Geothermal Reservoir and Hydraulics Design

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Disciplines: Reservoir

Course Description

This 1-day course is an introduction to analysis and design of the geothermal reservoir and wellbores. The following topics will be covered:

Analysis of Geothermal Reservoir:

• Introduction of geothermal reservoir
• Conduction and convection in the geothermal reservoir.
• Comparison of fluid-dominated and vapor-dominated systems
• p/z models to estimate steam producing geothermal reservoir size
• Empirical Decline-curves to estimate recoverable energy.
• Compressibility of two-phase water and steam system
• Capillary pressure model of two-phase water and steam system
• Construct a reservoir simulation model.
• Construct the Hydraulic-Fracture model with cohesive elements

Analysis of Geothermal Wells:

• Heat Loss in a wellbore
• Steam flashing in a vertical section
• Effect of impurity in steam flashing
• Flow Patterns in Steam/water flow in vertical section
• Geothermal power generation
• Countercurrent heat exchange in coaxial wells, and applications such as jet-pump
• Propagation of the hydraulic fracture in EGS applications

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Become familiar with fundamentals of steam-water flow in vertical section.
• Carry out well-test methods on geothermal reservoir.
• Learn assumptions made in p/z model.
• Estimate the Geothermal power generation.
• Understand benefits and limitations of Geothermal operation.
• Understand the challenges in the modeling of the AGS and EGS

Learning Level

Intermediate

Course Length

1 Day

Why Attend

The temperature of the earth's inner core is about 6000°C, which is as hot as the surface of the sun. Temperatures in the mantle range from about 200°C at the upper boundary with the earth's crust to approximately 4000°C at the mantle-core boundary. Such high temperature creates a continuous source of energy for electrical energy. Geothermal energy is used in over 20 countries. This course presents the fundamentals of analysis and design of the geothermal projects.

Who Attends

Production engineers, reservoir simulation engineers need to move into geothermal operation. And new and experienced geothermal reservoir engineers. And technology development leaders that are involved in evaluation of geothermal operation.

Special Requirements

• Students must bring their own laptops.
• Participants should have understanding on one-phase flow in the pipe such as its frictional pressure calculation.
• Participants should have basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Participants should have moderate experience or exposure to the topic.

CEUs

0.8 CEUs are awarded for this 1-day course.

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