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The Po Valley, Italy’s largest sedimentary basin is, geothermally speaking, rather cold. Nevertheless, several wells drilled by AGIP for petroleum exploration evidenced areas in which there exist conditions favourable for carrying out space heating projects. In one of these areas, south of Milano., AGIP and SNAM are carrying out the “Metanopoli” home heating pilot project. It was expected to reach an aquifer at a 2000 m depth containing water at a 65 °C temperature and 100 m3/h flow rate.
The drilled well confirmed the existence of such aquifer (1967 m- 2114 m) with a 75°C temperature but raised new problems. The presence of natural gas dissolved in water a salt content as high as 88.8 g/1 and the aquifer being less thick than expected, require to solve such new problems before drilling the second well.
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Sommaruga, C., Ghelardoni, R. (1980). Demonstration Project Couple of Wells for Geothermal Space Heating in Metanopoli, Milano. In: Strub, A.S., Ungemach, P. (eds) Advances in European Geothermal Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9059-3_24
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