A Fracture Modeling System has been developed by Electric Power Development Company (EPDC) to facilitate the interpretation, display and analysis of fractures identified by borehole imaging tools. Borehole images of individual fractures provide understanding of the local properties of the fracture itself. If an integrated model of the field’s large-scale fracture system could be developed, it w...

A borehole drilled to a total depth of 6779 m in granitic rock in Gravberg, Sweden, was sampled and examined for the presence of anaerobic, thermophilic, fermenting bacteria and sulfate-reducing bacteria. Growth in enrichment cultures was obtained only from water samples collected from a specific sampling depth in the borehole (3500 m). The hole was cased down to a depth of 5278 m and open to t...

Abstract: The motive of the study is to establish a seepage flow model of pinnate horizontal well in infinite reservoir according to the characteristics of 3D distribution of CBM pinnate horizontal well. Taking flow pressure drop along the main and branch boreholes into consideration, the fluid flow formulas of CBM pinnate horizontal well are proposed. The corresponding calculation program has ...

A small, light, wireless borehole probe has been developed and built which consists of pressure and temperature sensors and a mini-datalogger/programmed microprocessor in a closed metal tube, water-tight up to 100 bar. The probe (235mm long, 23mm dia, 99.8 g) sinks in completed but not yet working borehole heat exchangers (BHEs) through its own weight to the bottom of the BHE U-tube and records...

Fugro-McClelland Marine Geosciences Inc.’s piezoprobe, a penetrationbased tool used to determine pore pressure and hydrologic properties within a borehole, was deployed for the first time in the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) on ODP Leg 204 in July 2002. Analysis of the piezoprobe data suggests that in situ pore pressure is 9.5 MPa, which is approximately the hydrostatic pressure (9.53 MPa). The ...

S U M M A R Y This paper describes a new algorithm based on the spectral method for the computation of Stoneley wave dispersion and attenuation propagating in cylindrical structures composed of fluid, elastic and poroelastic layers. The spectral method is a numerical method which requires discretization of the structure along the radial axis using Chebyshev points. To approximate the differenti...

Total thermal resistance of ground heat exchanger (GHE) is comprised of that of the soil and inside the borehole. The thermal resistance of soil can be calculated using the linear source theory and cylindrical source theory, while that inside the borehole is more complicated due to the integrated resistance of fluid convection, and the conduction through pipe and grout. Present study evaluates ...

The KiK-net is a vertical array system, and seismic motions are recorded at the ground surface and in the borehole. With the peak acceleration of 24.5 m/s2 at AKTH04 (EW) and 38.7 m/s2 at IWTH25 (UD) during the Iwate–Miyagi Nairiku earthquake in 2008, the occurrence mechanism of large accelerations is investigated by the non-stationary Fourier spectra and the double integrated displacement prof...

Estimates of ground surface temperature changes and continental energy storage from geothermal data have become well-accepted indicators of climatic changes. These estimates are independent contributions to the ensemble of paleoclimatic reconstructions and have been used for the validation of general circulation models, and as a component of the energy budget accounting of the global climate sy...

In a fluid-saturated porous medium, an electromagnetic (EM) wavefield induces an acoustic wavefield due to the electrokinetic effect. A potential geophysical application of this effect is electroseismic (ES) logging, in which the converted acoustic wavefield is received in a fluid-filled borehole to evaluate the parameters of the porous formation around the borehole. In this paper, a finite-dif...