Geothermal exploration is commonly performed in the absence of 3-D seismics or other high quality methods constraining the geometry of the underlying geological system. Therefore, uncertainty resides in the structural model itself. This is in addition to the usual assumption of stochasticity in the petrophysical properties. We show here that small changes in the geometrical description of the g...

Efforts to characterize geothermal supply have long been focused on the aspect of power generation [Petty, et al., 1992], [Petty, et al., 2007], and [Augustine, et al., 2010]. This paper focuses on an approach to characterize the supply curve of hydrogeothermal energy that can be used for direct use in the United States. It aims to compensate for the absence of research on thermal uses and prov...

The development of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) for the cogeneration of electricity and district heating has recently gained interest, and is expected to know an important development in the future. Major research questions on the design of the energy conversion system concern the increase of the efficiency in the usage of geothermal resources, as well as the increase of their economic pro...

Background (Ba,Sr)SO4 solid-solutions range among the most important scaling minerals, not only in geothermal energy production, but generally in applications involving hydrothermal brines, e.g. including petroleum production [e.g. (Todd and Yuan 1990, 1992; Kühn et al. 1997)]. Besides the general difficulties related to scale formation, like blockage of pipes, related decrease of well producti...