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IUGG XXIV General Assembly July 2-13, 2007 Perugia, Italy<br />

(S) - <strong>IASPEI</strong> - International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's<br />

Interior<br />

JSS017 Oral Presentation 2378<br />

New geothermal data from URAL SUPERDEEP WELL SG-4<br />

Prof. Yuri Popov<br />

Technical Physics and Rock Physics Russian State Geological Prospecting University <strong>IASPEI</strong><br />

Dmitriy Miklashevskiy, Raisa Romushkevich, Dmitriy Korobkov, Oleg Esipko<br />

Previous determinations of conductive component of heat flow density (HFD) for the Ural deep well SG-<br />

4 has been done within a depth interval 4004800 m (Popov et al., 1999) using results of the<br />

measurements of rock thermal properties on 4160 cores at normal conditions and temperature logging<br />

data for the well shut-in time of 5305 days. Influence of formation pressure and temperature on<br />

thermal conductivity (TC) has been estimated as negligible from literature data taking into account low<br />

temperatures of the formation (about 77 0C for 4800 m). The results have shown a significant increase<br />

in HFD with a depth from 23 to 60 mW/m2. New experimental geothermal data have been obtained in<br />

2005-2006 after the SG-4 well bottom has reached 6000 m. Equilibrium temperature gradient values<br />

have been estimated from the temperature logs recorded within a depth interval 376100 m. Additional<br />

measurements of rock TC have been performed on 416 cores from a depth interval of 48005951 m.<br />

Total length of cores studied reached ~600 m that is about 10% of a well length. Increase in rock<br />

thermal conductivity at water-saturation was established to be 520%. Amount of SG-4 cores studied<br />

exceeds by ~1.6 times a total amount of rock samples studied in geothermal investigations of the Ural<br />

earlier (near to 2800 samples acc. to I.Golovanova, 2005). Our new instrument has been applied to<br />

measure rock TC in-situ conditions at simultaneous influence of elevated temperature and pressure on<br />

19 cores uniformly selected from a depth interval of 6505939 m. The measurements confirmed that<br />

rock TC does not change essentially at formation pressure and temperature and decreases by 4% in<br />

average without a certain regularity with a depth. The HFD values have been determined for every<br />

depth interval of 100 m with slimming along the well by 10 m within a depth interval of 3005950 m.<br />

Within 3001100 m average HFD value (26-29 mW/m2) is in good accordance to previous data inferred<br />

from shallow wells (21-32 mW/m2). Essential HFD increase is observed below 1200 m. As a result, the<br />

HFD value reaches 53-62 mW/m2 within a depth interval of 35005950 m with average value of 55<br />

mW/m2. The obtained HFD data prejudice previous HFD estimates in the SG-4 drilling site, which could<br />

be understated, and raise a question on previous conclusions about abnormally low values of terrestrial<br />

HFD in the region. Authors wish to acknowledge generous support of Schlumberger Oilfield Services, an<br />

international company in oil and gas industry, and Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant 05-05-<br />

64879).<br />

Keywords: superdeep, heat, flow

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