The Australian Geothermal Affiliation might be internet hosting a webinar on HR-AFE, a fault modeling system for figuring out productive zones and mitigating dangers.
Registration is at present open for a webinar to be hosted by the Australian Geothermal Affiliation on “Discovering move and mitigating induced seismicity in geothermal initiatives via Hello-res Seismic Fault Extraction.” Attendance is free for all.
The small print of the occasion are as follows:
- Date: 18 April 2024, 5:30 to six:30 PM AWST
- Speaker: Ralf Opperman, Director, OPPtimal Useful resource Options
- Registration: Register through this hyperlink
Geothermal power has the potential to play a vital position within the sustainable world power combine. There are, nonetheless, a number of technical and financial challenges that have to be overcome to de-risk geothermal improvement and manufacturing and to assist speed up industrial uptake (Drumm et al. 2021).
Two of the important thing technical challenges for many sorts of deeper geothermal improvement are guaranteeing that enough and steady move of fluid is encountered (move assurance) and that geothermal operations don’t set off earthquakes (induced seismicity danger mitigation).
Each of those key challenges can truly be addressed with the newest game-changing developments within the dependable recognition of smaller-scale fault networks in seismic knowledge, which might be offered on this discuss.
Hello-Res Automated Fault Extraction (HR-AFE) permits to very reliably visualize fault networks in 2D or 3D seismic knowledge and immediately relate these to drilling and manufacturing points, permitting to create alternatives to considerably scale back drilling and stimulation/fracking prices and in addition enhance manufacturing from subsurface property.
Ralf Oppermann is a Geoscientist and Technical Advisor with 34 years of expertise, obtained working for Shell and Chevron and a number of different Oil & Fuel, Mining and Geothermal firms. In 2008, Ralf based OPPtimal Useful resource Options (‘OPPtimal’) as a know-how service firm, to supply new and modern useful resource characterization options to firms lively in Oil & Fuel, Shale Fuel, Coal Seam Fuel, Mining, Geothermal, Groundwater, CO2 Sequestration and Underground Storage. OPPtimal has developed a Recreation-Altering and AAPG-awarded know-how technique to very reliably establish smaller-scale faults from 2D or 3D seismic knowledge and immediately relate these to drilling and manufacturing points.
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