End-of-Well Science Programme Report DEL-GT-01 and DEL-GT-02

TU Delft campus geothermal project

Report (2024)
Authors

Phil Vardon (Geo-engineering)

S. Laumann (TU Delft - Applied Geophysics and Petrophysics)

Beer van Esser (TU Delft - Lab Geoscience and Engineering)

L.J.H. Ursem (TU Delft - Reservoir Engineering)

B. van Schravendijk (TU Delft - Reservoir Engineering)

L. Vargas Meleza (TU Delft - Lab Geoscience and Engineering)

A. Barnhoorn (TU Delft - Applied Geophysics and Petrophysics)

H.A. Abels (TU Delft - Applied Geology)

A.G. Vondrak (TU Delft - Lab Geoscience and Engineering)

G. Drijkoningen (TU Delft - Applied Geophysics and Petrophysics)

Piet van Paassen (TU Delft - Lab Geoscience and Engineering)

K.N. Elliott (TU Delft - Lab Geoscience and Engineering)

J.J. van den Berg (TU Delft - Lab Geoscience and Engineering)

M. Friebel (TU Delft - Lab Geoscience and Engineering)

Affiliation
Geo-engineering
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Publication Year
2024
Language
English
Affiliation
Geo-engineering
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:6ce07471-6986-434e-aa24-ad6e1f6714d9
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Abstract

The TU Delft campus geothermal project has joint objectives of research and commercial thermal energy production. It has been developed and will be operated by the Geothermie Delft (GTD) consortium, a commercial cooperation between TU Delft, Aardyn, EBN and Shell Geothermal. This report gives an overview of the research activities that have been carried out during the implementation of the doublet drilling the wells DEL-GT-01 and DEL-GT-02, and the sidetracks DEL-GT-02-S1 and DEL-GT-02-S2 in the period June - December 2023. The research programme and related operations during the installation of the campus geothermal wells have been led by the scientific team of TU Delft department of Geoscience and Engineering. The project is part of the national research infrastructure for solid Earth science (https://epos-nl.nl/), and offers the possibility to do state of the art research on an operating geothermal system.
The main research activities that were carried out during the implementation of the geothermal wells included rock sampling in the form of a detailed drill cutting sampling set, full cores and sidewall cores of the caprock and the geothermal reservoir, open-hole logging of the reservoir formations and the installation of a fibre optic cable in the producer (still to be carried out).
Overall, the following samples and data were collected as part of the scientific programme:
- 15m of 4”core from the direct caprock of the producer reservoir section
- 71m of 4”core from the reservoir section of the producer
- 78 sidewall cores from the injector reservoir section
- 2400 cutting samples
- 3000m of open-hole and closed-hole logging data
Details of these activities can be found in the report and the related appendices. All data presented in this report have been published via TU Delft institutional data repository and can be found online as part of the data collection associated with the research programme of the project: Geothermal Project on TU Delft Campus Collection at https://doi.org/10.4121/85b3725b-80fa-4b0b-9db2-475bfd8f0265.

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