing string. Below the casing shoe, the well may...
Word of the Week – Cement Bond Log
Cement Bond Log A geophysical well log that is obtained using a sonic-type tool on a wireline. The result helps to...