A plan for a 5 km-deep borehole at Reykjanes, Iceland, into the root zone of a black smoker on land
A summary workshop report describing the progress made so far by the Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP) is presented below. The report provides recommendations concerning technical aspects related to deep drilling, and invites international participation in both the engineering and the scientific...
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ftcopernicus:oai:publications.copernicus.org:sd21617 2023-05-15T16:46:32+02:00 A plan for a 5 km-deep borehole at Reykjanes, Iceland, into the root zone of a black smoker on land Friðleifsson, G. Ó. Elders, W. A. Bignall, G. 2018-01-15 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-16-73-2013 https://sd.copernicus.org/articles/16/73/2013/ eng eng doi:10.5194/sd-16-73-2013 https://sd.copernicus.org/articles/16/73/2013/ eISSN: 1816-3459 Text 2018 ftcopernicus https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-16-73-2013 2020-07-20T16:25:17Z A summary workshop report describing the progress made so far by the Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP) is presented below. The report provides recommendations concerning technical aspects related to deep drilling, and invites international participation in both the engineering and the scientific activities of the next phase of the IDDP. No issues were identified at the workshop that should rule out attempting the drilling, sampling and testing of the proposed IDDP-2 well. Although technically challenging, the consensus of the workshop was that the drilling of such a hot deep well, and producing potentially hostile fluids, is possible but requires careful contingency planning. The future well will be explored for supercritical fluid and/or superheated steam beneath the current production zone of the Reykjanes geothermal field in SW Iceland. This deep borehole will provide the first opportunity worldwide to directly investigate the root zone of a magma-hydrothermal system which is likely to be similar to those beneath the black smokers on the world-encircling mid-ocean rift systems. Text Iceland Copernicus Publications: E-Journals Reykjanes ENVELOPE(-22.250,-22.250,65.467,65.467) Scientific Drilling 16 73 79 |
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A summary workshop report describing the progress made so far by the Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP) is presented below. The report provides recommendations concerning technical aspects related to deep drilling, and invites international participation in both the engineering and the scientific activities of the next phase of the IDDP. No issues were identified at the workshop that should rule out attempting the drilling, sampling and testing of the proposed IDDP-2 well. Although technically challenging, the consensus of the workshop was that the drilling of such a hot deep well, and producing potentially hostile fluids, is possible but requires careful contingency planning. The future well will be explored for supercritical fluid and/or superheated steam beneath the current production zone of the Reykjanes geothermal field in SW Iceland. This deep borehole will provide the first opportunity worldwide to directly investigate the root zone of a magma-hydrothermal system which is likely to be similar to those beneath the black smokers on the world-encircling mid-ocean rift systems. |
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