RE:RE:Could this be another flushing....Interesting read...
https://www.geothermal-energy.org/pdf/IGAstandard/WGC/2000/R0811.PDF
Well, my hypothesis about injected water needing time to heat is total BS.
Once drilled, wells need heat, permeability and fractures along with reservoir. Preferably, they will develop a natural convection of hot water or steam from reservoir and surrounding material of well into and through well pipes. Yes, water is returned to reservoir but not really near the production well.. but just somewhere nearby that will eventually drain back into the reservoir. Seems like it may take a long time.. years for water to actually make full cycle. Just don't want reservoir to continually decline in water level.
So, I am still at a loss as to why it has taken so long to "heat up" but we have to be getting close as either heat, permeability and reservoir is there or not.
Not sure if company would open well slowly to try to get convection going, or if they would open to pond for a period of time, then production flow or if they would slowly or intermittently introduce 9-3 to production stream. Or if there is a process of "frac" ing done after well is drilled to get more fractures and thus more flow out of well. More questions than answers, but at least I am convinced that my theory is not likely.