Long-term petrophysical investigations on geothermal reservoir rocks at simulated In situ conditions

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-78

  Milsch, H ^a   Seibt, A ^b   Spangenberg, E ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b Boden Wasser Gesundheit GbR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geothermal reservoirs; Hydrothermal fluid rock interactions; Long term petrophysical experiments; Permeability; Rock transport properties

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CAPILLARITY; DISSOLUTION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTS; FLUIDS; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; LIQUIDS; OXYGEN; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; RESERVOIRS (WATER); ROCKS; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOLIDS; SULFATE MINERALS; WATER WELLS; WELL STIMULATION;

GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIRS; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID-ROCK INTERACTIONS; LONG-TERM PETROPHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; PERMEABILITY; ROCK TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

DISSOLUTION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; PERMEABILITY; PERMIAN; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RESERVOIR ROCK; TEMPERATURE; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

BERLIN; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; NORTH GERMAN BASIN; NORTHEAST GERMAN BASIN;

EID: 60349113484     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-008-9261-5     Document Type: Article

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