The agreement between the Polish Ministry of Climate and Environment and the Institute of Mineral Resources and Energy Management of the Polish Academy of Sciences was signed on 16 December 2022. The project is financed by the Bilateral Cooperation Fund of the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 under the Environment, Energy and Climate Change Programme.

About the project

Among the objectives of the project, there are:

• improving the management of geothermal resources exploited in low-temperature reservoirs in Poland and Iceland, and more broadly - also in other countries. The project concerns classical geothermal systems of medium and high depth, where the geothermal fluid is present in the pore or crevice-pore medium as a liquid. However, it does not include very shallow geothermal energy, such as the exploitation of ground-based heat exchangers;
• improving the management of low-temperature geothermal resources by facilitating access to appropriate bed modelling tools and promoting the benefits of regular and meticulous resource monitoring;
• the reduction of barriers to access to computer programmes for modelling geothermal reservoirs should contribute to this.

The project will develop tools that, among others, will support the calibration of numerical models, will enable the modeling of heat transport and water flow in highly saline reservoirs (such as those found in Niż Polski), and will be helpful in the calculation of parameters on the boreheads, as well as will support the decision-making process regarding the optimal location of future drilling operations.

Partnership

The project “Optimal management of low-temperature geothermal reservoirs – Polish-Icelandic cooperation in the field of modelling deposits” will be implemented in cooperation with the Icelandic partner Iceland Geosurvey (ISOR). Bilateral character will be marked by active cooperation on the creation of new solutions in the area of numerical modelling of geothermal systems, which, despite significant differences in the geological structure of Poland and Iceland, are described using the same physical processes. Cooperation between the two units will be based on exchange of experience, joint study visits, publications and reports. The developed tools will be tested on data from selected geothermal fields in Poland and Iceland.

More about the project

More information about the project “GeoModel Optimal management of low-temperature geothermal reservoirs – Polish-Icelandic cooperation in the field of modelling deposits” can be found on its website www.geomodel.pl.