Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center

Key Specs

Full Name: Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center

Development Phase: Operational

Installed Capacity: 0.3 MW

Operational Capacity: 0.15 MW

Investment:  

Completion Date: 2009

Location: Wyoming

Country: United States

Region: North America

The Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center (RMOTC) is located at the Teapot Dome Oil Field, also known as the Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 3 (NPR-3). The field is 35 miles north of Casper, Wyoming. NPR-3 is operated by the Department of Energy as both a producing oil field and a test site for new and developing oil and gas and renewable energy related technologies.

The field is a 9,481-acre operating stripper well oil field offering a full complement of associated facilities and equipment on site. There have been 1,319 wells drilled in the field with 589 of them plugged and abandoned. Of the 730 remaining wellbores, 300 are producing wells in nine producing reservoirs ranging in depth
from 250 to 5,500 feet. The remaining wellbores are temporarily shut-in or are used for testing.

Two formations at NPR-3, the Tensleep and Madison formations, produce sufficient hot water for the generation of low-temperature geothermal energy. The current flowing water resource from these formations is 45,000 barrels of water per day (BWPD). The average production temperature for the Tensleep is 195-200 B0F and for the Madison is 200-210 B0F. (US DOE)