Conceptual Model At Salton Sea Geothermal Area (1977)

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

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Exploration Activity: Conceptual Model At Salton Sea Geothermal Area (1977)

Exploration Activity Details
Location	Salton Sea Geothermal Area
Exploration Technique	Conceptual Model
Activity Date	1977
Usefulness	not indicated
DOE-funding	Unknown

Exploration Basis

Determine time to cool the geothermal field with reinjection

Notes

If reinjection and production wells intersect connected fractures, it is expected that reinjected fluid would cool the production well much sooner than would be predicted from calculations of flow in a porous medium. A method for calculating how much sooner that cooling will occur was developed.

References

• Kasameyer, P. W.; Schroeder, R. C.   (1 January 1977) Application of thermal depletion model to geothermal reservoirs with fracture and pore permeability