Sponsored Session: Fiber Optic Sensing Ecosystem for Geothermal Wells and Assets

The economic model for geothermal power plants is based on the feasibility of maximum, sustainable exploitation of a geothermal resource across the lifetime of an asset and operating geothermal powerplants still have their unique challenges with some obvious technical barriers that exist preventing massive adoption. When operating a geothermal field, we find that there are often infrequent and limited visibility of the production and recharge performance of the resource and wellbore diagnostics due to inability or high cost associated to measure in hot downhole environments. Sparse feedback from the field makes sustainable heat exploitation difficult to control, and fast decline rates, lowering enthalpy, well deferments and early field expansion difficult to avoid. With introduction of OptaSense’s pioneering distributed fiber optic technology, we look to supply low-cost, sustainable monitoring solutions for geothermal wells and assets for both classic conventional reservoirs and enhanced geothermal systems (EGS). We imagine smart wells and an intelligent reservoir management system that fully connects field operations to the subsurface. Together we will go through current and future applications for sustainable monitoring and actionable insight offered by fiber optic solutions for completions monitoring, well integrity, reservoir characterization, and injection and production profiling of geothermal wells. We see this technology offering numerous benefits for lowering operational costs and maximizing heat production profits by envisioning the ability for proactive operational control, early issue identification, precise new well placement, and refined reservoir models.