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Articles | Volume 10, issue 4
Articles | Volume 10, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1155-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1155-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 10, issue 4
Research article
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22 Jul 2019
Research article |  | 22 Jul 2019

Stress characterization and temporal evolution of borehole failure at the Rittershoffen geothermal project

Jérôme Azzola, Benoît Valley, Jean Schmittbuhl, and Albert Genter

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In projects based on enhanced geothermal system (EGS) technology, knowledge of the in situ stress state is of central importance to predict the response of the rock mass to different stimulation programs. We propose a characterization of the in situ stress state from the analysis of ultrasonic borehole imager (UBI) data acquired at different key moments of the reservoir. We discuss a significant stress rotation at depth and the absence of a significant change in the stress magnitude.
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