Imaging, Characterizing and Modelling Canada’s Geothermal Resources

Stories about this project:

The purpose of this project is to identify Canadian geothermal resources, characterize the reservoirs in which the resources are found, and model the thermodynamic and hydrogeologic processes that occur during geothermal resource exploitation. Research is focused on the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, the southern Rocky Mountain Trench in British Columbia and the Tintina Trench in the Yukon. Activities in this project are sponsored both by local municipalities looking for pragmatic ways to exploit their geothermal resources, as well as geothermal developers looking to build Canada's first geothermal power plants.

Faculty and academic staff involved in this project include:

Martyn Unsworth (EAS/Physics): Exploration geophysics

Nick Harris (EAS): Reservoir characterization

Jonathan Banks (EAS): Geochemistry; cross-over with Project 2

Status

Active
Theme

Geothermal
Principal Investigator

Unsworth, Martyn
Graduate students, Post-Doctoral Fellows, and Highly Qualified Personnel

Finley, Theron

Hanneson, Cedar

Lee, Benjamin

Noyahr, Christopher

Renaud, Evan

Wang, Zhirui
Alumni

Ansell, Michael

Bettac, Sean

Good, Cody

Key, Garrett

Lavigne, Casey
Project Assistant

Banks, Jonathan

Craig, Shyra
Faculties

Science

Project Files

3-D MT study of Southeast British Columbia

Martyn Unsworth, Cedar Hanneson

Misc

Characterizing Deep Basin Siliciclastic Reservoirs for Geothermal Use Near Hinton, Alberta

Jonathan Banks, Nick Harris, Christopher Noyahr

Conference/Workshop

Completed Lab Renovations

Jonathan Banks, Nick Harris

Misc: Lab Development

Geothermal resource characterization of the Slave Point Formation at Clarke Lake Field, B.C., Canada

Jonathan Banks, Nick Harris, Evan Renaud

Conference/Workshop

Geothermal resource characterization of the Slave Point Formation at Clarke Lake Field, B.C., Canada

Jonathan Banks, Nick Harris, Evan Renaud

Conference/Workshop

Growing the North Conference Presentation

Conference/Workshop

Hired Therme Adminstrator

Jonathan Banks, Martyn Unsworth

Misc

Magneto-telluric field work

Cedar Hanneson, Benjamin Lee

Misc: Research

Petrophysical Characterization of a Geothermal Reservoir near Hinton, Alberta

Jonathan Banks, Nick Harris, Christopher Noyahr

Conference/Workshop

Ross River Geothermal Well Drilling

Misc: Research

Structural Mapping Field Work

Theron Finley, Noah Van Camp, Samuel Johnson

Misc: Research

Hugh Morris Fellowship

Award

NSERC CGSM scholarship to Theron Finley

Award

QE2 scholarship to Cedar Hanneson

Award

Walter H. Johns Fellowship

Award

Dynamic geothermal reservoir modeling in the Clarke Lake Gas Field, NE British Columbia

Jonathan Banks, Nick Harris, Evan Renaud

Research Report

Geological Society of America Conference Poster

Jonathan Banks, Nick Harris, Evan Renaud

Conference Proceedings

Geological Society of America Conference Presentation

Conference Proceedings

Geothermal Theme Website

Jonathan Banks, Shyra Craig

Website

Lab Equipment Installation

Jonathan Banks, Nick Harris

Misc: lab Development

Presentation at Cordilleran Tectonics workshop

Jonathan Banks, Martyn Unsworth, Theron Finley

Conference Proceedings

Resource Assessment of Geothermal Reservoir in Western Alberta and Evaluation of Utilization Options Using Non-Renewable Energy Displacement

Masters Thesis

Sedimentary Basin Geothermal Favourabiity Mapping and Power Generation Assessments.

Scholarly Refereed Journal

Techno-economic Assessment of Geothermal Energy Resources in the Sedimentary Basin in Northeastern British Columbia

Research Report

Using Oil and Gas Data to Estimate Geothermal Resources in Sedimentary Basing: A Case Study from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

Jonathan Banks, Nick Harris

Scholarly Refereed Journal