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Title Estimating Individual Injectivity Indices for Two or More Feed-Zones in Geothermal Wells
Authors Þorsteinn EGILSON
Year 2020
Conference World Geothermal Congress
Keywords Spinner log, fluid velocity, injectivity, feed zone, pressure
Abstract Spinner logs are widely used for feed zone analysis in geothermal wells, both for location and permeability purposes. Traditionally, temperature logs have been used as a major basis for feed zone location and co-interpreted with circulation loss information during the drilling process, qualitative feed zone size has been estimated. In 2012 spinner logs were added to ÍSOR´s logging toolbox for supporting and improving feed zone analysis of geothermal wells. The feed zone analysis scheme introduced is based on a well-known fluid velocity determination with spinner logs and it assumes the same well diameter above and below each feed zone recognized from a change in fluid velocity. Up and down spinner-logs combined with corresponding pressure log at two different flow rates form the basis for a quantitative feed zone analysis to determine the injectivity index of individual feed zones. With a good quality spinner log, added feed zone indices accurately fit the total injectivity index obtained in a conventional injectivity test
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