Abstract
A procedure to diagnose cases of production decrease in geothermal wells is presented. Most commonly, a production decrease in geothermal wells is due to: surface pipeline scaling, mechanical damage in the wellbore, entrance of cooler fluids to the producing reservoir layer and reservoir and well pipeline scaling. The procedure, which is presented as a decision diagram, is based in chemical and well production data. It is able to identify the above mentioned causes for a given well. This procedure was successfully applied to 17 wells from the Cerro Prieto geothermal field. In addition, a silica deposition rate parameter, Rd, was designed. It can be used as a forecasting tool for well scaling. It is proposed that this parameter is important in deriving suitable production strategies to minimise the effect of silica scaling processes in the reservoir.
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