Geomechanical Challenges Associated with Geothermal Drilling, Stimulation and Production Session: 25-26 June 2013, San Francisco, California, USA
A successful Annex VII GIA Common Fund proposal supported the attendance of four contributors who presented the following papers:
- Seismic and Aseismic Motions Generated by Large-Scale Fluid Injections- François Henri Cornet, Inst. Physique du Globe, Strasbourg, France;
- Cornet et al. paper (pdf, 490 kB)
- Relationships between Slow Slip, Seismicity and Fluids Leakage During a Pressurized Fault Zone Rupture in-situ Experiment: Importance for Reservoir/Caprock Stimulation Monitoring and Efficiency Assessment- Yves Guglielmi, CEREGE Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France; et al.;
- Guglielmi et al. paper (pdf, 710 kB)
- Drilling Performance and Productivity of Geothermal Wells, Case History from the Hengill Area in Iceland- Bjorn Mar Sveinbjornsson and Sverrir Thorhallsson, Iceland GeoSurvey (ISOR), Reykjavik, Iceland;
- Sveinbjornsson & Thorhallsson paper (pdf, 2.1 MB)
- A Study of Coupled Thermo-mechanical Behaviour of Rocks: Geothermal Energy- Shao Shi, et al., Monash University, Melbourne, Australia;
- Shi et al. Paper (pdf, 570 kB)
- Coulomb stress change during and after tensile fracture opening in a geothermal reservoir- Urpi et al., GFZ German Research Centre For Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany;
- Urpi et al. paper (pdf, 580 kB)