Current Ongoing Progress Updates: The Utah FORGE team has started drilling its first highly deviated deep well. Highly deviated wells are frequently drilled for oil and gas production, but not by the geothermal industry. The Utah FORGE team will be one of the first to...
Utah FORGE Drills First of Two Deep Wells The Utah Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE), is excited to announce that the drilling of its first highly deviated deep well has commenced. Highly deviated wells are frequently drilled for oil and...
Pengju Xing (EGI) gave a talk 'Using Flowback and Temperature for Closure Stress Diagnosis' for the...
Utah FORGE Modeling and Simulation Forum #2 "Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation Patterns in the FORGE Reservoir Using Multiple Stochastic DFN Realizations and Variable Stress Conditions" presented by Aleta Finnila (Golder) May 20 at 11 am MDT The presentation includes a...
Introducing the first in a series of ongoing webinars from Utah FORGE. It provides an overview of the geological setting, and the range of geoscience datasets that have been acquired at the Utah FORGE field laboratory. Subscribe HERE to hear about future webinars...
The inaugural Modeling and Simulation Forum was held on April 15, 2020 and if you weren't able to participate you can check out the video recording of the webinar below. Topics that were covered included an overview of the Utah FORGE project, a description of the...
University of Utah and Utah FORGE Announce Solicitation The University of Utah and Utah FORGE are pleased to announce FORGE Solicitation 2020-1. This is the first formal call for research proposals on enhanced geothermal systems technologies from the FORGE program. Up...
The Utah FORGE Team is pleased to announce the inaugural FORGE Modeling and Simulation Forum commencing April 15 at 11 am MDT. It is intended to be an open forum to present modeling and simulation, both completed and planned, activities being conducted by the Utah...
JUST POSTED December 12, 2019, Phase 2C Topical Report is now available on the Geothermal Data Repository (GDR) Direct Link to the Report
"...The thermal energy beneath our feet is enormous (...) if we could capture even 2% of the thermal energy at depths between 2 and 6 miles, we would have more than 2000 times the yearly amount of energy used in the U.S. ..." Dr. Joseph Moore, Manager and PI of...
Science and Technology Analysis Team Formed for FORGE Initiative. As part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) initiative, a diverse group of experts, referred to as the Science and Technology Analysis Team...
In March, 2019, the two new vertical wells for monitoring were completed. The shallow well (68-32) was drilled to 970 ft depth, penetrating alluvial sands and gravel. The deeper well (78-32) was drilled to about 3300 ft depth, having intersected the contact with...