The INGENIOUS project has completed the compilation of various geoscientific datasets on the Great Basin region in western U.S., forming the foundation for predictive workflows.
The Innovative Geothermal Exploration through Novel Investigations Of Undiscovered Systems (INGENIOUS) project under the Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) has announced a major project milestone – the completion of multiple geological, geochemical, and geophysical datasets for the broader Great Basin region of the western U.S.
All the datasets compiled by the INGENIOUS project can be downloaded via the Geothermal Data Repository. The datasets include shapefules, geotiffs, spreadsheets, and metadata from temperature probe surveys, geological features, magnetotellurics, surface thermal features, seismicity, and geochemistry analyses among others.
With this development, the project has received approval from the DOE to proceed to Phase 2 where the data will be used in developing predictive exploration workflows for hidden geothermal systems.
The primary goal of the INGENIOUS project is to accelerate the discovery of new and commercially viable hidden geothermal systems while reducing exploration and development risks. Hidden geothermal systems refer to systems that show no surface characteristics such as hot springs or steam vents.
The proposed predictive workflow will integrate techniques such as play fairway analysis (PFA), machine learning, resource capacity estimation, 3D and conceptual modeling, advanced geostatistics, and value of information (VOI) analysis. We reported on the beginnings of this project back in 2020.
The project has received funding of USD 10 million from the DOE and is expected to be completed by 2025.
Source: INGENIOUS Project and Bridget Ayling via LinkedIn