Reservoir Development Services

Drilling and well completion represent only half of the wellfield system, developing and maintain a reservoir capable of high flow rates and heat transfer without jeopardizing rapid cooling of the hot rock represents another significant challenge. In order to enable SHR everywhere, reservoirs must be engineered in impermeable rock at great depths using advanced methods to stimulate a sufficient volume of rock to create needed permeability and develop technology and processes to maintain steady state flow over a 2o+ year lifecycle. ARE is engaging in numerical modeling and empirical research to understand rock mechanics at target SHR temperatures and depths to improve upon stimulation and reservoir development techniques in addition to building the tools to model multiphase flow for supercritical fluids and related geochemistry in order to optimize and operate SHR reservoirs in the future.