Thermal water prospecting results at Jelenia Góra-Cieplice (Sudetes, Poland) versus geothermometric forecasts

Abstract

 To provide additional volume of thermal water for balneotherapy and space heating the well Cieplice-1 has been deepened from 661 m to 2002.5 m. A spontaneous outflow of water with temperatures reaching 87.8  °C was obtained. Thermal logging revealed 97.7  °C at 1870 m. These results are consistent with earlier estimates based on various chemical geothermometers that indicated water temperatures in the lower parts of the geothermal system possibly exceeding 100  °C. This was also confirmed by the cationic composition geothermometer. The estimates based on the dependence of saturation indices on temperature did not prove correct, suggesting 65  °C as the most probable maximum temperature of the water.