Investigation of a new HDR system with horizontal wells and multiple fractures using the coupled wellbore–reservoir simulator TOUGH2MP-WELL/EOS3

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 6047-6058

  Li, Mengting ^a,b   Gou, Yang ^a,b   Hou, Zhengmeng ^a,b   Were, Patrick ^b  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coupled wellbore reservoir simulation; Horizontal well; Hot dry rock; Multiple fractures; Thermal hydraulic modeling

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXTRACTION; FRACTURE; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; GEOTHERMAL WELLS; HORIZONTAL DRILLING; HOT DRY ROCK SYSTEMS; INVESTMENTS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OIL FIELD EQUIPMENT; WATER INJECTION;

ENHANCED GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS; FRACTURE PERMEABILITY; GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIR; HOT DRY ROCK; LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY; MULTIPLE FRACTURE; RESERVOIR SIMULATION; THERMAL HYDRAULIC MODELING;

HORIZONTAL WELLS;

EID: 84939942636     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4242-9     Document Type: Article

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