The status of the hot dry rock scientific power plant at Soultz-sous-Forêts

Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Geologie

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 12-16

  Baumgärtner, Jörg ^a,b   Jung, Reinhard ^c   Hettkamp, Thomas ^b   Teza, Dimitra ^c  

^a GEIE Exploitation Minière de la Chaleur ^*  (France)

^b BESTEC GmbH   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bas Rhin; Deep drilling; Fluid injection; Geothermal energy; Granites; Hot dry rocks; Hydraulic fracturing; Microseismic Upper Rhine Graben; Pilot plants; Self propping; Soultz sous For ts; Stress fields

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE; DEEP DRILLING; FLUID INJECTION; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; GRANITE; HOT DRY ROCK; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; OIL WELL; POWER PLANT; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; STRESS FIELD;

ALSACE; BAS-RHIN; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; RHINE GRABEN; SOULTZ-SOUS-FORETS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33750603403     PISSN: 00442259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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