Research Article

Determination of Hydraulic Properties of a Large Self-Propped Hydraulic Fracture in the Geothermal Research Borehole Horstberg Z1 in the Northwest German Basin

Figure 1

Unscaled scheme of the fracture and the well-completion at the HDR/EGS – test site GeneSys-Horstberg. Dashed rectangle: simplified fracture geometry for the 1D-model, 2xf: fracture length, hf: fracture height, ds: horizontal distance between borehole and fracture in the Solling.