Stored Heat

Stored Heat

Calculated thermal energy stored in a volume of hot rock. It is calculated using the rock volume, porosity, rock density, specific heat of rock, and the difference between the reservoir temperature and the background temperature given by the geothermal gradient outside the resource area.

Geothermal Glossary

Word of the Week – Numerical Modeling

Word of the Week – Numerical Modeling

Numerical Modeling Application of computational methods to solve complex problems that predict the behavior or the outcome of a real-world or physical system that evolves in space and time.

Word of the Week – Normal Fault

Word of the Week – Normal Fault

Normal Fault High angle fault that results from extensional stress and forms a steeply dipping planar structure. Slip movement during an earthquake is vertical and down dip. The down-dropped block is called the hanging wall and the uplifted block is called the...

Word of the Week – Packers and Plugs

Word of the Week – Packers and Plugs

Packers and Plugs Downhole devices emplaced into a well to seal zones and intervals so they can be pressurized by pumping fluid from the surface in order to stimulate fractures at a specified location. They are designed for temporary and permanent deployments,...

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