Nevada Geothermal Power Acquires Fourth Geothermal Project Crump Geyser, Oregon
Nevada Geothermal Power Inc. (NGP) has reported that they have acquired geothermal leases on 6,500 acres of private land covering the "Crump Geyser" and an extensive hot spring system in southern Oregon. The leases are on private land, and NGP has free access on the surface for exploration and development and the right to lease land required for the plant site, production well field, pipelines and transmission line right of ways.
Geothermal assessments by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Federal Bureau of Land Management in 2003 ranked the Crump Geyser Known Geothermal Resource Area as highly favourable (a "top pick") for near-term geothermal power development. In the mid 1980s, Gordon Bloomquist visited the site on behalf of the Bonneville Power Administration; at that time, geothermometry indicated source water temperatures of 365 degrees F and the resource potential was estimated at 85 MW.