The SCAN research programme 2D seismic survey has acquired more than 800 km of data to investigate potential geothermal energy sites in the Netherlands.
The SCAN research programme 2D seismic survey has acquired more than 800 km of data to investigate potential geothermal energy sites in the Netherlands.
Project partners EBN and TNO have overseen 2D seismic acquisition and reprocessing of existing 2D vintage data. The next phase of the government-funded project is to drill multiple research wells to further de-risk the subsurface.
‘Limited knowledge of the subsurface is often an inhibiting factor for potential geothermal projects. That is why SCAN takes this important first step by acquiring high quality data to help accelerate the application of geothermal energy and make it part of the sustainable energy mix in the Netherlands,’ said a SCAN project statement. ‘All data and results are shared publicly and are available for interpretation by experts and for educational, research, and training applications.’
The first five lines of the newly acquired SCAN 2D seismic data acquired by the contractor Rossingh Geophysics are now available via nlog.nl/en/scan-2d-seismic-data. Seismic processing company DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG) has been contracted for the processing of the first 1000 km of 2D seismic data. ‘The new data is of high quality and show the existence of potentially interesting geothermal reservoirs,’ said the SCAN project team.
Specialists are recovering and reprocessing existing vintage data, mainly recorded in the 1980s, from different operator archives and applying modern processing techniques and computing power to improve the seismic imaging. Currently well over a thousand kilometres of 2D reprocessed data have been made available through the NLog platform.
SCAN intends to drill multiple wells to provide more information about properties such as permeability and the overall quality of the reservoirs.
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