Discussion between a reservoir engineer and a geologist: permeability identification from completion test data and borehole image logs integration

This study is part of a contribution from GNS Science’s Geothermal Resources of New Zealand and New Zealand Geothermal Future research programmes, funding of which was provided by the Government of New Zealand. We thank Contact Energy Ltd for the provision and permission to publish well data. The authors acknowledge support of this work by Haliburton Software and Services, a Haliburton Company, through the use of RecallTM Borehole software.

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