37th Workshop on Geothermal

Reservoir Engineering 2012

Stanford Geothermal Program Workshop Report SGP-TR-194

Stanford, California, USA

30 January - 1 February 2012

Volume 2 of 2

ISBN: 978-1-61839-966-3

Computational EGS I -- Heat Transport in 1/f-noise Fractured Media 784.

Peter LEARY, Justin POGACNIK, Peter MAUN

Mechanical Properties of Intact Rock and Fractures in Welded Tuff from Newberry Volcano 797

YaweiLI, Jihoon WANG, Woodong JUNG, and Ahmad GHASSEM1

Quantifying Changes of Geophysical Properties in Small Regions within EGS Reservoirs

Youzuo LIN, Lianjie HUANG and Zhigang ZHANG

Supercritical C02 in a Granite-Hosted Geothermal System: Experimental Insights into

Multiphase Fluid-Rock Interactions

LO RE, Caroline; KASZUBA, John; MOORE, Joseph; MCPHERSON, Brian

The Effect of Fault Zone Development on Induced Seismicity

Mark MCCLURE and Roland HORNE

Approach for Determination of the Failure Probability of Fractures at the Soultz-sous-Forets

EGS Project

Carola MELLER, Thomas KOHL, Emmanuel GAUCHER

A Multi-modality Fiber Optic Sensing Cable for Monitoring Enhanced Geothermal Systems

S. PALIT, W. CHALLENER, J. LOPEZ, S. MANDAL, H. XIA, R. JONES, R. CRADDOCK,L. ZHAO, M. IRSHAD, T. MACDOUGALL, P. SANDERS, B. HERBST, B. VILLIGER, J.

HENFLING, S. LINDBLOM, F. MALDO

Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Modeling of Working Fluid Injection and Thermal EnergyExtraction in EGS Fractures and Rock Matrix

Robert PODGORNEY, ChuanLU, and Hai HUANG

C02-EGS in Hot Dry Rock: Preliminary Results from C02-Rock Interaction Experiments

Alvin I. REMOROZA, BehdadMOGHTADERI, Elham DOROODCHI

Geothermal Resource Assessment: A Detailed Approach to Low-Grade Resources in the States

of New York and Pennsylvania

ElainaN. SHOPE, Timothy J. REBER, George R. STUTZ, Gloria A. AGUIRRE, Teresa E.

JORDAN, Jefferson W. TESTER

Stress Heterogeneity and Natural Fractures in the Basel EGS Granite Reservoir Inferred from

an Acoustic Televiewer Log in the Basel-1 Well

Sakalima G. SIKANETA, Keith F. EVANS

A Well by Well Method for Estimating Surface Heat Flow For Regional Geothermal Resource

Assessment

George STUTZ, Mitchell WILLIAMS, Zachory FRONE, Tim REBER, DavidBLACKWELL,

Teresa JORDAN, Jefferson TESTER

On the Role of Thermal Stress in Reservoir Stimulation

Sergej TARASOVS, Ahmad GHASSEMI

Hydraulic Fracturing in Limestone: A Case Study of Two EGS Projects in the Netherlands 928

Kees VANDER HOORN, Noortje HEIJNEN, MarkGANKEMA, Gerrit NJTTERS

A 3 D Thermal-poroelastic Model for Geothermal Reservoir Stimulation 936

Xiaonan WANG, Ahmad GHASSEMI

Connectivity Analysis of the Habanero Enhanced Geothermal System 947.

ChaoshuiXU, PeterAlan DOWD, Doom WYBORN, Rosemarie MOHAIS

Mineral Carbonation in an Enhanced Geothermal System Using C02 as Heat Transmission

Fluid

Tianfu XU

Microholes for Improved Heat Extraction from EGS Reservoirs: Numerical Evaluation 962

Yingqi ZHANG, Lehua PAN, Patrick DOBSON, Ken OGLESBY, Stefan FINSTERLE

Geochemistry

Geochemical Modeling of a Hydrothermal System of the Pauzhetka Geothermal Production

Field

Margarita V. ART1MENKO, GalinaP. KOROLEVA, Konstantin V. CHUDNENKO

Soil Gas Flux Exploration at the Rotokawa Geothermal Field and White Island, New Zealand

Simon BLOOMBERG, Clinton R1SSMANN, Agnes MAZOT, Christopher OZE, Travis

HORTON, Darren GRAVLEY, Ben KENNEDY, Cynthia WERNER, Bruce CHRISTENSON

andJoanna PAWSON

Geochemistry of a Sub-Glacial Volcanic Hydrothermal System at Mount Spurr, Alaska

GARCHAR, L., MARTINIB., OWENS, L., WENDLANDT, R.

The Impact of High Noncondensible Gas Concentration on Well Performance: Kizildere

Geothermal Reservoir, Turkey

Jill Robinson HAIZLIP, Aygun GUNEY, Fusun S. TUT HAKLIDIR, andSabodh GARG

Hydrothermal Carbonate Geochemistry of the Ngatamariki Subsurface Reservoir, New

Zealand

Travis W. HORTON, Lee ATKINSON and Christopher OZE

Geochemical Appraisal of Bakreshwar-Tantloi Hot Springs of West Bengal and Jharkhand,

India

D.K. MUKHOPADHYAYandP.B. SAROLKAR

Sulphur Precipitation in the Reykjanes Geothermal System, Iceland

E. Kevin PAD1LLA, Andri STEFANSSON, Thrainn FRIDRIKSSON

System and Methodology for Rapid Evaluation of Geothermal Rock-Fluid Interactions

Associated with C02-EGS

Miroslav PETRO, Li SONG, Alan BELL, Alexander TUGANOV, Keshav PARAJULY,

PatrickDOBSON, TianfuXU, Karsten PRUESS

Geochemical and Mineralogical Monitoring of the Geothermal Power Plant in Soultz-sous-

For6ts (France)

Julia SCHE1BER, Fabian NITSCHKE, Andrea SEIBT, Albert GENTER

Geophysics

Self-Potential Survey Results From the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range, California

Steve AIM, Andrew SABIN, Steven BJORNSTAD, Andrew T1EDEMAN, JeffSHOFFNER

Borehole Image Log and Statistical Analysis of FOH-3D, Fallon Naval Air Station, NV

Kelly BLAKE and Nick DA VA TZES

Preliminary Study of Down-Hole Resistivity from 72 Boreholes in S-Hengill Geothermal Field,

SW-Iceland, with respect to Surface Resistivity Data and Alteration Minerals

Svanbjdrg Helga HARALDSDOTTIR, Hjalti FRANZSON andKnutur ARNASON

Geothermal Seismology: The State of the Art

Bruce R. JULIAN and Gillian R. FOULGER

Mapping of Fluid Compartments with Micro-Seismicity and Seismic Velocities Within the

Coso Geothermal Field, California

J. Ole KA VEN, Stephen H. HICKMAN, Nicholas C. DA VATZES

Use of Seismic Imaging to Identify Geothermal Reservoirs at the Hot Pot Area, Nevada

Michael LANE, Richard SCHWEICKERT, Ted DeROCHER

Heat Flux Monitoring Using Satellite Based Imagery at Karapiti (Craters of the Moon)Fumarole Area, Taupo, New Zealand

Md, Bodmddoza MIA, Chris J. BROMLEY, Yasuhiro FUJIMITSU

Eburru Geothermal Prospect, Kenya - Joint ID inversion of MT and TEM Data

AnnaMWANGl

Monitoring EGS Fluids with Magnetotellurics

JaredPEACOCK, Stephan THIEL, Graham HEINSON, Malhieu MESSEILLER, Peter

REID, Martin HAND

New Methods and Instruments for Determination of Reservoir Thermal Properties

Yury POPOV, Mna BAYUK, Anton PARSHIN, Dmitry MIKLASHEVSKIY, SergeyNOVIKOV, Evgeny CHEKHONIN

Analysis of Seismic Anisotropy in Los Humeros Geothermal Field, Mexico

Hector RODRIGUEZ, Javier LERMO, Edgar URBAN

3D Inversion of MT Data in Geothermal Exploration: a Workflow and Application to Hengill,j

Iceland

Gudni Karl ROSENKJAER and Douglas W. OLDENBURG

Coupled Measurements of Thermopysical and Hydraulical Properties of Unsaturated and^ ^

Unconsolidated Rocks" ~

lngo SASS andJohannes STEGNER

The Role of Structural Changes for Geothermal Projects in the Area of Basel 1157

EvaSCHILL, Luca GUGLIELMETTI, Philip KLINGLER, Yassine ABDELFETTAH, Andres

ALCOLEA

Integrated Approach To Interpretation Of Magnetotelluric Study at Wairakei, New Zealand 1166

Fabian SEPULVEDA, Warren MANNINGTON, Greg USSHER, Jacques CHARROY

Integrated MT and Natural State Temperature Interpretation for a Conceptual Model

Supporting Reservoir Numerical Modelling and Well Targeting at the Rotokawa Geothermal 1174

Field, New Zealand

Steve SEWELL, William GUMMING, Liitfhie Azwar, Candice Bardsley

Declined Mass Trends of Unbalanced Production to Recharge Activity in Kamojang ^ j ^Geothermal Field, Indonesia: a Continuous Monitoring with Hybrid Gravimetry

Yayan SOFYAN, Yunus DAUD, Supriyanto SUPARNO, Ahmad YANI, TommyHERDIANSYAH, Jun NISHIJIMA, Yasuhiro FUJIMITSU, Sachio EHARA and Yoichi

FUKUDA

An Investigation of the Microseismic Events in the Salton Sea Geothermal Field 1189

Jingbo WANG, Dennise C. TEMPLETON, Dave B. HARRIS

Double-Difference Elastic-Waveform Inversion with Weighted Gradients for Monitoring EGS

Reservoirs

Zhigang ZHANG, Lianjie HUANG, Youzuo LIN

1197

Geology

Formation of Hydrothermal-Magmatic Systems Skarn Type 1205

Vladimir BELOUSO V, Irina BELOUSO VA, Yuri F1L1PPO V

Subsurface Mapping Of Natural Fracture Networks; A Major Challenge To Be Solved. Case^14

Study From The Shale Intervals In The Cooper Basin, South Australia.

Hani Abul KHAIR, Guillaume BACKE, RosalindKING, Dennis COOKE, Mark TINGAY,Simon HOLFORD

Local Conceptual Model of the North-Paramushir Hydrothermal System (North Kuril Island) 1228

Olga KHUBAEVA, Irina BOIKOVA, Antonina NIKOLAEVA

Exploration of the Akutan Geothermal Resource Area 1234

Amanda KOLKER, Peter STELLING, William CUMMING, and David ROHRS

Updated Hydrogeological Model of the Bacon-Manito Geothermal Field, Philippines 1244

Sylvia G. RAMOS andNovelwin E. A. SANTOS

Investigating Deviations from Overall Porosity-permeability Trends 1248

Rikke WEIBEL, Lars KRJSTENSEN, Mette OLIVARIUS, Morten L. HJULER, Anders

MATHIESEN, Lars HenrikNIELSEN

Direct Use

The Potential of Shallow Groundwater Resources for Cooling Purposes - a Geothermal Case

Study in North East Jordan

Sana'aAL-ZYOUD, Wolfram RUHAAK, & Ingo SASS

Modeling the Thermal Effects of Ground Source Heat Exchange at Stanford University: A ^73Preliminary Study

Morgan AMES, Roland N. HORNE

Thermal Response Testing of Geothermal Wells for Downhole Heat Exchanger Applications 1278

Andrew CHIASSON

Low-Temperature Geothermal Resources for District Heating: An Energy-Economic Model of

West Virginia University Case Study

XiaoningHE, Brian J. ANDERSON

Amount of Exploitable Thermal Water from Hodmezovasarhcly Geothermal Reservoir in

Hungary

Aniko N. TOTH

Low Temperature

Power Generation Potential from Coproduced Fluids in the Los Angeles Basin 1297

Kara BENNETT, Kewen LI, and Roland N. HORNE

Hot Sedimentary Aquifer Characterization Using Stratigraphic Forward Modelling, Perth

Basin, Australia

CORBEL, S„ GRIFFITHS, C, DYT, C. and RICARD, L.P.

The Influence of Reservoir Heterogeneity on Geothermal Fluid and Methane Recovery from a^ j q

Geopressured Geothermal Reservoir

Ariel ESPOSITO, ChadAUGUSTINE

The Analysis of Expansion Thermal Response Test (TRT) for Borehole Heat Exchangers (BHE) 1324

Andrzej GONET, Tomasz SLIWA, Albert ZLOTKOWSKI, Aneta SAPINSKA-SL1WA, Jan

MACUDA

Modeling the Effects of Direct Use on the Tauranga Low-Temperature Geothermal System,^30

New Zealand

Sophie PEARSON

Rational Thermo-Dynamic Parameters of Cycles of a Multi-Stage Geothermal Power Station 1339

AndriyREDKO

Power Generation from Low Temperature Geothermal Resources at Huabei Oilfield 1344

Shouliang XIN, Fan DONG, Hongbin LIANG, and Kewen LI

Starting Field Test of Kalina System using Hot Spring Fluid in Japan 1350

Norio YANAGISAWA, Hirofumi MURAOKA, Mimetake SASAKI, Hajime SUGITA, Sei-

ichiro IOKA, Masatake SATO and Kazumi OSATO

General

Techno-Economic Analysis of Biorefinery Utilizing Geothermal Energy for Processing 1358

Sudhanya BANERJEE, Jordan TIARKS, Yanan ZHANG, Song-Chartig KONG, Terrence

MEYER, Robert C. BROWN, Brian ANDERSON

Occupational Risk Assessment for Hydrogen Sulfide Concentrations from a Geothermal Powerj ^

Plant

Daniel CASTILLO, Guadalupe GONZALEZ, Nayeli MEDINA

Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of Geothermal Systems .1371

Corrie CLARK, John SULLIVAN, Chris HARTO, Jeongwoo HAN, and Michael WANG

Gigawatt-Year Geothermal Energy Storage Coupled to Nuclear Reactors and LargeConcentrated Solar Thermal Systems

Charles FORSBERG

Research Priorities for the Australian Geothermal Industry 1391

Cameron R. HUDDLESTONE-HOLMES, Anthony BUDD, Hal GURGENCI, Martin

HAND, Peter LEARY, Behdad MOGHTADERI, Tim RAWLING andKlaus REGENAUER-

LIEB

Integrated Risk Assessment for Geothermal Energy Development and Evaluation 1401

Thomas LOWRY, Elena KALININA, Tekhi HADGU, Sean MCKENNA

Extended Reach and High Inclination Drilling Geothermal Well in Wayang Windu 1404

Jose PRIHUTOMO, Yudi HARTONO, Jeffri SAMOSIR, Roberto ABANES

Thermally Induced Permeability Reduction due to Particle Migration in Sandstones: The\4\4

Effect of Temperature on Kaolinite Mobilisation and Aggregation~ ~

Esther ROSENBRAND, Ida Lykke FABR1CIUS, Hao YUAN

Surface Water Potential Analysis and Groundwater Conservation Concept of KamojangGeothermal Field ~

Nenny Miryani SAPTADJI and Yudha ARTIKA

Building a Community-based Data Network for Geothermal Energy 1431

Walters. SNYDER, Joseph N. MOORE, David D. BLACKWELL, Tonya BOYD, Roland N.

HORNE, and Lisa SHEVENELL

Geothermal Fund for Hastening the Development of Indonesia's Geothermal Resources 1440

Anton WAHJOSOEDIBJO and Madjecli HASAN

Grain-scale Failure in Thermal Spallation Drilling

Stuart D. WALSH, llyaLOMOV. Jeffery J. ROBERTS

Hydrothermal Exploration Best Practices and Geothermal Knowledge Exchange on OpenEI

Katherine YOUNG, Timothy REBER, Kermit WITHERBEE

Emerging Technology

Online, Interactive Assessment of Geothermal Energy Potential in the U.S.

ALLISON, M. Lee, RICHARD, Stephen M., CLARK, Ryan C, PATTEN, Kim, LOVE, Diane

S., COLEMAN, Celia, CHEN, Genhan, MATTI, Jordan, DAY, Janel, PAPE, Esty, and

MUSIL, Leah

Towards a Shallow Heat Flow Probe for Mapping Thermal Anomalies

Graeme BEARDSMORE

Integrating Geothermal, Solar, and Wind Energy

E.I. BOGUSLAVSKY, V.V. ELISTRATOV, A.I. MIKHEYEV

Update of a Trial of C02-Based Geothermal at the St.Johns Dome

Alan D. EASTMAN, Mark P. MUIR

Silica Gel Behavior Under Different EGS Chemical and Thermal Conditions: an ExperimentalStudy

Jonathan D. HUNT, Souheil EZZEDINE, William BOURCIER, Sarah ROBERTS, JeffeiyROBERTS

Research on the Use of Silica Extracted from the Hydrothermal Solutions

POTAPOVVadim V, GORBACH Vladimir A., ZUBAHA Svetlana V, SHUNINA Elena V.

Potentials for Cost Reduction for Geothermal Well Construction in View of Various Drilling

Technologies and Automation Opportunities

Erlend RANDEBERG, Eric FORD, GerhardNYGAARD, Magnus ERIKSSON, LeifJarleGRESSGlRD, Kare HANSEN

Assisted Ignition of Hydrothermal Flames in a Pilot Hydrothermal Spallation Drilling Plant

Panagiotis STATHOPOULOS.Tobias ROTHENFLUH, Martin SCHULER, DraganaBRKIC, Philipp RUDOLF VONROHR

Supercritical Water Jets Penetrating Subcritical Water - Application for HydrothermalSpallation Drilling

Martin SCHULER, Tobias ROTHENFLUH, Panagiotis STATHOPOULOS, DraganaBRKIC, Philipp RUDOLF VONROHR

The Use of Geothermal Portable Wellhead Turbine Power Generators to Accelerate

Geothermal Development in Kenya

Joel SUTTER andDominic MUTAI

Use of Downhole Mud-Driven Hammer for Geothermal ApplicationsCatalin TEODOR1U