Webinar:

Geothermal Exploration Technologies - How and where are they being used in the U.S.

The Department of Energy’s Geothermal Technologies Program (GTP), in partnership with Western Area Power Administration, is offering a free one hour webinar on February 15, 2012 at 10:00 am MST entitled: Geothermal Exploration Technologies - How and where are they being used in the U.S. 

Geologists are now using a combination of new exploration technologies and historically available technologies applied in unique combinations to determine the geothermal potential in an area of interest. The webinar will focus on the applications of these combinations, which include:

• seismology, which began with a significant role in the oil and gas industry, 
• gravimetry studies, which can identify granite bodies that are indicators of geothermal potential, 
• tellurics and magnetotellurics, which can detect resistivity anomalies associated with productive geothermal structures, and 
• geochemistry, which relates surface fluid properties and geologic data to geothermal bodies 

The 60 minute webinar is are part of GTP's activities to build on the technical research base that DOE has developed over the last two decades. This technical base will provide information and understanding necessary to create new and more efficient and reliable technologies and to enable the U.S. geothermal industry to compete for baseload electricity generation.