Add examples/case-studies of real-world geothermal systems

[softwareengineerprogrammer]

GEOPHIRES should include input/output examples for real-world geothermal systems. These examples will serve to calibrate and validate GEOPHIRES's calculations.

[softwareengineerprogrammer]

Candidate example: Eavor publishes 4-year update on Eavor-Lite demonstration project in Canada

[softwareengineerprogrammer]

Drilling operations at Fervo’s Cape Station show 70% year-over-year reduction in drilling times and pave the way for rapid geothermal deployment

Fervo has consistently reduced drilling times and costs in horizontal, high-temperature, deep granite drilling. Though Cape wells are hotter and over 2,100 feet deeper than Project Red wells, Fervo drilled its fastest Cape well in just 21 days, a 70% reduction in drilling time from Fervo’s first horizontal well drilled at Project Red in 2022. This increase in drilling efficiency has translated into significant cost reductions, with drilling costs across the first four horizontal wells at Cape falling from $9.4 million to $4.8 million per well.

Paper: https://pangea.stanford.edu/ERE/db/GeoConf/papers/SGW/2024/Elsadi.pdf?t=1706897516

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Paper: Geology, State of Stress, and Heat in Place for a Horizontal Well Geothermal Development
Project at Blue Mountain, Nevada

[softwareengineerprogrammer]

SHR: Newberry Volcano in OR = classic example, Maxama recently awarded large grant for additional work

[softwareengineerprogrammer]

Fervo https://pangea.stanford.edu/ERE/db/GeoConf/papers/SGW/2023/Fercho.pdf

[softwareengineerprogrammer]

CATF report: A Preliminary Techno-Economic Model of Superhot Rock Energy: https://www.catf.us/resource/preliminary-techno-economic-model-superhot-rock-energy/ (pdf)

[softwareengineerprogrammer]

Initial implementation for Fervo tentatively slated to be on https://github.com/malcolm-dsider/geophires-x-nrel/tree/fervo-case-study

[softwareengineerprogrammer]

Fervo: https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/5704/

[malcolm-dsider]

I have placed a copy of the PDF in the References section of our repository. It will appear in the main repository next time I do a Pull request. From: Jonathan Pezzino ***@***.***> Sent: Monday, May 6, 2024 11:37 AM To: NREL/GEOPHIRES-X ***@***.***> Cc: Malcolm Ross ***@***.***>; Assign ***@***.***> Subject: Re: [NREL/GEOPHIRES-X] Add examples/case-studies of real-world geothermal systems (Issue #87) Fervo: https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/5704/ — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#87 (comment)> , or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AWGVYT6BLBT6A64TRS6XTKDZA6WTHAVCNFSM6AAAAABBXILBLGVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDAOJWGQ2TSMBZGY> . You are receiving this because you were assigned. <https://github.com/notifications/beacon/AWGVYTYZVCGMD5XRIZM53ADZA6WTHA5CNFSM6AAAAABBXILBLGWGG33NNVSW45C7OR4XAZNMJFZXG5LFINXW23LFNZ2KUY3PNVWWK3TUL5UWJTT46VWVQ.gif> Message ID: ***@***.*** ***@***.***> >

[softwareengineerprogrammer]

@malcolm-dsider Suggest we don't include the paper PDFs themselves as the large file size has negative performance impacts and other thorny technical complications.

Let's either just use standard citations in context (as I've already done for this paper here: softwareengineerprogrammer@030212a#diff-68569bbc99a61381b74ad07a4d3f66b28463215381a74f76739bc8d4206e6402R2-R4), or if necessary, create a separate GEOPHIRES references repository.

[malcolm-dsider]

But we already have 13 PDF files in the reference section… and one XLS. And one TXT…. From: Jonathan Pezzino ***@***.***> Sent: Monday, May 6, 2024 11:48 AM To: NREL/GEOPHIRES-X ***@***.***> Cc: Malcolm Ross ***@***.***>; Mention ***@***.***> Subject: Re: [NREL/GEOPHIRES-X] Add examples/case-studies of real-world geothermal systems (Issue #87) @malcolm-dsider <https://github.com/malcolm-dsider> Suggest we don't include the paper PDFs themselves as the large file size has negative performance impacts and other thorny technical complications. Let's either just use standard citations in context (as I've already done for this paper here: softwareengineerprogrammer@ <softwareengineerprogrammer@030212a#diff-68569bbc99a61381b74ad07a4d3f66b28463215381a74f76739bc8d4206e6402R2-R4> 030212a#diff-68569bbc99a61381b74ad07a4d3f66b28463215381a74f76739bc8d4206e6402R2-R4), or if necessary, create a separate GEOPHIRES references repository. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#87 (comment)> , or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AWGVYT7PYEALJ5PCARRK3VLZA6X4PAVCNFSM6AAAAABBXILBLGVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDAOJWGQ4DEMRRGE> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned. <https://github.com/notifications/beacon/AWGVYT423ZSTVEWF7227453ZA6X4PA5CNFSM6AAAAABBXILBLGWGG33NNVSW45C7OR4XAZNMJFZXG5LFINXW23LFNZ2KUY3PNVWWK3TUL5UWJTT46XD2G.gif> Message ID: ***@***.*** ***@***.***> >

[softwareengineerprogrammer]

@malcolm-dsider Yes, those are present and they have/do cause issues so we shouldn't add more; also if we were to create a separate repository as I suggested, we would move those files there.

[softwareengineerprogrammer]

#288

[softwareengineerprogrammer]

#290

[softwareengineerprogrammer]

Considering this resolved by addition of Fervo Project Red (#202) and Project Cape (#288) examples