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

• Published in: Scientific Drilling
• Main Authors: Friðleifsson, Guðmundur Ó., Elders, Wilfred A., Zierenberg, Robert A., Stefánsson, Ari, Fowler, Andrew P. G., Weisenberger, Tobias B., Harðarson, Björn S., Mesfin, Kiflom G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2017
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Reykjanes; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-23-1-2017; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00007877; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00007834/sd-23-1-2017.pdf; https://sd.copernicus.org/articles/23/1/2017/sd-23-1-2017.pdf

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 34 MPa. The southern tip...