Method for determining the heat in place for a geothermal system with horizontal wells

At least one non-transitory machine-readable medium including instructions, which when executed by processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to perform operations including:

• generating a 3D geologic model and a 3D temperature model of a horizontal well;
• receiving an indication of an orientation of a stress field in the horizontal well;
• drilling the horizontal well using the 3D geologic model, the 3D temperature model, and the indication of the orientation of the stress field, wherein drilling the horizontal well includes optimizing between maintaining laterals normal to a maximum horizontal stress using the indication of the orientation of the stress field and maintaining consistent temperature along the laterals using the 3D temperature model;
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• iteratively updating the 3D geologic model and the 3D temperature model of the horizontal well based on in-well data.

A method comprising:

• receiving a 3D geologic model and a 3D temperature model of a horizontal well;
• receiving an indication of an orientation of a stress field in the horizontal well;
• identifying a drill plan for the horizontal well using the 3D geologic model, the 3D temperature model, and the indication of the orientation of the stress field;
• iteratively updating the 3D geologic model and the 3D temperature model of the horizontal well based on simulation data using the drill plan, and
• drilling the horizontal well using an updated drill plan based on the iteratively updated 3D geologic model and the iteratively updated 3D temperature model, wherein drilling the horizontal well includes optimizing between maintaining laterals normal to a maximum horizontal stress using the indication of the orientation of the stress field and maintaining consistent temperature along the laterals using by the iteratively updated 3D temperature model.