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Interpretation of pre- and post-fracturing well tests in a geothermal reservoir

Description: Pre- and post-fracturing well tests in TG-2 well drilled next to the Matsukawa field are interpreted for evaluating effects of a massive hydraulic fracturing treatment. The interpreted data include multiple-step rate tests, a two-step rate test, and falloff tests. Pressure behaviors of massive hydraulic fracturing are matched by a simulator of dynamic fracture option. Fracture parting pressures can be evaluated from the multiple-step rate test data. The multiple-step rates during the massive hy… more
Date: January 26, 1995
Creator: Arihara, Norio; Fukagawa, Hiroshi; Hyodo, Masami & Abbaszadeh, Maghsood
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Locating an Active Fault Zone in Coso Geothermal Field by Analyzing Seismic Guided Waves From Microearthquake Data

Description: Active fault systems usually provide high-permeability channels for hydrothermal outflow in geothermal fields. Locating such fault systems is of a vital importance to plan geothermal production and injection drilling, since an active fault zone often acts as a fracture-extensive low-velocity wave guide to seismic waves. We have located an active fault zone in the Coso geothermal field, California, by identifying and analyzing a fault-zone trapped Rayleigh-type guided wave from microearthquake d… more
Date: January 26, 1995
Creator: Lou, M.; Malin, P. E. & Rial, J. A.
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Study of desorption in a vapor dominated reservoir with fractal geometry

Description: This paper is an attempt to model well decline in a vapor dominated reservoir with fractal geometry. The fractal network of fractures is treated as a continuum with characteristic anomalous diffusion of pressure. A numerical solver is used to obtain the solution of the partial differential equation including adsorption in the fractal storage space. The decline of the reservoir is found to obey the empirical hyperbolic type relation when adsorption is not present. Desorption does not change the … more
Date: January 26, 1995
Creator: Tudor, Monica; Horne, Roland N. & Hewett, Thomas A.
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Laboratory measurements on reservoir rocks from The Geysers geothermal field

Description: A suite of laboratory measurements have been conducted on Geysers metagraywacke and metashale recovered from a drilled depth of 2599 to 2602 meters in NEGU-17. The tests have been designed to constrain the mechanical and water-storage properties of the matrix material. Various measurements have been made at a variety of pressures and at varying degrees of saturation. Both compressional and shear velocities exhibit relatively little change with effective confining pressure. In all of the samples… more
Date: January 26, 1995
Creator: Boitnott, G.N.
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