| CPC F03G 4/072 (2021.08) [E21B 34/06 (2013.01); E21B 34/08 (2013.01); E21B 43/12 (2013.01); E21B 43/17 (2013.01); F03G 4/02 (2021.08); F24T 10/20 (2018.05); E21B 47/07 (2020.05); E21B 2200/06 (2020.05); F24T 2010/56 (2018.05); Y02E 10/10 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
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1. A method, comprising:
flowing a thermal transport fluid from a surface location to a geothermal reservoir along an injection flow path of a wellbore;
flowing the thermal transport fluid into the geothermal reservoir at each of a plurality of injection locations along the injection flow path;
flowing the thermal transport fluid from the geothermal reservoir into a return flow path of the wellbore at each of a plurality of return locations;
flowing the thermal transport fluid along the return flow path back to surface;
extracting thermal energy from the thermal transport fluid from the return flow path before flowing the thermal transport fluid back into the injection flow path of the wellbore; and
dynamically controlling a flow of the thermal transport fluid into or out of the geothermal reservoir in response to one or more downhole parameters of the thermal transport fluid and/or of the geothermal reservoir,
wherein dynamically controlling the flow of the thermal transport fluid comprises:
sensing the one or more downhole parameters at a plurality of sensor locations along the wellbore, wherein each sensor location, of the plurality of sensor locations, is spaced far enough from a respective one of the plurality of injection locations or plurality of return locations that the flow does not directly affect the one or more downhole parameters; and
dynamically adjusting the flow of the thermal transport fluid, respectively, at the plurality of injection locations or the plurality of return locations in relation to the one or more downhole parameters.
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