Towards a de-carbonized energy system in north-eastern Morocco: Prospective geothermal resource

Abdelkrim Rimi, Yassine Zarhloule, Alae Eddine Barkaoui, Antonio Correia, Julio Carneiro, Massimo Verdoya and Francis Lucazeau

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2012, vol. 16, issue 4, 2207-2216

Abstract: Geothermal data has been indicating promising potentialities in the north-eastern Morocco. This paper presents new temperature data, recently recorded in water boreholes located in the Berkane and Oujda areas. Generally, the observed temperature gradients are rather high. One hole near Berkane, revealed an average geothermal gradient of more than 110°C/km at depths greater than 300m. This result confirms the geothermal gradient estimated in a mining borehole located about 30km west of the Berkane borehole, in which water temperature of 96°C is reached at a depth of about 700m. Such a high geothermal gradient, exceeding by far the ones already determined for northeastern Morocco, could act as a stimulus to programs aimed at the geothermal exploitation of high temperature aquifers.

Keywords: Geothermal gradient; Heat flow; Thermal spring; Geothermometer; Geothermal potential; Morocco (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2011.12.008

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