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Table 3 Sensitivity of the area against changes in porosity

From: Production forecast and estimation of the recovery factor of the Los Humeros geothermal field, Mexico

Well

\(r\left({\phi }_{100\mathrm{\%}}\right)\) (%)

\(r\left({\phi }_{80\mathrm{\%}}\right)\) (%)

\(r\left({\phi }_{50\mathrm{\%}}\right)\) (%)

\(r\left({\phi }_{20\mathrm{\%}}\right)\) (%)

H7

100

+ 3

+ 8

+ 13

H12

100

+ 2

+ 6

+ 10

H9

100

+ 2

+ 5

+ 9

  1. From the lack of a proper porosity–depth model for Los Humeros, this comparison took 3 different values of \(\phi\). \(\mathrm{r}\left({\phi }_{100\mathrm{\%}}\right)\) represents the porosity average for this well considering the value at lab conditions reported by Weydt et al. (2020). The entries \(\mathrm{r}\left({\phi }_{80\mathrm{\%}}\right), \left({\phi }_{50\mathrm{\%}}\right), \left({\phi }_{20\mathrm{\%}}\right)\) show the sensitivity on the radius calculation when the porosity decreases by 80, 50 and 20%, respectively. It can be seen that the radius is sensitive to these changes and the highest level of variation is when only 20% of the original value is considered