Pranay Asai (University of Utah) and Robert Podgorney (Idaho National Laboratory) will discuss the effect of well orientation and placement on the overall heat recovery from the Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS).
Utah FORGE is a dedicated underground field laboratory sponsored by the Department of Energy for developing, testing, and accelerating breakthroughs in EGS technologies.
The Modeling and Simulation Forums will be recurring to keep the EGS community updated on our activities and, most importantly, to gain the community's feedback. This is the 6th forum of the series and is intended to have an open format to present modeling and simulation, both completed and planned, as well as activities being conducted by the Utah FORGE Team.
The inaugural Modeling and Simulation Forum was held on April 15, 2020. Topics that were covered included an overview of the Utah FORGE project, a description of the numerical methods and codes that have used, a summary of modelling results dealing with discrete fracture network, the distribution of stress, and the planning of well trajectories.