{"id":441,"date":"2008-05-06T08:25:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T15:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=441"},"modified":"2008-05-06T08:25:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T15:25:21","slug":"10mw-well-at-the-geysers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"10MW well at The Geysers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/wgp-well1-flowtest.jpg\" alt=\"Flow test of WGP Well #1 at The Geysers in April, 2008\" \/><br \/><small>Attribution: Western GeoPower<\/small><\/center><\/div>\n<p>If they all produce like well #1, Western GeoPower will be able to save some money on drilling. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geopower.ca\/news%202008\/06may2008.htm\" target=\"_blank\" >The company announced today<\/a> after an eight hour flow test that the well produced steam at 1,200 kg\/minute flow rate &#8211; good for around 10MW\/hr of electricity. Sustained production rates are predicted to be in the 7MW range. The reservoir is pressurized at 280 psia, higher than the predicted 250 psia; both the flow test and reservoir pressure may indicate that there is more resource in the leasehold than was previously predicted.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis is the site of PG&#038;E&#8217;s old Unit 15, a 60+MW plant that was decommissioned in 1989 after reservoir pressures dropped dramatically due to over production. WGP&#8217;s original plan called for a 25MWe harvest unit, they&#8217;re now up to 35MWe, and perhaps we&#8217;ll see that boosted even higher. It would be a terrible waste to repeat the mistakes of 20 years ago and not manage the reservoir in a sustainable manner. We trust WGP is sensitive to this issue and will take steps to maximize production while keeping the resource viable.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attribution: Western GeoPower If they all produce like well #1, Western GeoPower will be able to save some money on drilling. The company announced today after an eight hour flow test that the well produced steam at 1,200 kg\/minute flow rate &#8211; good for around 10MW\/hr of electricity. Sustained production rates are predicted to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gI6x-77","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}