Vapor, Liquid and Two-Phase Tracers for Geothermal Systems
- Key words
- tracers, reactive tracers, partitioning tracers, reservoir engineering, reservoir boiling
- Conference
- World Geothermal Congress
- Year
- 1995
- Session
- SECTION 7 - Field Management and Monitoring
- Language
- English
- Paper number
- 3-adams
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Abstract
Several new tracers have been developed over the last decade and a half for the purpose of tracking steam, liquid, and two-phase flow derived from injected fluid. In addition to a tracer's traditional role of identifying injection-production flow paths, its specific properties can be used to elucidate and quantify certain reservoir properties and processes. In this paper I review and discuss recent developments in tracer research, which range from new gas tracers to methods for calculating the effective temperature, surface area, or boiling parameters from tracer test data.
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