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Apr 23, 2009CanGEA Corporate Member News: “Testing Demonstrates Potentially Commercial Permeability”
News from CanGEA corporate member Western GeoPower Corporation:
Western GeoPower Corp., a renewable energy company, today announced that independent consultants GeothermEx, Inc., have recommended a drilling program at the South Meager geothermal reservoir to target a recently-identified zone of high permeability which has demonstrated commercial potential.
Reporting on the results of airlift-assisted flow-testing of well MC-8, GeothermEx projected that a new deviated well starting from a lower wellhead elevation into the same permeable zone and at a much shorter vertical depth than well MC-8 would flow at the equivalent of more than 6 megawatts (MW) of electrical energy. Well MC-8 itself was unable to sustain self-flow following air lifting due to physical constraints imposed by the deep water table.
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