38th Workshop on Geothermal

Reservoir Engineering 2013

Stanford Geothermal Program Workshop Report SGP-TR-198

Stanford, California, USA11-13 February 2013

Volume 1 of 2

ISBN: 978-1-62748-570-8

Introduction

National Geothermal Data System (NGDS) Geothermal Data Domain: Assessment of

Geothermal Community Data Needs

Arlene ANDERSON, David BLACKWELL, Cathy CHICKERING, Toni BOYD, Roland

HORNE, Matthew MACKENZIE, Joe MOORE, Duane NICKULL, Stephen RICHARD, Lisa

SHEVENELL

NGDS User Centered Design - Meeting the Needs of the Geothermal Community 4Q

HaroldBLACKMAN, Suzanne BOYD, Kim PATTEN, Sam ZHENG

Fueling Innovation and Adoption by Sharing Data on the DOE Geothermal Data RepositoryNode on the National Geothermal Data System

Jon WEERS, Arlene ANDERSON

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Reservoir Engineering

Performance Evaluation of Deepened Wells 420DA and 517DA in the Leyte Geothermal

Production Field, Philippines

Rowena ABAPO, Marie Hazel COLO, Romeo ANDRINO, Edwin ALCOBER

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Estimating Natural-Fracture Permeability From Mud-Loss Data Sf>

SerhatAKIN

Influence of Particle Size on its Transport in Discrete Fractures: Pore-Scale Visualization^

Using Micromodels

MohammedALASKAR, Kewen LI, Roland HORNE

Analysis of Operational Strategies for Utilizing C02 for Geothermal Energy Production 21

Thomas A. BUSCHECK, Mingjie CHEN, Chuanhe LU, Sunwei SUN, YueHAO, Michael A.

CELIA, Thomas R. ELLIOT, Hyungjin CHOI, Jeffrey M. BIELICKI

Uncertainty Quantification of Reactive Transport in Fractured Media S2

Souheil EZZEDINE and Fredrick RYERSON

Measurements of Relative Permeabilities for Water and Steam 24

Maria GUDJONSDOTT1R, Jonas ELIASSON, Halldor PALSSON and Gudrun

SAEVARSDOTT1R

Production Decline Analysis of Dry Steam Wells in Wayang Windu Field 102

Aditya HERNA WAN, Jantiur SITUMORANG

A New Lumped Parameter (Tank) Model for Reservoirs Containing Carbon Dioxide 107

Fatma Bahar HOSGOR, Murat CINAR, Fusun Tut HAKLIDIR, Omer Inane TUREYEN and

Abdurrahman SATMAN

Density Driven (Including Geothermal Effect) Natural Convection of Carbon Dioxide in

Brine Saturated Porous Media in the Context of Geological Sequestration

Akand ISLAM, Muhammad SHARIF, Eric CARLSON

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Cementing of Casing - Temperature Increase at Cement Hydration 130

Izzy KUTASOV, Lev EPPELBAUM

A Novel Analytical Solution for Single Well Thermal Transient Testing in an Idealized Single .

Fracture Geothermal System

Friedrich MAIER, Ibrahim KOCABAS

The Impact of Varying Wellbore Area on Flow Simulation 144

Mark J. MCGUINNESS

A Study on Pressure and Temperature Behaviors of Geothermal Wells in Single-Phase Liquid 1 ,ft

Reservoirs

Yildiray PALABIYIK, Omer Inane TUREYEN, Mustafa ONUR, Melek Deniz

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Kaolinite Mobilisation in Sandstone: Pore Plugging vs. Suspended Particles l&i

Esther ROSENBRAND, Ida LYKKE FABRICIUS, Frans KETS

Local Seismicity in the Exploitation of Los Humeros Geotherraal Field, Mexico 112

Edgar URBAN andJavier LERMO

Characterization of Fractures via Electrical Impedance lHfi

Lawrence VALVERDE, Kewen LI andRoland HORNE

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Field Studies

Analysis of Multiscale Porosity at the Coso Geothermal Field !M

L.M. ANOVITZ, H.-W. WANG, D.R. COLE, J SHEETS, G. ROTHER, D.D. FAULDER, M.

WALTERS

206Updated Conceptual Model and Capacity Estimates for the Greater Olkaria Geothermal

System, KenyaGudni AXELSSON, Andri ARNALDSSON, Sigridur S. GYLFADOTTIR, Saeunn

HALLDORSDOTTIR, Clety K. BORE, Kizito M. OPONDO, Peter OUMA

Advective (Heat Sweep) Geothermal Systems 222

Manfred P HOCHSTEIN, Keyan ZHENG, Suzan PASVANOGLU, Peter VIVIAN-NEAL

Evaluation of Non Productive Time of Geothermal Drilling Operations - Case Study in

Indonesia

Bonar MARBUN, Ramadhana ARISTYA, Riantana HPINEM, Budi S.RAMLI, Karolina

B.GADI

A Five Spot Well Cluster for Hydraulic and Thermal Tomography 219.

Phillip OBERDORFER, EkkehardHOLZBECHER, Rui HU, Thomas PTAK, Martin SAUTER

Prediction of Carbon Behaviors with Emphasis on Clean Development Mechanism: the

Darajat Geothermal Field - Preliminary StudyDewi PERMATASAR1, Arias SUGANDHI, Nenny M. SAPTADJI, NiniekR. HERDIANITA, Ali

ASHAT, Ramos SURYANTA

Analyses and Modelling of Reservoir Pressure Changes to Interpret the Rotokawa^

Geothermal Field Response to Nga Awa Purua Power Station OperationJaime QUINAO, Lutfhie SIRAD-AZWAR, Jonathon CLEARWATER

,Viola HOEPFINGER,

Morgane LE_BRUN, Candice BARDSLEY

The Exploration and Utilization Status of Geothermal Resources and Future Development in^n

Tianjin, Chinaa

SUN Yixuan, RUAN Chuanxia

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Tracers

The Utility of Threshold Reactive Tracers For Characterizing Temperature Distributions in

Geothermal Reservoirs

Morgan AMES, Kewen LI, Roland HORNE

Investigating Well Connectivity Using Ionic Tracers 214

Matthew W. BECKER, Krystle REMMEN, Paul W. REIMUS, Georgios P. TSOFLIAS

Thermal Stability and Chemistry of Fluorescent Nanocrystals for use as a Novel Geothermal^

Tracer

EricBRAUSER, Peter ROSE, Michael BARTL

Laboratory Experiments to Characterize Cation-Exchanging Tracer Behavior at Newberry og„

Crater, OR

Cynthia DEAN, Paul REIMUS, Kevin LEECASTER, Dennis NEWELL, Peter ROSE, and

Susan PETTY

Single-Well Tracer Push-Pull Test Sensitivity to Fracture Aperture and Spacing 295.

Julia GHERGUT, Horst BEHRENS, Shyamal KARMAKAR, Martin SAUTER

Tracer-Based Prediction of Thermal Reservoir Lifetime: Scope, Limitations, and What

Reactive Tracers Can Tell

Julia GHERGUT, Horst BEHRENS, Tobias LICHA, Martin SAUTER

309

CCS Site Characterization by Single-Well and Inter-Well Tracer Tests 216

Julia GHERGUT, Horst BEHRENS, Jac BENSABAT, Auli NIEMI, Tobias LICHA, Thomas

PTAK, Martin SAUTER

Can Peclet Numbers Depend on Tracer Species? Going Beyond SW Test Insensitivity to^

Advection or Equilibrium-ExchangeJulia GHERGUT, Horst BEHRENS, Martin SAUTER, Tobias LICHA, Martin NOTTEBOHM

Controlled Column Experiments to Determine the Theory and Sensitivity of thermo-sensitive

Tracers

Friedrich MAIER, Adriatik OLLONI, Tobias LICHA

Development of Fractional Derivative-Based Mass and Heat Transport Model 242

Anna SUZUKI, RolandN HORNE, Hiroshi MAKITA, Yuichi NIIBORI, Sergei A. FOMIN,

Vladimir A. CHUGUNOV, Toshiyuki HASHIDA

Tracer Test in Hot Spring Fluid Layer at Minami-Izu Geothermal Field, Shizuoka, Japan 242

Norio YANAGISAWA, Kazuo MATSUYAMA, Yasuto TAKEDA, Kazuo TOMITA, Kasumi

YASUKAWA, Keiichi SAKAGUCHI

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Modeling

Relative Importance of Processes Leading to Stress Changes in The Geysers Geothermal Area 354

Johannes B. ALTMANN, Oliver HEIDBACH, Roland GRITTO

Numerical Back-Analysis of Geothermal Laboratory Tests with Forced Groundwater flow 365

Ulvi ARSLAN, Heiko HUBER

Influence of Convection on Production from Borehole Heat Exchangers 370

Carina BRINGEDAL, Inga BERRE, Jan NORDBOTTEN

Modelling of Modes of Heat Supply from Hybrid Fuel-Geothermal Station 378

Volodymyr BUGAI, Andriy REDKO

Development of a Reservoir Stimulation Model at Pilgrim Hot Springs, Alaska using -„9

TOUGH2^

Arvind CHITTAMBAKKAM, Ronald DAANEN, Anupma PRAKASH, Christian

HASELWIMMER, Markus MAGER, Gwen HOLDMANN

Dynamic Model of Discrete Fracture Opening under Fluid Injection 395

George DANKO and Davood BAHRAMI

Reservoir Modeling of Geothermal Energy Production from Stratigraphic Reservoirs in the

Great Basin

MilindDEO, Richard ROEHNER, Rick ALUS, Joseph MOORE

405

Numerical Modeling and Performance Prediction of Balcova Geothermal Field, Turkey 412

Goker ERTUNC, Mahmut PARLAKTUNA

Connectivity Index and Connectivity Field towards Fluid Flow in Fracture-based Geothermal

Reservoirs

Younes FADAKAR ALGHALANDIS, Chaoshui XU, Peter A. DOWD

Numerical Modeling of the Mita Geothermal Field, Cerro Blanco, Guatemala 428

Brendan Michael FEATHER andRamonchito Cedric M. MALATE

The Wellbore Simulator FloWell 422

Halldora GUDMUNDSDOTTIR, Magnus Thor JONSSON, Halldor PALSSON

A Coupled Wellbore-Reservoir Simulator Utilizing Measured Wellhead Conditions 446

Halldora GUDMUNDSDOTTIR, Magnus Thor JONSSON, Halldor PALSSON

FISHA - Forward Induced Seismic Hazard Assessment, Application to Synthetic SeismicityCatalog Generated by Hydraulic Stimulation Modeling

AmirHossein HAKIMHASHEMI, Jeoung Seok YOON, Oliver HEIDBACH, Arno ZANG,

Gottfried GRUNTHAL

Application of a Dual-Continuum Model for Simulation of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in

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Fractured Geothermal Reservoirs

Yue HAO, Pengcheng FU, and Charles R. CARRIGAN

Simulated Evolution of Fractures and Fracture Networks Subject to Thermal Cooling andFluid Pressure Changes: A Coupled Network Flow and Discrete Element Model

Hai HUANG, Mitchell PLUMMER, Robert PODGORNEY

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Collapse Analysis of the Casing in a High Temperature Geothermal Well 421

Gunnar Skulason KALDAL, Magnus Thor JONSSON, Halldor PALSSON, Sigrun N.

KARLSDOTTIR

Modeling of the Enthalpy, Pressure, Chloride and C02 Transient Change During 1983-20064„-,

Exploitation/Exploitation of the Mutnovsky Geothermal Field (Kamchatka, Russia)

Alexey KIRYUKHIN, Olga MIROSHNIK

Preliminary Analytical Solutions of the Geomechanical and Thermal Stresses on Fracture

Walls.^

Randy KOONJCOON, Indra HARAKSINGH

Fracture Connectivity of Fractal Fracture Networks Estimated using Electrical Resistivity 503

Lilja MAGNUSDOTTIR, RolandHORNE

Stochastic Joint Inversion of a Geothermal Prospect 510

R. MELLORS, A. RAMIREZ, A. TOMPSON, M. CHEN, X. YANG, K. DYER, J. WAGONER,W. FOXALL, and W. TRAINOR-GUITTON

5183-D Geomechanical Modeling of the Stress Field in North German Basin: Case StudyGeneSys-Borehole GT1 in Hannover Grofi-Buchholz

Ernesto MENESES RIOSECO, Jorn LOHKEN, Rudiger SCHELLSCHMIDT, Torsten

TISCHNER

A Coupled FEM Model for Numerical Simulation of Rechargeable Shallow Geothermal BHE

Systems

Phillip OBERDORFER, Rui HU, EkkehardHOLZBECHER, Martin SAUTER

Controlling Complex Geothermal Simulations using PyTOUGH 5_3_2

John OWVSULLIVAN, DavidDEMPSEY, Adrian CROUCHER, Angus YEH, Mike

OWVSULLIVAN

Hydrogeological, Hydrogeochemical and Isotope Geochemical Modeling of the Thermal

Waters of the Menderes Massif, Western Anatolia, Turkey

Nevzat OZGUR

Numerical Evaluation of Energy Extraction, C02-Rock Interactions, and Carbon

Sequestration in Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) with Supercritical C02 as Working 5J>f>

Fluid

Feng PAN, Brian J.O.L. MCPHERSON, Peter C. LICHTNER, John P. KAZUBA, Caroline

LO RE, SatishKARRA, Chuan LU, Tianfu XU

Applied Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Coupled Modeling of Geothermal Prospection in the

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Northern Upper Rhine Graben

Wolfram RUHAAK & Ingo SASS

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Multiscale Simulation of Flow and Heat Transport in Fractured Geothermal Reservoirs:

Inexact Solvers and Improved Transport Upscaling

Tor Harold SANDVE, Inga BERRE, EirikKEILEGA VLEN, Jan Martin NORDBOTTEN

Modeling Reservoir Stimulation Induced by Wellbore Fluid Injection 584

Eyal SHALEV, Vladimir LYAKHOVSKY

Phenomenological Study of Temperature Gradient Anomalies in the Buntsandstein

Formation, Above the Soultz Geothermal Reservoir, Using Tough2 Simulations

Deborah SIFFERT, HAFFENSebastien, GARCIA MichelH, GERAUD Yves

Evaluating the Role of the Rhyolite Ridge Fault System in the Desert Peak Geothermal Field, „

jwith Robust Sensitivity Testing through Boundary Element Modeling and Likelihood Analysis

Michael SWYER and Nicholas C. DAVATZES

A Numerical Analysis on Flow in Hydrothermal Systems 617

Larus THORVALDSSON, HalldorPALSSON

A New Double Porosity Fractal Model for Well Test Analysis with Transient InterporosityTransference for Petroleum and Geothermal Systems

Alex R. VALDES-PEREZ, Hector PULIDO, Heber CINCO-LEY, LeifLARSEN

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Parametric Study with GEOFRAC: a Three-Dimensional Stochastic Fracture Flow Model 637

Alessandra VECCH1ARELU, Rita SOUSA, Herbert H. EINSTEIN

Assessing Thermo-Hydrodynamic-Chemical Processes at the Dixie Valley Geothermal Area:

A Reactive Rransport Modeling Approach

Christoph WANNER, Loic PEIFFER, Nicolas SPYCHER, Eric SONNENTHAL, Jon

SAINSBURY, Joe IOVENITTI, Burton Mack KENNEDY

Coupled Geomechanical and Reactive Geochemical Simulations for Fluid and Heat Flow in

Enhanced Geothermal Reservoirs

YiXIONG, LitangHU, Yu-Shu WU

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Multi-Fracturing in Geothermal Reservoir and Induced Seismicity using Particle based,(

Discrete Element-Fracture Network Model

Jeoung Seok YOON, Giinter ZIMMERMANN, Arno ZANG

Simulation of Hydraulic Stimulation of Fractured Reservoir and Induced Seismicity using ,

7.Discrete Element Fracture Network Model

Jeoung Seok YOON Arno ZANG, Ove STEPHANSSON

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Injection

Thermal Stimulation of Geothermal Wells: A Review of Field Data 678

Malcolm A GRANT, Jonathon CLEARWATER, Jaime QUINAO, Paul F BLXLEYand

Morgane LEJ5RUN

Well Permeability Enhancement through Hydraulic Stimulation Conducted in the Mt. ApoGeothermal Project, Philippines

MarkAngelo O. MALIBIRAN, Jerry L. LEYR1TA, Benson Ma G. SAMBRANO, James B.

NOGARA

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Enhanced Geothermal Systems

Geomechanically Coupled Simulation of Flow in Fractured Reservoirs MS

C. A. BARTON, D. MOOS, L. HARTLEY, S. BAXTER, L. FOULQUIER, H HOLL, R.

HOGARTH

Introducing GEOPHIRES vl.O: Software Package for Estimating Levelized Cost of

Electricity and/or Heat from Enhanced Geothermal Systems

KoenraadF. BECKERS, Maciej Z. LUKAWSKI, Timothy J. REBER, Brian J. ANDERSON,

Michal C. MOORE and Jefferson W. TESTER

Computational Investigation of Hydro-Mechanical Effects on Transmissivity Evolution

During the Initial Injection Phase at the Desert Peak EGS Project, NV

Stefano BENATO, Donald M. REEVES, Rishi PARASHAR, Nicholas DAVATZES, Steve

HICKMAN, Derek ELSWORTH, Paul SPIELMAN, Joshua TARON

Maximazing Heat Extraction and Minimazing Water Losses in Hydrothermal Systems: A^

Numerical Investigation

William BOURCIER, Souheil EZZEDINE, Jonathan HUNT, Sarah ROBERTS& JefferyROBERTS

Recent Developments at the Raft River Geothermal Field 733

Jacob BRADFORD, John MCLENNAN, Joseph MOORE, Douglas GLASBY, Douglas

WATERS, RichardKRUWELL, Alan BAILEY, William RICKARDS, Kevin BLOOMFIELD,

and Dennis KING

Multiple-Well Multiple-Reservoir long term Thermal Modelling at Soultz sous Forets EGS

Site^

Dominique BRUEL, Jacques DENTZER

Analyzing Heat Extraction and Sustainability of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) with a^

Novel Single-Porosity Model

Jiliang CHEN, Liang LUO, Fangming JIANG

Fracture Propagation under Poro-thermally Induced Stress using the Displacement _ „

Discontinuity method

Kwanghee CHUN

Creating Enhanced Geothermal Systems in Depleted Oil Reservoirs via In situ Combustion 768

Murat CINAR

Microseismic Monitoring of Newberry Volcano EGS Demonstration 778

Trenton T. CLADOUHOS, Susan PETTY, Yini NORDIN, Michael MOORE, Kyla GRASSO,Matt UDDENBERG, Mike SWYER, Bruce JULIAN, and Gillian FOULGER

C02-EGS and the Utilization of Highly Pressurized C02 for Purposes Other than Power„

Generation

Alan EASTMAN and Mark P. MUIR

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A Laboratory Investigation of Reversible Permeability Decline Effects during Flow throughStimulated Fracture Networks: Implications for Improved EGS Reservoir Operation 793

Methodologies

Luke FRASH, Marte GUTIERREZ, Jesse HAMPTON

Thermal Fracturing of Geothermal Wells and Effects of Borehole Orientation 805

KjetilHALS, Inga BERRE

Integrated Reservoir Modeling for Enhanced Geothermal Energy Systems in Central Alberta, „. _

Canada

Hannes HOFMANN, Simon WEIDES, Tayfun BABADAGLI, Gunther ZIMMERMANN, IngaMOECK, Jacek MAJOROWICZ andMartyn UNSWORTH

Developing a Calibrated EGS Exploration Metodlogy using the Dixie Valley Geothermal,

System, A Progress Report

Joe IOVENITTI, Robert KARLIN, Mahesh THAKUR, David BLACKWELL, Ilieana

TIBULEAC, Philip WANNAMAKER, Fletcher IBSER, Jon SAINSBURY

Experiment-Based Modeling of Geochemical Interactions in C02-based Geothermal Systems 836

YoojinJUNG, TianfuXU, Patrick F. DOBSON, Norine CHANG, and Miroslav PETRO

Applications of the Fractured Continuum Model (FCM) to EGS Heat Extraction Problems Ml

Elena KALININA, Sean McKENNA, Katherine KLISE, Teklu HADGU, Thomas LOWRY

Three-Dimensional Heat Flow Model for Enhanced Geothermal Systems using BoundaryElement Method

Dharmendra KUMAR, Marte GUTIERREZ

Probabilistic Assessment of the Deep Sedimentary Geothermal System with C02 Injection at,

Reservoir Depth1

Si-YongLEE, Feng PAN, Brian MCPHERSON, Joseph MOORE, and Rick ALUS

EGS Rock Reactions with SCC02 Saturated with Water and Water Saturated with SCC02 £7_L

EarlD. MATTSON, Travis L. MCLING, and William SMITH

Is Pure Shear Stimulation Always the Mechanism of Stimulation in EGS? &2£

MarkMCCLURE, RolandHORNE

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