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Monday, November 10, 2014

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Exprodat Supports Geothermal Resource Exploration at Utah State University (Virtual-Strategy Magazine - News Release)

Exprodat, the oil and gas GIS services, software and training supplier has provided the Geology Department at Utah State University (College of Science) with licenses of their popular Exploration Analyst and Data Assistant extensions to Esri’s ArcGIS for use in geothermal resource exploration.

John Shervais, Professor of Geology at Utah State University explained more about how the software will help geothermal resource exploration: “Integration and analysis of data is critical if our geothermal Play Fairway Analysis is to be successful. Using Exprodat’s software means we are able to easily and quickly take data from a huge range of sources to build a powerful ArcGIS database and perform geotechnical interpretation.”

The Geology faculty at Utah State University (John Shervais, PI/PD; James Evans, Co-I) has recently received funding from the Department of Energy’s Geothermal Technology Office to adapt Play Fairway Analysis to geothermal systems in southern Idaho, an area of known high heat flow.

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