{"id":1547,"date":"2024-02-27T14:34:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T11:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/?post_type=glossary&#038;p=1547"},"modified":"2024-02-27T14:34:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T11:34:46","slug":"geothermal-wells-stimulation","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/glossary\/geothermal-wells-stimulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Geothermal wells stimulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stimulation of geothermal wells is applying permeability stimulation\/enhancement techniques toward solving the problem of limited well productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stimulation&rsquo;s primary objective is to remedy and\/or improve the connection of the wellbore with the natural fractures or faults in the geothermal reservoir, to improve permeability and therefore well productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the geothermal industry the predominant well stimulation techniques in use or under consideration are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Acid injection, also known as &lsquo;acidising&rsquo;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hydraulic fracturing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deflagrationeflagration<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thermal fractur&#65279;ing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stimulation of geothermal wells is applying permeability stimulation\/enhancement techniques toward solving the problem of limited well productivity. Stimulation&rsquo;s primary objective is to remedy and\/or improve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1547","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/1547\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}