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1 Protection of Concrete in Cooling Towers from Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion Commercial Development of Enhanced Geothermal Systems Using the Combined EGS-Hydrothermal Technologies Approach Geogard SX: A Silica Scale Inhibitor for Geothermal Brine p. 15 Geothermal Flow Metering Errors p. 23 Electrical Submersible Pumps for Geothermal Resources p. 27 Steam Purchase Contract: A Singular Mexican Experience p. 33 Biological Abatement of Hydrogen Sulfide in a Geothermal Process p. 37 Filler Materials for Polyphenylenesulphide Composite Coatings p. 41 Internet-Based Plant Monitoring and Control: Significant Savings at an Affordable Price Al fin calientes ("Warm at last") - District Heating on the High Plains of Paquime p. 51 p. 1 p. 9 p. 47 Direct Use of Geothermal Energy in the United States p. 57 The Economics of Connecting Small Buildings to Geothermal District Heating Systems p. 61 Assessing the Business Viability of Geothermal District Energy p. 67 Institutional, Technical and Economic Problems in Direct Use Geothermal Applications in Turkey The Use of a Drilling Simulator to Optimize a Well Drilling Plan p. 79 A Non-Conventional Way of Developing Cement Slurry for Geothermal Wells p. 85 Indonesian LCM Evaluation Tests Using a Modified API Bridging - Materials Tester p. 93 Numerical Simulation of Anhydrite Scaling in Production Well at the Sumikawa Geothermal Field, Japan Polyurethane Grouting of Rye Patch Lost Circulation Zone p. 109 Deep Wireline Coring in Geothermal Reservoirs p. 115 Mechanical Property Issues for Geothermal Well Cements p. 119 PDC Bits Demonstrate Benefit Over Conventional Hard-Rock Drill Bits p. 125 Application of Dual-Tube Flooded Reverse Circulation Drilling to Rye Patch Lost Circulation Zone p. 71 p. 99 p. 133 Casing Mechanical Integrity Tests Utilizing Wireline Ultrasonic Imaging Logs p. 139 Geothermal Drilling on the Kuril Islands: The Study of Deep Cross Sections p. 145 Drilling Plan into the Recently Erupted Unzen Volcano and Borehole Temperature Simulations 161 Production Variations after Repairing Wells of the La Primavera Geothermal Field, Mexico Data Acquisition and Analysis of Microseismicity from Simulation of Deep Reservoir at Soultz by the MTC/MURPHY International Collaborative Project Application of GEOCRACK-2D and -3D to Modelling Thermal Drawdown in the Soultz Hot Dry Rock System An Overview of the Ogachi HDR Project - Verification of the Reservoir Evaluation Methods Using Data from Well OGC-3 Detailed Natural Fracture and Stress Distribution Revealed by FMI and UBI Loggings in the Newly Drilled OGC-3 Well at Ogachi HDR Test Site, Japan p. 149 p. 155 p. 161 p. 167 p. 173 p. 177

2 An Integrated Geosciences and Engineering Approach to Put Low Permeability Aquifers to Use Evaluation of the Soultz HDR System by Precise Mapping Techniques of Induced Microseismic Event p. 181 p. 187 Concept for an Enhanced Geothermal Reservoir at The Geysers p. 191 Fluid Flow Vectors and Water Mass Balance in Kakkonda and its Surrounding Geothermal Area, Northeast Japan Estimation of Productivity from the Shallow Reservoir Using by Pressure Monitoring Data in SKG-2 at the Hijiori HDR Test Site Zonal Isolation in Stimulation Treatments and Gas/Water Shutoff Using Thermally Compensated Inflatable Packers and Plugs The Post-MTC International Collaborative Project for Multidisciplinary Understanding of Reservoir Physics Model Predictions of Chemically Controlled Slow Crack Growth with Application to Mechanical Effects in Geothermal Environments p. 195 p. 199 p. 203 p. 209 p. 213 Effect of Fluid Leak-Off on Heat Extraction from a Fracture in Hot Dry Rock p. 217 Fractures in Rocks of the Central and Southern Cascade Volcanic Mountain Range, Washington, USA Fracture Generation and Water-Rock Interaction Processes in Supercritical Deep-Seated Geothermal Reservoirs p. 221 p. 225 Effect of Fluid Leakage at the Crack Tip on Dynamics of Penny-Shaped Fluid-Filled Crack p. 231 Dynamic Response of a Fluid-Filled Fracture by the Two-Dimensional Finite Difference Method Evidence for Fluid Flow in Non-Brittle Takidani Granite Implications for Utilization of DSGRs Results from Two Informal Workshops on Geothermal Facility Siting Issues at Federal Lands p. 237 p. 243 p. 251 Olkaria Geothermal Power Plant Gaseous Emissions - A Flower Trial Case Study p. 257 Flora Preservation and Ecological Restoration at the Las Tres Virgenes, Mexico, Geothermal Field p. 263 Regional Geothermal Resource Management Policy in Turkey - A Regulatory Draft p. 267 Major Geothermal Provinces and Their Environmental Impact in India p. 273 Geothermal Resources of Utah-2001: Description of a Digital Atlas for Utah's Geothermal Resources Modeling Supercritical Systems With Tough2: The EOS1sc Equation of State Module and a Basin and Range Example Dealing with Geologic Uncertainties in Drilling Geothermal Wells: A Case History from the Azores p. 281 p. 285 p. 291 The Iceland Deep Drilling Project: A Search for Supercritical Fluid p. 297 A New Geothermal Resource Map of Nicaragua p. 301 Geobotanical Remote Sensing for Geothermal Exploration p. 307 Geological Description and Interpretation of Cores from Cerro Prieto Geothermal Field, Mexico North-Paramushir Hydrothermal-Magmatic System: The Geological Structure, Probable Sources of Heat Flows and Geothermal Resource Geologic and Geophysical Evidence for Intra-Basin and Footwall Faulting at Dixie Valley, Nevada p. 313 p. 317 p. 323

3 Life and Energy in Deep and Shallow Hydrothermal Systems Near the Mexican Coast of the Pacific Ocean p. 327 Correlation of Surface Heat Loss and Total Energy Production for Geothermal Systems p. 331 Use of Illite Crystallinity as a Temperature Indicator in the Orakei Korako Geothermal System, New Zealand Initial Insights into the Nature, Origin, Configuration, and Thermal-Chemical Evolution of the Aidlin Steam Reservoir, Northwest Geysers Steam Field, California p. 339 p. 345 Hydrothermal Mineralogy, Isotopy and Geochemistry in the Area of Cerro Prieto IV, Baja, California Norte, Mexico Evaluation of Hydrothermal Reservoir Temperatures by Means of Mineralogic-Geochemical Geothermometres p. 353 p. 357 Reservoir Geochemistry of the Karaha - Telaga Bodas Prospect, Indonesia p. 363 Characteristics of the Araro, Mich. (Mexico), Geothermal Zone p. 369 Geothermal Reservoir Delineation by Drillbit Seismic While Drilling p. 377 Rock Physics Interpretation of P-Wave Q and Velocity Structure, Geology, Fluids, and Fractures at the Southeast Portion of The Geysers Geothermal Reservoir Petrographic Controls on Electrical Properties of Core Samples from the Awibengkok Geothermal Field, Indonesia Sibayak Geothermal Field (Indonesia): Structure Assessed from Gravity and Hydrogeological Considerations p. 383 p. 391 p. 395 Geothermal Reservoir Study Through Petrophysical Data p. 401 A Model of the Subsurface Structure at the Ryepatch Geothermal Reservoir Based on Surface-to-Borehole Seismic Data Fault Kinematics in the Karaha-Telaga Bodas, Indonesia, Geothermal Field: An Interpretation Tool for Remote Sensing Data Stress Control of a Fractured Reservoir: Analysis of Electrical Images and Core from the Karaha-Telaga Bodas Geothermal System, Indonesia p. 405 p. 411 p. 417 Geophysical Features of the La Primavera, Jalisco, Mexico, Geothermal Field p. 423 Electrical Resistivity Structure and Its Changes at the Ogiri Geothermal Field, Japan p D Interpretation of Magnetotelluric Data at the Bajawa Geothermal Field, Indonesia p. 433 A Study on the Subsurface Thermal Structure Using a Stochastic Approach p. 439 Effects of Injection Temperature on Injection Capacity of Geothermal Wells - Numerical Study p. 445 Injection Returns in Well SK-2D Mindanao Geothermal Production Field, Philippines p. 455 Cost-Effective Use of GIS for Tracer Test Data Mapping and Visualization p. 461 Predicting Thermal Velocities in Fractured Media from Tracer Tests p. 465 Generation Gain in the Northern Geysers Due to Injection-Derived NCG Reduction p. 469 Recent Geochemical Tracing of Injection-Related Reservoir Processes in the NCPA Geysers Field p. 475 Calcite Antiscalant System Development at Kawerau, New Zealand p. 483 Developing a Process for Commercial Silica Production from Geothermal Brines p. 487 Management of Stibnite Deposition at Ngawha p. 493

4 Mineral Recovery: A Promising Geothermal Power Production Co-Product p. 497 Calcium Carbonate Inhibition System for Production Wells at the Miravalles Geothermal Field Evaluation of the Optimum Potential of RF Resin in the Concentration and Recovery of Cs from the Thermal Discharges of Puga Geothermal System, Ladakh, JandK India Reactive Chemical Transport Simulation to Study Geothermal Production with Mineral Recovery and Silica Scaling p. 501 p. 507 p. 513 The Los Azufres II (100 MW), Mexico, Geothermal Project p. 521 The Las Tres Virgenes Mexico Geothermal Reservoir p. 525 The Mokai Geothermal Power Plant, New Zealand: Analysis of Performance During First Year of Operation p. 535 Power Plants at the Mutnovsky Geothermal Field (Kamchatka) p. 543 The New Geothermal Law and Recent Geothermal Activities in Chile p. 549 The Olkaria III Geothermal Project: The First Private Geothermal Power Project in Kenya Commercial Geothermal, Anything Else? Grasping Every New Opportunity of Geothermal Development in China Evaluation of an Absorption Heat Pump to Mitigate Plant Capacity Reduction Due to Ambient Temperature Rise for an Air-Cooled Ammonia and Water Cycle p. 553 p. 557 p. 563 Exergoeconomic Optimization of a Wellhead Geothermal Power Plant p. 569 Development of Binary Cycle Power Generation on the NEDO Project p. 573 Small-Scale Geothermal Power Plant Field Verification Projects p. 577 The Olkaria II Geothermal Steamfield Control Strategy: Machines Talking in Circles p. 581 Continual Removal of Non-Condensable Gases for Binary Power Plant Condensers p. 585 Reclaimed Wattage: A New Idea for Geothermal Plant Cooling p. 589 Geothermal Production in Mexico in the Year 2000 p. 593 Characteristics of the Units for the Los Azufres II Project, Michoacan, Mexico p. 597 Power Recovery From Low Cost Two-Phase Expanders p. 601 Improving Air-Cooled Condenser Performance Using Winglets and Oval Tubes in a Geothermal Power Plant Tracer Test Design and Sensitivity Studies of the Cove Fort Geothermal Resource Tracer Test p. 607 p. 613 Temperature Distribution in Geothermal Wells Producing From Multilayered Aquifers p. 617 Curve Fitting Analysis of Steam Trends for Cerro Prieto Wells p. 621 New Tools for Reservoir Engineering in the Cerro Prieto Geothermal Field p. 625 Reservoir Monitoring at The Geysers with Repeated High-Precision Gravity and GPS p. 631 Characteristics and Projection Results of the Well LV-11, Las Tres Virgenes, Mexico p. 635 NEDO's Project on Development of Technology for Reservoir Mass and Heat Flow Characterization. (1) Project Outline and Techniques to Improve the Reservoir Model p. 641 Prediction of Magnetic Field Changes Induced by Geothermal Fluid Production and Reinjection p. 645 Experimental Study of Water Injection into Geothermal Reservoirs p. 651

5 Changes in Ground Surface Geophysical Signals Induced by Geothermal Exploitation - p. 657 Computational Studies Based on a Numerical Reservoir Model for the Oguni Geothermal Field, Japan Numerical Investigation of Sinusoidal Pressure Transient Test of Geothermal Wells p. 665 Gravity Monitoring of the Yanaizu-Nishiyama Geothermal Field, Japan p. 669 Current Conceptual Model of the Los Azufres, Mexico, Geothermal Field p. 675 Laboratory and Field Measurements of Electrical Resistivity to Determine Saturation and Detect Fractures in a Heated Rock Mass Geochemical Changes and Reservoir Processes Resulting from Mass Extraction in the Mindanao Geothermal Production Field, Philippines p. 681 p. 687 Database Development for Integrated Reservoir Modeling: SP and Geochemistry p. 693 Absolute Gravity Measurement for Geothermal Reservoir Monitoring p. 697 NEDO's Project on Development of Technology for Reservoir Mass and Heat Flow Characterization. (2) Geophysical Monitoring Techniques Reservoir Monitoring by Relative Self-Potential Observation at the Nigorikawa Basin, Hokkaido, Japan Self-Potential Monitoring and Its Interpretation Using Numerical Reservoir Simulation at the Ogiri Geothermal Field, Japan p. 701 p. 705 p. 711 Twenty-Six Years of Sustained Operations at the Onikobe Geothermal Power Plant, Japan p. 719 Geysers Reservoir Dry Out and Partial Resaturation Evidenced by Twenty-Five Years of Tracer Tests p. 725 Age and Cooling Rate of the Geothermal System of Larderello p. 731 About the Sustainable Development p. 737 An Expansion of the Krafla Power Plant from 30 to 60 MW[subscript e] Geothermal Considerations p. 741 Alphabetical List of Authors p. 747 Table of Contents provided by Blackwell's Book Services and R.R. Bowker. Used with permission.

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