Novel Productivity Enhancement Concept for a Sustainable Utilization of a Geothermal Resource – The H2020 SURE Project

Thomas  Reinsch; Guido Blöcher; David  Bruhn; Jörg  Zotzmann; Volker Wittig; Ingólfur Örn  Þorbjörnsson; Gunnar Skúlason  Kaldal; Koos  Hoogland; Elisabeth Peters; John-Paul Latham; Sigitas  Petrauskas; Saulius Sliaupa; Hamidreza  M. Nick

Novel Productivity Enhancement Concept for a Sustainable Utilization of a Geothermal Resource – The H2020 SURE Project

Thomas Reinsch^*, Guido Blöcher, David Bruhn, Jörg Zotzmann, Volker Wittig, Ingólfur Örn Þorbjörnsson, Gunnar Skúlason Kaldal, Koos Hoogland, Elisabeth Peters, John-Paul Latham, Sigitas Petrauskas, Saulius Sliaupa, Hamidreza M. Nick

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Within the EC funded Horizon 2020 project SURE (Novel Productivity Enhancement Concept for a Sustainable Utilization of a Geothermal Resource) the radial jet drilling (RJD) technology is investigated and tested as a method to increase performance of insufficiently performing geothermal wells. Radial jet drilling uses the power of a focused jet of fluids, applied to a rock through a coil inserted in an existing well. This technology is likely to provide much better control of the enhanced flow paths around a geothermal well and does not involve the amount of fluid as conventional hydraulic fracturing, thereby reducing the risk of induced seismicity considerably. RJD shall be applied to access and connect high permeable zones within geothermal reservoirs to the main well with a higher degree of control compared to conventional stimulation technologies. We investigated the technology over various spatial and temporal scales ranging from short term laboratory experiments to field scale applications. Here we give an overview about our work.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings World Geothermal Congress 2020
Number of pages	6
Publication date	2020
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	World Geothermal Congress 2020 - Reykjavik, Iceland Duration: 26 Apr 2020 → 2 May 2020

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Conference	World Geothermal Congress 2020
Country/Territory	Iceland
City	Reykjavik
Period	26/04/2020 → 02/05/2020

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Radial Water Jet Drilling
Reservoir Stimulation
Drilling

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