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Fracture Flow Permeability Mapping and Fluid Flow Monitoring at The Geysers

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Fracture Flow Permeability Mapping and Fluid Flow Monitoring at The Geysers

Published By California Energy Commission

Published May 2009
2 Page(s)

This project applies a new geophysical tool, GeoBILT, which was developed under a PIER contract, to the aggressive geothermal environment at The Geysers. The tool’s ability to map in three dimensions variations in resistivity in the vicinity of boreholes makes it a potentially powerful aid in subsurface delineation in both new and existing reservoirs, for siting new wells, make-up wells, step-out wells, and to improve a water injection program. The project hopes to show that subsurface fractures controlling fluid flow can be mapped in the geologically difficult setting of The Geysers.