Evaluating geothermal energy production from suspended oil and gas wells by using data mining

Tamer Moussa and Hassan Dehghanpour

Renewable Energy, 2022, vol. 196, issue C, 1294-1307

Abstract: Can suspended oil and gas wells be retrofitted to generate geothermal power? This study answers this question by evaluating and indexing the geothermal potential of suspended wells completed in Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) and identifying the best candidates for repurposing.

Keywords: Retrofitting suspended oil and gas well; Geothermal energy extraction; Supervised fuzzy clustering; Temperature gradient distribution in WCSB; Bottomhole temperature validation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2022.06.090

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