H13O:
Conventional, Enhanced, and Emerging Geothermal Systems: Characterization, Integration, Stimulation, Simulation, Induced Seismicity, and Reservoir Energy Management I

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Session ID#: 16966

Session Description:
Exploration and exploitation of geothermal heat and subsurface fluid storage capacity provide opportunities to increase energy options, energy market and supply flexibility, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions. We are seeking contributions from theoretical and technological advances that address site selection, characterization and data integration, fracture stimulation, reservoir simulation, operational strategies, and fluid-induced seismicity. We encourage presentations on modeling tools that integrate thermal, mechanical, geophysical, chemical and hydrological processes for geothermal design and simulation, stimulation predictions and trigged induced seismicity, thermal and chemical tracers, working fluid selection, geochemical reactions with surrounding rock, and integration into the broader energy system. Presentations on the economic benefits of reservoir heat extraction, energy storage and dispatch management for large scale power plant are highly encouraged.
Primary Convener:  Souheil M Ezzedine, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Conveners:  Jeffrey M Bielicki, Ohio State University, Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, Columbus, United States, Martin O Saar, ETH Zurich, Geothermal Energy and Geofluids, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland; ETH Zurich, Geothermal Energy and Geofluids Group, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland and Markus Hilpert, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
Chairs:  Souheil M Ezzedine, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, Markus Hilpert, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, Martin O Saar, ETH Zurich, Geothermal Energy and Geofluids, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland; ETH Zurich, Geothermal Energy and Geofluids Group, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland and Jeffrey M Bielicki, Ohio State University, Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, Columbus, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Martin O Saar, ETH Zurich, Geothermal Energy and Geofluids, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland; ETH Zurich, Geothermal Energy and Geofluids Group, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland

Cross-Listed:
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
  • S - Seismology
Index Terms:

1034 Hydrothermal systems [GEOCHEMISTRY]
1822 Geomechanics [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1878 Water/energy interactions [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Current Challenges in Geothermal Reservoir Simulation (181565)
Thomas Driesner, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland
Overview and Preliminary Results from the PoroTomo project at Brady Hot Springs, Nevada: Poroelastic Tomography by Adjoint Inverse Modeling of Data from Seismology, Geodesy, and Hydrology (119495)
Kurt L Feigl1, Michael A Cardiff2, Xiangfang Zeng3, Neal Edward Lord3, Chelsea Lancelle3, Lesley Parker3, Elena C. Reinisch3, David Lim3, Tabrez Ali4, Dante Fratta5, Clifford H Thurber6, Herbert F Wang7, Michelle Robertson8, Janice Lopeman9, Corne Kreemer10, Christina Morency11, Nicholas Christopher Davatzes12, PoroTomo Team3, Thomas Coleman13 and Douglas Miller14, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geoscience, Madison, WI, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Geoscience, Madison, WI, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Geoscience, Madison, WI, United States, (4)AIR Worldwide Corporation, Boston, MA, United States, (5)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Geological Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, United States, (6)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geoscience, Madison, United States, (7)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (8)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, (9)Ormat Technologies Inc., Reno, NV, United States, (10)Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada - Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (11)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (12)Temple Univ-Geol, Earth & Env, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (13)Silixa LLC, Missoula, United States, (14)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
3D Numerical Modeling of Thermal Convection in Multiple Fractures (156939)
James W Patterson, ETH Zurich, ERDW, Zurich, Switzerland, Thomas Driesner, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland and Stephan Matthai, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
An Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) System for Continuous and Sustainable Cold Supply in Oman (157138)
Gerd Winterleitner, Felina Schütz and Ernst Huenges, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany
Enhanced characterization of faults and fractures at EGS sites by CO2 injection coupled with active seismic monitoring, pressure-transient testing, and well logging (192064)
Thomas M Daley1, Curtis M Oldenburg2, Andrea Borgia2, Rui Zhang3, Christine Doughty4, Yoojin Jung4, Bilgin Altundas5, Nikita Chugunov6 and T S Ramakrishnan5, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Geophysics, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Schlumberger-Doll Research Center Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)Schlumberger-Doll Research, Cambridge, MA, United States
Earth Battery: An Approach for Reducing the Carbon and Water Intensity of Energy (167385)
Thomas A Buscheck, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, Jeffrey M Bielicki, Ohio State University, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, Columbus, OH, United States and Jimmy Randolph, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Matched Filter Detection of Microseismicity at Ngatamariki and Rotokawa Geothermal Fields, Central North Island, New Zealand (152700)
Chet J Hopp1, Martha K Savage2, John Townend1 and Steven Sherburn3, (1)Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, (2)Victoria University of Wellington, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand, (3)GNS Science, Taupo, New Zealand
The Geothermic Fatigue Hydraulic Fracturing Experiment in Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory, Sweden: New Insights Into Fracture Process through In-situ AE Monitoring (161710)
Katrin Plenkers1, Grzegorz Kwiatek2, Arno Zang2, Ove Stephansson2 and Leif Stenberg3, (1)Gesellschaft für Materialprüfung und Geophysik mbH, Bad Nauheim, Germany, (2)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (3)SKB Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management, Stockholm, Sweden

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