Application of geostatistics for analysis of the prospects for the exploitation of the Khankala geothermal waters deposit.

№1 (2015)

Farkhutdinov A.M.de Fouquet Ch., Mintsaev M.SH.,Cherkasov S.V.

Abstract

The article deals with the use of geostatistics for the development of the Khankala geothermal waters deposit ofthe Chechen Republic. In 2013, a project for the construction of an experimental geothermal plant on the basis of themost promising XIII layer of the Khankala deposit of geothermal waters was launched. Geostatistical techniques are used for the temperature of the thermal water in the productive well prediction and structural map of XIII layer creation. Advantages and features of methods such as ordinary kriging and internal random functions kriging are considered. On an example of mapping the temperature distribution and structural map of the roof of the XIII productive layer as well as its comparison with the old map, the efficacy of modern geostatistical methods is demonstrated.

Section: Application of GIS technologies

Keywords: geothermal waters, modeling, geostatistics, kriging.