Utah FORGE Project 3-2535: Numerical Modeling of Energized Steel-Casing Source for Imaging Stimulated Zone

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This short report details and tests the workflow that will be used to simulate steel well casings in deviated production/extraction boreholes at at the Utah FORGE site. Boreholes will be electrically energized and will serve as data sources for future proposed electromagnetic borehole surveys, which will be used to delineate/estimate the size and porosity of the main FORGE stimulated reservoir. FORGE project 3-2535 is planning on using a casing source EM method for detecting and imaging a deep localized stimulated fracture zone at the Utah FORGE site. Details on other stages of the project are included in the linked GDR submissions below.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Report on possible geodetic signature of the 3 stimulations in April 2022 as well as a comparison with existing InSAR data gathered over the site before, during, and after the stimulation. https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/1471
21 This report outlines the creation of three 3D resistivity models that will be used to determine the sensitivity of EM measurements for the hypothetical stimulated reservoir at FORGE as well as for EM survey design. https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/1436
21 Numerical modeling Studies for EM Data Acquisition Survey Design - this milestone report describes the 3D modeling studies of energized steel-casing source electromagnetic method for detecting stimulated zone at the Utah FORGE Site. https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/1474
33 The goal of this report is to demonstrate the accuracy of the 'equivalent source' method mentioned above by presenting a comparison between this approximation and more rigorous solutions to an electrically energized casing embedded in a simple Earth model. https://gdr.openei.org/files/1433/FORGE_milestone_4p2_11_7_2022_v4.pdf

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  • egs
  • utah-forge
  • remote-sensing
  • well-characterization
  • well-16b
  • well-16a
  • geothermal
  • energy

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