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Thermal Hydrological Mechanical Modelling of Anticipated Stimulation in Utah

Torquil SMITH, Eric SONNENTHAL, Nori NAKATA

Key words
enhanced geothermal, stimulation, THM modelling, Utah,
Conference
Stanford Geothermal Workshop
Year
2024
Session
Enhanced Geothermal Systems
Language
English
Paper number
Smith2

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Abstract

Additional horizontal wells have been drilled at depth near Milford, Utah. We assume a stimulation plan similar to that used at Blue Mountain, Nevada (Norbeck, Latimer, 2023). We model the stimulation using averaged parameter values from cores from the Utah FORGE site (Ghassemi, Zhou, 2023, McLennan, 2018a). Initial results show extensive fracturing consistent with stimulation results at the nearby Utah FORGE site.

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