Webinar – Multistage stimulation, breakthrough for EGS? – Nov. 5, 2021

Webinar announcement

As part of the regular IGC Webinar series – a partnership of Enerchange and ThinkGeoEnergy – we are proud to host presenter Mark McClure from ResFrac Corp., who will speak about “Multistage Stimulation with Limited-Entry Completion Could Enable a Breakthrough for EGS”

Enhanced Geothermal Systems have been proposed to increase geothermal energy production by using hydraulic stimulation in low permeability formations. Traditionally, EGS stimulation has been performed in a vertical well, in an openhole section. Performance is limited by tendency for fluid localization to a small number of dominant flowing pathways. In the shale industry, technologies have been developed to overcome the tendency for flow localization, and force the creation of numerous, closely spaced fractures throughout a rock volume. These techniques have been tremendously successful in oil and gas, and hold great promise for EGS. They may enable a long-awaited breakthrough enabling higher flow rates and delayed thermal breakthrough.

In this presentation, he lays out the technical approach, and present numerical simulations demonstrating the impact on economic performance. Also, he will discuss several field demonstration projects that are testing these ideas.

After the presentation you have the possibility to discuss and ask questions.

You can register free of charge on https://www.igc.events/en/webinar