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Federal
Utah FORGE 2-2446: Closing the Loop Between In-situ Stress Complexity and EGS Fracture Complexity - 2025 Workshop Presentation
Department of Energy —
This is a presentation on the Closing the Loop Between In-situ Stress Complexity and EGS Fracture Complexity project by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,... -
Federal
Utah FORGE 5-2428: Fracture Permeability Impact on Reservoir Stress and Seismic Slip Behavior - 2025 Workshop Presentation
Department of Energy —
This is a presentation on the Fracture Permeability Impact on Seismic Slip Behavior project by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, presented by Dr. Kayla A.... -
Federal
Mapping Fracture Network Creation with Microseismicity During EGS Demonstrations
Department of Energy —
This a report for the project "Mapping Fracture Network Creation with Microseismicity During EGS Demonstrations". Effective enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) require... -
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Active Management of Integrated Geothermal-CO2 Storage Reservoirs in Sedimentary Formations
Department of Energy —
Active Management of Integrated Geothermal-CO2 Storage Reservoirs in Sedimentary Formations: An Approach to Improve Energy Recovery and Mitigate Risk: FY1 Final... -
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Generalized Displacement Correlation Method for Estimating Stress Intensity Factors
Department of Energy —
This paper presents a generalized form of the displacement correlation method (the GDC method), which can use any linear or quadratic finite element type with... -
Federal
Geomechanical Modeling for Thermal Spallation Drilling
Department of Energy —
Wells for Engineered Geothermal Systems (EGS) typically occur in conditions presenting significant challenges for conventional rotary and percussive drilling... -
Federal
Applications of Geothermally-Produced Colloidal Silica in Reservoir Management - Smart Gels
Department of Energy —
In enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) the reservoir permeability is often enhanced or created using hydraulic fracturing. In hydraulic fracturing, high fluid pressures... -
Federal
Simulating Complex Fracture Systems in Geothermal Reservoirs Using an Explicitly Coupled Hydro-Geomechanical Model
Department of Energy —
Low permeability geothermal reservoirs can be stimulated by hydraulic fracturing to create Enhanced (or Engineered) Geothermal Systems (EGS) with higher permeability... -
Federal
Thermal Drawdown-Induced Flow Channeling in a Single Fracture in EGS
Department of Energy —
The evolution of flow pattern along a single fracture and its effects on heat production is a fundamental problem in the assessments of engineered geothermal systems... -
Federal
Chemical Impact of Elevated CO2 on Geothermal Energy Production
Department of Energy —
Numerical simulations have shown that the use of supercritical CO2 instead of water as a heat transfer fluid yields significantly greater heat extraction rates for...