Three Principal Results from Recent Fenton Hill Flow Testing
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Conference Paper: Three Principal Results from Recent Fenton Hill Flow Testing
Abstract
Results of recent flow testing at Fenton Hill, New Mexico, have been examined in light of their applicability to the development of commercial-scale hot dry rock (HDR) reservoirs at other sites. These test results, obtained during the cumulative 11 months of reservoir flow testing between 1992 and 1995, show that there was no significant production temperature drawdown during this time and that the reservoir flow became more dispersed as flow testing proceeded. Based on these test results together with previous HDR research at Fenton Hill and elsewhere, it is concluded that a three-well geometry, with one centrally located injection well and twoproduction wells -- one at each end of the pressurestimulated reservoir region -- would provide a much more productive system for future HDR development than the two-well system tested at Fenton Hill.
- Authors
- Donald Brown and Robert DuTeaux
- Conference
- 21st Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering; Stanford, CA; 01/27/1997
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Citation
Donald Brown,Robert DuTeaux. 1997. Three Principal Results from Recent Fenton Hill Flow Testing. In: Proc., 21st Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering. 21st Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering; 01/27/1997; Stanford, CA. Stanford, CA: Stanford University; p. 185-190
Related Geothermal Exploration Activities
Activities (3)
- Flow Test At Fenton Hill HDR Geothermal Area (Brown, 1994)
- Modeling-Computer Simulations At Fenton Hill HDR Geothermal Area (Brown & DuTeaux, 1997)
- Tracer Testing At Fenton Hill HDR Geothermal Area (Callahan, 1996)
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