Staff profiles
James PattersonGeothermal Reservoir Modeller
Qualifications
- PhD, Earth Science
- BSc, Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering
- MSc, Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering
Areas of expertise
- Business Development: Geothermal
- Business Development: Geothermal resource assessment
- Business Development: Machine Learning
- Business Development: Numerical Modelling
- Business Development: Project management
Major Publications
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- The effect of CO2 reinjection on silica scaling in geothermal reservoirs, Proceedings 45th New Zealand Geothermal Workshop, 15-17 November 2023, Auckland, New Zealand : 7 p.. 7 p.
- Changes in geothermal reservoirs due to hydrothermal eruptions and fault reactivation, Proceedings 45th New Zealand Geothermal Workshop, 15-17 November 2023, Auckland, New Zealand : 8 p.. 8 p.
- Elastic and thermoelastic effects on thermal water convection in fracture zones, Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 126(2): article e2020JB020940. DOI: 10.1029/2020JB020940. article e2020JB020940
- The effect of thermo-elastic stress re-distribution on geothermal production from a vertical fracture zone, Geothermics 85: article 101745. DOI: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2019.101745. article 101745
- Heat and fluid transport induced by convective fluid circulation within a fracture or fault, Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 123(4): p. 2658-2673. DOI: 10.1002/2017JB015363. p. 2658-2673
- Self-organizing fluid convection patterns in an en echelon fault array, Geophysical Research Letters 45(10): p. 4799-4808. DOI: 10.1029/2018GL078271. p. 4799-4808
- The use of a pH-Triggered polymer gelant to seal cement fractures in wells, SPE Drilling & Completion 31(03): p. 225-235. DOI: 10.2118/174940-PA. p. 225-235