Geothermal Energy Engineering: Technology Transfer from the Oil and Gas Industry focuses on geothermal energy technology, engineering, field, and operational topics as seen from an oil and gas industry perspective. To accelerate development of an important source of clean energy during the energy transition, proven oil and gas technologies can pivot towards geothermal energy production, for both power generation and direct heat applications. The book's chapters are written by world-renewed subject matter experts who address practical applications optimized in the oil and gas industry that can be adapted to accelerate geothermal energy production. The book progresses from an introduction to geothermal energy, cover types of geothermal and hybrid systems, address geothermal subsurface characterization, exploration, drilling, completion and production, facilities and project management, and includes analysis of technical and economic aspects of geothermal systems, gaps and future opportunities.
Table of Contents
1. Overview of Geothermal Systems2. Resource Assessment and Management for Different Geothermal Systems (Hydrothermal, Enhanced Geothermal Systems, and Advanced Geothermal Systems)
3. Geothermal Well Drilling
4. Geothermal Well Construction and Completion: Overview of Casing Materials, Sizes, Depth, and Solutions
5. Well Integrity and Future Construction of Geothermal Wells
6. High-Temperature Geothermal Well Cementing
7. Geothermal Production, Injection and Storage Engineering
8. Stimulation in Enhanced Geothermal Systems
9. Production and Operation of Geothermal Systems
10. Simulation of Geothermal Resource Management
11. Artificial Intelligence in Geothermal Energy
12. Global screening for superhot rock geothermal energy: geodynamic settings, prospective heat endowment and extraction techniques
13. Geothermal Energy and Fluid Properties with a Special focus on Geothermal Non-Condensable Gases
Authors
Silviu Livescu Professor, Department of Geothermal Studies, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA. Dr. Livescu is a professor in the Department of Geothermal Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, SPE technical director for data science and engineering analytics, and editor-in-chief, Elsevier Geoenergy Science and Engineering. He has conducted fundamental and applied research, multidisciplinary research and technology development, diversified innovation, intellectual property, and management applied to several petroleum engineering and clean energy technical disciplines, with a focus on well engineering and operations (monitoring and telemetry systems, well intervention, stimulation, construction, production, and data science and engineering analytics). He is strongly committed to helping solve some of the most impactful energy transition and digital transformation problems for a net-zero, sustainable and affordable energy future. Birol Dindoruk Professor and AADE Endowed Professor, Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA.Dr. Birol Dindoruk is a professor and AADE-endowed professor in petroleum engineering at the University of Houston, United States. He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his significant theoretical and practical contributions to EOR & CO2 sequestration in 2017. Birol is an honorary member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), serves as an editor-in-chief of SPE
Journal, and in the past served as an editor-in-chief of Elsevier's Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering and Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. Birol previously worked at Shell for 23 years as a chief scientist of reservoir physics, one of seven allotted in the company.
