Experiment 2042

Technical Report · Mon Sep 10 00:00:00 EDT 1984

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1244355· OSTI ID:1244355

Dash, Zora V. ^[1]; Dennis, Bert R. ^[1]; Dreesen, Donald S. ^[1]; Fehler, Michael C. ^[1]; House, Leigh S. ^[1]; Walter, Fritz ^[1]; Zyvoloski, George A. ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Experiment 2042, an injection test in EE-3, was conducted from May 15, 1984 through May 19, 1984. During this four day test ~2 million gallons of water were injected with a maximum injection rate of ~10BPM at 6000 psi. It was planned as a pumping test of the lower zone of well EE-3 (the open hole region from 11,400 ft to 11,648 ft) to test the reservoir characteristics and fracture-seismic system first created during Experiment 2025. However early in the experiment it became apparent that there was some sort connection between the lower zone and the upper "low pressure" zone in EE-3 (from the casing shoe at 10374 ft to about 10900 ft). Available information ruled out a packer failure or other direct connection between these zones so the experiment was continued as planned. Although not a major goal of the experiment, it was hoped that fractures would propagate from EE-3 to EE-2, so hydraulic communication could be established between the two wells, however this did not occur.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1244355
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-15-29043-22
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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