See us at the EGU General Assembly 2024 in Vienna on 14–19 April 2024; the event that brings together geoscientists from all over the world to present their latest work and discuss their ideas in all fields of geoscience!
Frantisek Stanek, Silixa’s Senior Geophysicist, will be presenting on “Analysis of DAS and slow strain measurements recorded during circulation tests at the FORGE geothermal underground laboratory” in session SM3.1 (Fibre-optic point and distributed sensing: theory, instrumentation, observations and modelling, room G2) on Wednesday, 17 April 2024 at 10:03 am.
His presentation will show an integrated view on the reservoir response to the subsurface operations at the FORGE geothermal site in Utah, USA.
FORGE (Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy) is an underground field laboratory sponsored by the US Department of Energy. It is situated above a young, hot granitoid formation and has been used as a testbed for methodology development required for sustainable Enhanced Geothermal Systems.
As part of a recent research work, circulation tests were performed. The tests were monitored from pre-existing vertical and newly drilled deviated wells over a period of approximately two days by Silixa’s distributed acoustic (DAS), distributed temperature (DTS) and distributed strain (DSS) fiber optic monitoring systems. During these tests microseismicity induced by the fluid pumped into the reservoir was recorded.
To learn more about the findings attend the presentation or to per-arrange a meeting with Frantisek Stanek please contact us.
