Legacy BGS geothermal models: theoretical potential 'heat-in-place' for the early Carboniferous limestone (hot sedimentary aquifer resources) in northern and southern England
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- Date (Publication)
- 2023
0115 936 3276
0115 936 3276
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- UK Location (INSPIRE)
- Aquifers
- Geothermal maps
- Geothermal energy
- Limestone
- Carboniferous
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- NERC_DDC
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- grid Grid
- Distance
- 2500 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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NORTHERN ENGLAND [id=151000]
- Date (Creation)
- 1979
- Geographic identifier
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SOUTHERN ENGLAND [id=158800]
- Date (Creation)
- 1979
- Begin date
- 2022
- End date
- 2025
- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)
- Distribution format
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0115 936 3276
- OnLine resource
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UK Geothermal Platform Web Map
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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An interactive Web map for exploring geothermal energy potential, assessing constraints, and making informed exploration decisions.
- OnLine resource
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UK Geothermal Platform
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
An online platform for exploring geothermal energy potential, assessing constraints, and making informed exploration decisions.
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Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2011
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
- See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
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- No
- Statement
- The study was conducted to assess the theoretical potential of the geothermal resource from the early Carboniferous limestone (ECL) in Great Britain. The theoretical potential 'heat-in-place' was calculated using the 3DHIP tool (Piris et al., 2021), which is based on the USGS volumetric 'heat-in-place' method developed by Muffler and Cataldi (1978). The method uses a Monte Carlo simulation to calculate the P50 probability distribution function for the HIP using the P50 distribution of reservoir volume and rock density derived from the 3D geological models of the ECL lithofacies for each study area, gridded at an XYZ spatial resolution of 2500 x 2500 x 50 m, and the temperature distribution. The model assumes a triangular porosity distribution, a constant fluid density (1040 kg / m3), fluid specific heat capacity (3.8 kJ/kg°C), and rock specific heat capacity (0.86 kJ/kg°C) and a reference/reinjection temperature of 21 °C. Geothermal gradient and mean surface temperature were defined as constants for each model. An upper depth cut-off of 1000 m and 1200 m was applied to northern and southern models respectively, which corresponds to a reservoir temperature of 50 °C and is judged to be the minimum temperature required for direct-use applications of geothermal energy. The heat-in-place is highly sensitive to the thickness, which is influenced by the depth to the top (well constrained by seismic interpretation and well picks) and base (less/no well coverage and poor constrained in some areas) of the base Carboniferous.
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- EnglishEnglish
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- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
- Dataset URI
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608361
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