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Sep 02, 2008Popular Mechanics covers Benefits of High Temperature Geothermal Energy
Geothermal energy’s exposure is growing slowly, but having widely distributed science magazines talking about the benefits of high temperature geothermal can only help the cause!
Popular Mechanics Article
“Geothermal Energy Heats Up, 5 Next-Gen Projects Take Shape”
The power of geothermal energy has long been overshadowed by its alternative brothers. With Google’s splashy investment bringing so-called enhanced geothermal to the front page, a geyser’s worth of new projects are about to tap the power of scalding groundwater.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/earth/4279680.html?page=2
Sep 02, 2008
Western GeoPower: Two Geyser Wells show 12.6MW Initial Capacity
CanGEA GOLD Member Western GeoPower Press Release
VANCOUVER, Canada, September 2, 2008, TSX Venture Exchange Trading
Symbol: WGP – Western GeoPower Corp., a renewable energy development company, today announced that testing of well WGP-2 at the Company’s Unit 1 project at The Geysers Geothermal Field in California has confirmed that the well is a producer, with an initial capacity of 2.6 MW (gross). Together with the flow rate of approximately 161,000 lb/hr
(73,028 kg/hr) demonstrated by well WGP-1 as announced May 6, 2008, the first two wells together have an initial capacity of 203,500 lb/hr
(92,306 kg/hr) of steam, representing 12.6 MW (gross). The wells will supply steam to the 35 MWe Western GeoPower Unit 1 plant, projected to start commercial operations in early 2010.
Well WGP-2 was directionally drilled to the north-north-east of the pad to a total depth of 9,935 feet (3,028 m). A rig test carried out by independent consultants GeothermEx, Inc. demonstrated an initial, unstabilized steam flow rate of about 42,500 lb/hr (19,300 kg/hr) at the design flowing wellhead pressure of approximately 80 psia. The rig has been moved to the Filley leasehold and has commenced drilling well WGP-3 which has been designed to intersect known productive zones to the north of the pad. Completion of WGP-3 is projected for November.
“We are pleased to report that the combined productivity of the initial two wells exceeds our earlier expectations,” said Kenneth MacLeod, President and Chief Executive Officer of Western GeoPower. “Current projections call for the drilling of four to six additional production wells and one injector well, scheduled for completion in late 2009.”
The Geysers geothermal field, located 75 miles north of San Francisco, California, is the largest producer of geothermal electricity in the world. Commercial geothermal power has been generated continuously at The Geysers field since 1960, the present generation level being about 900 MWe of clean, baseload electricity. Western GeoPower’s Unit 1 project is situated in the south-western
Congratulations Western GeoPower and good luck with future production wells!!
