Resource Assessment for Geothermal Energy Resources

Geothermal resource assessment has always been a tricky affair. The assessment can be done at the several stages of the development which assures the stake holders investing in the project. In this chapter several methods of geothermal resource assessment have been discussed as per its application at different stages. Mostly the type of methods which are comely used are surface thermal flux, magmatic heat budget, total well flow, planar fracture method, lumped parameter modelling, power density/areal estimates, decline curve analysis, stored heat and numerical modelling. The most popular method for geothermal resource assessment is decline curve analysis. This method has had been regularly utilized to forecast prospective production. Another most reliable methods are volumetric analysis numerical modelling method for resource assessment. At the end in this chapter a section on application of AI and ML are used for resource assessment of geothermal energy.