Annual Stanford Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering


Preliminary Program (33): Last Update Wed 2/11/2009
*Denotes Papers Received. (57 papers received out of 63).

MONDAY FEBRUARY 9, 2009

7:30 am REGISTRATION/ CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST


8:30 am SESSION 1: INTRODUCTION/OPENING
Chair: Kewen Li

(1) "The Geothermal Technologies Program: A Renaissance," Ed Wall + [Abstract]

(2) * # "Oregon Institute of Technology Geothermal Uses and Projects - Past, Present and Future," John W. Lund and Tonya "Toni" Boyd [Paper]

(3) * "Optimisation of the Economics of Electric Power from Enhanced Geothermal Systems," Subir K. Sanyal + [Paper]


10:15 am COFFEE BREAK


10:45 am SESSION 2: ENHANCED GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS I
Chair: Barry Goldstein

(4) * # "Hot Rock Geothermal Energy Plays in Australia," Goldstein, B.A., Hill, A.J., Long, A., Budd, A.R., Holgate, F., and Malavazos, M. + [Paper]

(5) * # "Overview of the Current Activities of the European EGS Soultz Project: from Exploration to Electricity Production," Albert Genter, Daniel Fritsch, Nicolas Cuenot, Jörg Baumgärtner, Jean-Jacques Graff + [Paper]

(6) * # "Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) Well Construction Technology Evaluation Synopsis," Yarom Polsky, A.J. (Chip) Mansure, Douglas Blankenship, Robert J. Swanson and Louis E. Capuano, Jr. [Paper]

(7) * # "HDR Geothermal Energy: Important Lessons From Fenton Hill," Donald W. Brown + [Paper]


12:30 pm LUNCH


1:30 pm SESSION 3: ENHANCED GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS II
Chair: Susan Petty

(8) * "A Single-Well EGS Configuration Using a Thermosiphon," Zhe Wang, Mark W. McClure and Roland N. Horne + [Paper]

(9) * # "Exergy Analysis of a CO2 Thermosiphon," Aleks D. Atrens, Hal Gurgenci, Victor Rudolph + [Paper]

(10) * "Electricity Generation using a Supercritical CO2 Geothermal Siphon," Hal Gurgenci + [Paper]

(11) * # "Geothermal Systems Assessment - Identification and Mitigation of EGS Exploration Risk," Graeme R Beardsmore and Gareth T Cooper + [Paper]


3:15 pm COFFEE BREAK


3:45 pm SESSION 4: FIELD STUDIES
Chair: Abdurrahman Satman

(12) * # "Electrical Power from an Oil Production Waste Stream," Lyle A. Johnson and Dan Lee Simon + [Paper]

(13) * # "Assessment of Turkey Geothermal Resources," E. Didem Korkmaz Basel, Umran Serpen, Abdurrahman Satman [Paper]

(14) * # "Direct Heat Geothermal Applications in the Perth Basin of Western Australia," Klaus Regenauer-Lieb, Hui Tong Chua, Xiaolin Wang , Franklin G. Horowitz, J. Florian Wellmann [Paper]

(15) * # "Hydrocarbon Well Testing as Part of Geothermal Exploration in Hungary," Attila Kujbus + [Paper]


5:30 pm WINE AND CHEESE


TUESDAY FEBRUARY 10, 2009

7:30 am REGISTRATION/ CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST


8:30 am SESSION 5(A): RESERVOIR ENGINEERING I
Chair: Sabodh Garg

(16) * # "A Generalized Nonisothermal Lumped-Parameter Model for Liquid-Dominated Geothermal Reservoirs," Omer Inanc Tureyen and Mustafa Onur + [Paper]

(17) * # "Assessment of Uncertainty in Estimation of Stored and Recoverable Thermal Energy in Low-Temperature Geothermal Reservoirs by Volumetric Methods," Hulya Sarak, O. Inanc Tureyen, Mustafa Onur [Paper]

(18) * # "Real-Time Acid Treatment Performance Analysis of Geothermal Wells," Frederick Libert, Peter, Riza Pasikki, Mark Looney, and Keita Yoshioka + [Paper]

(19) * "Modeling and Numerical Analysis of the Two-phase Geothermal Reservoir at Ogiri, Kyushu, Japan," Y. Kumamoto, R. Itoi, T. Tanaka and Y. Hazama [Paper]


8:30 am SESSION 5(B): GEOCHEMISTRY
Chair: TBD

(20) * # "An Artificial Neural Network Model for Na/K Geothermometer," Genco Serpen, Yıldıray Palabıyık and Umran Serpen [Paper]

(21) * # "Field Experiments for Studying on CO2 Sequestration in Solid Minerals at the Ogachi HDR Geothermal Site, Japan," H.Kaieda, A. Ueda, H. Wakahama, S. Mito, K. Sugiyama, A. Ozawa, Y. Kuroda, H. Sato, T. Yajima, K. Kato, K. Kubota and Y. Kaji + [Paper]

(22) * # "Thermal Springs Hydrogeochemistry and Structure at North-Mutnovskoe Fumarole Field (South Kamchatka, Russia)," Bortnikova S.B., Kiryuhin A.V., Manstein Yu.A., Bortnikova S.P., Vernikovskaya I.V. [Paper]


10:15 am COFFEE BREAK


10:45 am SESSION 6(A): RESERVOIR ENGINEERING II
Chair: Egill Juiliusson

(23) * "Application of a Transient Wellbore Simulator to Wells HE-06 and HE-20 in the Hellisheidi Geothermal System, SW-Iceland," Daher Elmi, Gudni Axelsson [Paper]

(24) * "Analysis of Neutralization Reaction in a Geothermal Well," Naoyuki Akazawa and Ryuichi Itoi + [Paper]

(25) * # "Cold Front Propagation in a Fractured Geothermal Reservoir," Aniko Toth and Elemer Bobok + [Paper]

(26) * # "Differences in Estimating Reserves Between Geothermal and Petroleum Reservoirs," Lingyu Zhang, Kewen Li + [Paper]


10:45 am SESSION 6(B): GEOSCIENCES I
Chair: Pete Rose

(27) * # "Detailed Image of Fractures Activated by a Fluid Injection in a Producing Indonesian Geothermal Field," Foulger, G.R. and De Luca, L. + [Paper]

(28) * # "CO2 Driven Hydrothermal Eruptions in Geothermal Systems of Turkey," I. Tonguç Uysal, Jian-xin Zhao, Yue-xing Feng, Suzanne D. Golding + [Paper]

(29) * "Gedongsongo Manifestation Overview Over Ungaran Geothermal Prospect, Indonesia," Mochamad Nukman [Paper]

(30) * # "Environmental Impact Assessment of Sabalan Geothermal Power Plant NW Iran," Hossein Yousefi, Sachio Ehara, Amin Yousefi, Fariba Seiedi + [Paper]


12:30 pm LUNCH


1:30 pm SESSION 7(A): MODELING
Chair: John W. Pritchett

(31) * # "Design of a Convection Cell for a Downhole Heat Exchanger System in Klamath Falls, Oregon," Tonya Boyd + [Paper]

(32) * # "An Experimental Simulation on Heat Transfer Characteristics of a Downhole Heat Exchanger," C.S. Dai, Y. Chen, J. Zhao + [Paper]

(33) * # "Comparison of an Analytic and a Numerical Approach for Tracer Transport in a Fractured Geothermal Reservoir," Aniko Toth, Elemer Bobok and Peter Szucs [Paper]

(34) * # "Assessment of Geothermal Potential at Ungaran Volcano, Indonesia Deduced from Numerical Analysis," Agus Setyawan, Sachio Ehara, Yasuhiro Fujimitsu, Hakim Saibi + [Paper]


1:30 pm SESSION 7(B): GEOPHYSICS I
Chair: Ken Williamson

(35) * "Geothermal Resource Conceptual Models Using Surface Exploration Data," William Cumming + [Paper]

(36) * "Time-Dependent Seismic Tomography of Geothermal Systems," Julian, B.R.; Foulger, G.R. [Paper]

(37) * "Monitoring Geothermal Processes with Microearthquake Mechanisms," Julian, B.R.; Foulger, G.R. [Paper]

(38) * # "Electrical Resistivity Image of the Kızıldere Geothermal Field Inferred from Magnetotelluric Data, Western Turkey," Murat Bayrak, Umran Serpen and O. Metin İlkışık + [Paper]


3:45 pm SESSION 8(B): GEOPHYSICS II
Chair: Bill Cumming

(39) * # "Wavelet Analysis of the Potential Fields of Elasticity: a Remote Sensing Tool to Monitor Steam Cap Migrations?," Franklin G. Horowitz, Peter Hornby, Eric Fielding, Klaus Regenauer-Lieb + [Paper]

(40) * # "Seismic Monitoring of EGS Stimulation Tests at the Coso Geothermal Field, California, Using Microearthquake Locations and Moment Tensors ," Julian, B.R.; Foulger, G.R.; Monastero, F.C. [Paper]

(41) * "Borehole Image Analysis and Geological Interpretation of Selected Features in Well DP 27-15 at Desert Peak, Nevada: Pre-Stimulation Evaluation of an Enhanced Geothermal System ," Katherine M. Kovac, Susan Juch Lutz, Peter S. Drakos, and Ann Robertson-Tait + [Paper]

(42) * "Stratigraphic and Structural Relationships in the Desert Peak Geothermal Reservoir, Nevada: Pre-Stimulation Characterization of EGS Reservoir Rocks," Susan Juch Lutz, Joseph N. Moore, Peter Drakos, and Ann Robertson-Tait + [Paper]


5:30 pm INFORMAL LAB TOUR


6:30 pm RECEPTION AND BANQUET


8:00 pm ENTERTAINMENT


WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 11, 2009

7:30 am REGISTRATION/ CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST


8:30 am SESSION 9(A): ENHANCED GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS III
Chair: Jeff Tester

(43) * # "Sensitivity Analysis of Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical (THM) Coupled Processes in a Hot-Dry-Rock Reservoir," Norihiro Watanabe, Wenqing Wang, Christopher I. McDermott, Takeo Taniguchi and Olaf Kolditz + [Paper]

(44) * # "Numerical Simulation to Study Silica and Calcite Dissolution Around a Geothermal Well by Injecting High pH Chelating Agents," Tianfu Xu, Peter Rose, Scott Fayer, and Karsten Pruess + [Paper]

(45) * "Fractures, Stress and Fluid Flow Prior to Stimulation of Well 27-15, Desert Peak, Nevada, EGS Project," Nicholas C. Davatzes, Stephen Hickman [Paper]

(46) # "Investigating Coupled Thermal-Hydrological-Mechanical Processes in Geothermal Reservoirs," Sharad Kelkar, George Zyvoloski, Rajesh Pawar, Carl W. Gable, Bruce A. Robinson, Zora Dash + [Abstract]


10:15 am COFFEE BREAK


10:45 am SESSION 10(A): ENHANCED GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS IV
Chair: Graeme Beardsmore

(47) * # "Pre-Production Activity Impacts of EGS ," Corrie Clark + [Paper]

(48) * "Three-Dimensional Poroelastic Simulation of Hydraulic and Natural Fractures Using the Displacement Discontinuity Method," X. Zhou, and A. Ghassemi [Paper]

(49) * "Numerical Simulation of Exploitation of Supercritical Enhanced Geothermal System," R.I. Pashkevich, V.V. Taskin [Paper]


12:30 pm LUNCH


1:30 pm SESSION 11: EMERGING TECHNOLOGY
Chair: Roland Horne

(50) * "Study of Sorption Extraction of Boron from the Geothermal Heat Carriers," T.P. Belova, B.E Parshin, A.S.Latkin, O.A. Yakovishina, T.I. Kornilova, L.D. Zernova, T.I Ratchina, [Paper]

(51) * "Heat Transfer in Geothermal System of Mutnovsky Volcano: the Influence of the Form, Discharge of Magma Chamber Degassing and Rocks Permeability," R.I. Pashkevich, V.V. Taskin [Paper]

(52) * "Numerical Modeling of Orthosilicic Acid Nucleation in a Hydrothermal Solutions," Kashutina I.A., Potapov V.V., Min G.M., Sadovnikova A. O., Shunina E.N., Zubaha S.V. [Paper]


SESSION 13: Publication Only
Chair: -

(53) * "Electromagnetic Temperature Extrapolation in Depth in the Hengill Geothermal Area, Iceland," V.V.Spichak, O.K.Zakharova [Paper]

(54) * "Experiments on Silica Concentration in Hydrothermal Solutions by Ultrafiltration," Potapov V.V., Gorbach V.A., Ermachihin A.A., Sadovnikova A. O., Min G.M. [Paper]

(55) * "iTOUGH2 Analysis of the Well Level Response to the Barometric Pressure Change (Well YZ-5, Kamchatka)," A.V. Kiryukhin, G.N. Kopylova [Paper]

(56) * "District Heating Modelling and Simulation," Lei Haiyan and Pall Valdimarsson + [Paper]

(57) * "Hydrothermal Explosion Due to Seal Effect in El Humazo Geothermal Manifestation, Domuyo Vn., Neuquén, Argentina," G. Mas, L. Bengochea, L. C. Mas & N. López [Paper]

(58) * # "Single-Well Dual-Tracer Spikings During EGS Creation in Northern-German Sedimentary Layers," I. Ghergut, M. Sauter, H. Behrens, T. Licha, T. Tischner, R. Jung [Paper]

(59) * # "Tracer Properties, and Spiking Results (from Geothermal Reservoirs)," H. Behrens, I. Ghergut, T. Licha, M. Sauter [Paper]