The Iceland Deep Drilling Project: A search for deep unconventional geothermal resources

Geothermics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 269-285

  Fridleifsson, Gudmundur O ^a   Elders, Wilfred A ^b  

^a ICELAND GEOSURVEY   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Geothermal energy; Mid Atlantic Ridge; Scientific drilling; Supercritical fluids; Well bore flow

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; COMPETITION; COSTS; DRILLING; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; ROCKS; SAMPLING; STEAM; SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS;

DEEP DRILLING; HIGH-ENTHALPY STEAM; ICELAND; SEISMIC ACTIVITY;

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY;

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; ICELAND; WORLD;

EID: 19144362878     PISSN: 03756505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2004.11.004     Document Type: Article

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