The More-Than-cloud and Successor Projects: International Joint Research on New Mapping and HDR/HWR Reservoir Development Technologies
- Key words
- fracture mapping
- Conference
- World Geothermal Congress
- Year
- 2000
- Session
- Advanced Technologies (HDR, Magma, Geopressure)
- Language
- English
- Paper number
- R0192
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Abstract
Understanding of the geothermal reservoir, especially characterization of the cracks that form a subsurface fracture network, is essential for design, creation and control of engineered Hot Dry Rock/Hot Wet Rock (HDR/HWR) systems. Prediction of the energy production and lifetime remains a fundamental unsolved problem. Two projects are now aimed at solving these problems. While funded by Japan's NEDO, they bring together researchers from France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the U.S. They are focusing upon interdisciplinary work between seismology, reservoir engineering and rock mechanics to develop the required new methods.
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