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• Main Author: KRISTIAN TAMPUBOLON (NIM: 12212057), TEGUH
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/31259
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Hydraulic fracturing is one of the well stimulation methods that used pressurized fluid to be injected to the well and create the fracture so that the production of reservoir with problems like low permeability or skin damage can be increased by increasing the permeability of the reservoir. In Geothermal area, the hydraulic fracturing may be applied to the well where there was misinterpretation of geologic data that cause the drilling did not break the feed zone area, and the cost of the re-drilling is really high. It can also be applied where the reservoir naturally has very low permeability. The application of hydraulic fracturing in Geothermal well is not a new method. It has been applied since 1970 at Fenton Hill, New Mexico, a hot dry rock reservoir area. In Indonesia, the hydraulic fracturing, combined with thermal fracturing, has been applied in Salak Geothermal Field to increase its permeability. <br /> <br /> This paper is focused on the effect of fracturing fluid selection to the conductivity and fracturing fluid efficiency of a model of hydrothermal reservoir, as this type of reservoir commonly exploited nowadays. The method to evaluate the effect is by simulation techniques using FracCADE 5.1 simulator. The input parameters for the geothermal well data are obtained by study the literature of the existing reservoir properties of geothermal wells around the world. The fracturing fluid effect simulation is also varied by the rock type. The rock type and fluid selection choose based on the availability of the software. It is expected from the result in this paper can be used for advance research.