An innovative reservoir simulator can help evaluate hot water production for economic development of Australian geothermal reservoirs

Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council

Volumn 32, Issue , 2008, Pages 83-88

  Ravoof, Shaik A ^a   Aghighi, Mohammad A ^a   Tran, Nam H ^a   Rahman, Sheik S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS; EFFECTIVE PERMEABILITY TENSOR; ENHANCED GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS; FRACTURE DENSITY; FRACTURED SYSTEMS; GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIR; HOT-WATER PRODUCTION; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE STIMULATION; INTEGRATED MODELS; MATRIX PERMEABILITY; PRODUCTION MODELS; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; RESERVOIR SIMULATOR; THREE MODELS; WATER INJECTION RATE;

CAPILLARITY; ECONOMICS; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; GEOTHERMAL PROSPECTING; GEOTHERMAL WELLS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; WATER; WATER INJECTION; WATER RESOURCES; WELL SPACING;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

EID: 70249108851     PISSN: 01935933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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