Current status of the EGS gross schönebeck project: On the way to demonstrate sustainable brine production from deep sediments of the North German Basin

Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council

Volumn 30 I, Issue , 2006, Pages 341-345

  Huenges, Ernst ^a   Saada, Ali ^a   Brandt, Wulf ^a   Moeck, Inga ^a   Holl, Heinz Gerd ^a   Zimmermann, Günter ^a   Blöcher, Guido ^a   Köhler, Silke ^a   Legarth, Björn ^a   Tischner, Torsten ^b  

^a GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam ^*  (Netherlands)

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

Author keywords

Deep sedimentary geothermal reservoir; EGS; Enhanced geothermal systems; Hydraulic stimulation; Proppant gel fracturing; Thermal hydraulic model; Waterfrac technics

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROSITY; SEDIMENTS;

DEEP SEDIMENTARY GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIRS; ENHANCED GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS (EGS); HYDRAULIC STIMULATION; THERMAL HYDRAULIC MODELS; WATERFRAC TREATMENTS;

BRINES;

EID: 34548147233     PISSN: 01935933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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