The Iceland Deep Drilling Project 4.5 km deep well, IDDP-2, in the seawater-recharged Reykjanes geothermal field in SW Iceland has successfully reached its supercritical target

• Main Authors: Friðleifsson, Guðmundur Ó, Elders, Wilfred A, Zierenberg, Robert A, Stefánsson, Ari, Fowler, Andrew PG, Weisenberger, Tobias B, Harðarson, Björn S, Mesfin, Kiflom G
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2017
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Geochemistry & Geophysics; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Reykjanes; Iceland
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7nm6x29p

The Iceland Deep Drilling Project research well RN-15/IDDP-2 at Reykjanes, Iceland, reached its target of supercritical conditions at a depth of 4.5 km in January 2017. After only 6 days of heating, the measured bottom hole temperature was 426 °C, and the fluid pressure was 34MPa. The southern tip o...