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Thermoelastic fracturing and buoyancy-driven convection: Surprising sources of longevity for EGS circulation
Mark McClure
To maximize value from an EGS system, engineers need to optimize flow rate, well spacing, and well configuration. Numerical simulations yield interesting and surprising results reg…
Technical barriers for deep closed-loop geothermal
Mark McClure
This is the most exciting time in my lifetime for geothermal. There are many, many innovative things happening. To name a few, promising new approaches to Enhanced Geothermal Syste…
A new method for interpreting well-to-well interference tests and quantifying the magnitude of production impact: Theory and applications in a multi-basin case study
Mouin Almasoodi, Thad Andrews, Curtis Johnston +2
Interference tests are used in shale reservoirs to evaluate the strength of connectivity between wells. The results inform engineering decisions about well spacing. In this paper,…
Commentary on Four New DFIT Papers: (a) In-Situ Measurements from EGS Collab; (b) Comparison of Techniques at the Bedretto Project; (c) Statistical Review of 62 DFITs; and (d) An Article Advocating the Tangent Method
Mark W. McClure
This post provides commentary on recent four papers on diagnostic fracture injection testing (DFIT). The first paper uses in-situ deformation measurements to directly observe fract…
Description of ResFrac automated history matching and optimization workflow
Charles A. Kang, Mark W. McClure, Somasekhar Reddy
This document describes the functioning of the automated history matching and optimization workflow implemented with the ResFrac hydraulic fracturing and reservoir simulator. The p…
Transverse Hydraulic Fracture Initiation: Insights from Intermediate-Scale Hydraulic Fracture Tests
Jeffrey Burghardt, Hunter Knox, Chris Strickland +8
In a uniform stress field, a tensile hydraulic fracture will favor propagation in the plane formed by the maximum (most compressive) and intermediate principal stresses. For the pr…