John W. Shervais Jonathan M.G. Glen Dennis Nielson Sabodh Garg Patrick Dobson Erika Gasperikova Eric Sonnenthal Lee M. Liberty Drew Lorenz Siler James P. Evans Jacob DeAngelo 2024 <p id="spara013">Play Fairway Analysis (PFA) in geothermal exploration originates from a systematic methodology developed within the petroleum industry and is based on a geologic, geophysical, and hydrologic framework of identified geothermal systems. We tailored this methodology to study the geothermal resource potential of the Snake River Plain and surrounding region, but it can be adapted to other geothermal resource settings. We adapted the PFA approach to geothermal resource exploration by cataloging the critical elements controlling exploitable hydrothermal systems, establishing risk matrices that evaluate these elements in terms of both probability of success and level of knowledge, and building a code-based ‘processing model’ to process results.</p> application/pdf 10.1016/j.geothermics.2023.102882 en Elsevier Geothermal Play Fairway Analysis, Part 2: GIS methodology article