Comparison of simulations of the Tanawon sector simultaneous discharge test in Bacon-Manito geothermal field in the Philippines

Abstract

The Tanawon simultaneous discharge test pressure monitoring data was simulated using lumped parameter, numerical reservoir models, and then with the same models coupled with wellbore simulator HOLA. Ten-year forecasts were run using the various models and the results were compared. The wellbore simulator was used to check whether the wells could produce, assuming the pressure drawdown forecasted by the lumped parameter models. The wellbore simulator was also implicitly coupled with a BGPF numerical reservoir model, which resulted in the extension of the life of the wells in the model due to boiling.