Boosting Green Energy and Resources Efficiency

through Trans-nationally Concerted Geo-potential

Assessment – the Project GeoMol

Dr. Gerold Diepolder

Bavarian Environment Agency (LfU)

GeoMol coordination and lead

&

the GeoMol Team:

Outline

� Introduction and Background

� Technical Implementation and User’s Needs

Data preparation, 3D modelling and geo-potential assessment

� Products and the Distribution Channels

What are the users’ needs and how to provide it ?

The project GeoMol integrates partners from Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and

Switzerland and runs from September 2012 to June 2015. The project is funded by the Alpine

Space Programme www.alpine-space.eu as part of the European Territorial Cooperation

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What are Geo-potentials ?

Geo-potential is the capability of the Earth as related to the human use.

geogenic Geo-potential anthropogenic

Geo-potentialusable Geo-potential Geohazard

Earth‘s surface Volcanism Landfill

Soil Earthquakes / Seismicity Caverns

Building ground Mass movement (Landslides) Contamination etc.

Ground water Flooding

Geothermal energy Salinization

Mineral deposits Sand & soil drift

Oil and gas

Storage formations

Karst as a storage Karstification (Sinkholes)

(from Manhenke 1999, modified)

GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder Introduction and Background: Definitions

What are Geo-potentials ?

GeoMol considers only deep geo-potentials.

geogenic Geo-potential anthropogenic

Geo-potentialusable Geo-potential Geohazard

Earth‘s surface Volcanism Landfill

Soil Earthquakes / Seismicity Caverns

Building ground Mass movement (Landslides) Contamination etc.

Ground water Flooding

Geothermal energy Salinization

Mineral deposits Sand & soil drift

Oil and gas

Storage formations

Karst as a storage Karstification (Sinkholes)

(from Manhenke 1999, modified)

Introduction and Background: Definitions GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder

What are Alpine Foreland Basins ?

Introduction and Background: Definitions GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder

Oil and gas deposits:

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Temperature

distribution in the

Upper Jurassic aquifer

of the Bavarian Molasse

Basin (from Pamer &

Diepolder 2010)

Alpine Foreland Basins – a bonanza for geothermal energy ??

District heating

Electrical power generation

Thermal spa

… with secondary use

Munich

Salzburg

50 km

Geothermal installations in the eastern Bavarian Molasse Basin

(after www.geotis.de as of April 2014, from Diepolder et al. 2015 [in press])

North-South geological cross-section of the

Bavarian Molasse Basin east of Munich

(after Lemcke 1988, from Diepolder & Schulz 2010)

GT Geretsried Nord

ET > 4.900 m TVD

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Alpine Foreland Basins – space of many geo-potentials

Gas storage Breitbrunn-Eggstätt , © LBEG

Oil field Hebertshausen

e.g. oil and gas, and after-use for underground storage

GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder Introduction and Background: Geo-potentials

Alpine Foreland Basins – space of many geo-potentials

Factors defining geo-potentials

or: why geology is most important

� rock properties (lithology)

� rock permeability (e.g. reservoir rock vs. barrier rock)

� structure (fractures and faults, structural traps)

� temperature at depth

GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder Introduction and Background: Geo-potentials

Alpine Foreland Basins – space of competing demands

GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder Introduction and Background: Competing Demands

Courtesy of P. di Manna, ISPRA

May 2012 Po Basin earthquake

Earthquakes < Mw 3.5 in the years 1900–2006 as related to the Alpine Foreland Basins,

(after Grünthal & Wahlström (2012): The European-Mediterranean Earthquake Catalogue

(EMEC) for the last millennium).

Courtesy of Pio di Manna, ISPRA

Alpine Foreland Basins – space comprising areas at risk

GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder Introduction and Background: No-go areas

Alpine Foreland Basins call for subsurface land use planning

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From unlimited depth licensing

“from soil to hell” to

vertically zoned licensing

� allowing multipurpose use

thus boosting green energy

� improved claim manage-

ment ensuring resources

efficiency

prerequisite:

holistic 3-dimensional

subsurface information

Dwindling societal acceptance for subsurface uses

���� Addressing public concerns

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GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder Introduction and Background: Addressing Public Concerns

Courtesy of P. di Manna, ISPRA

Geothermal energy

Seismic

risk Storage of gas &

compressed air

Oil & gas

Groundwater

Competing

demands

& public

concerns

Principal targets

of GeoMol:

GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder Introduction and Background: Summary

� Geology and the resources and risks connected with it do

not respect political boundaries � transnational

� Geology is inherently a three-dimensional issue � in 3D

� Geology must be made understandable for non-geologists

� for the users‘ needs

Basic requirements for assessing deep geo-potentials

GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder Technical Implementation: Basic Requirements

The GeoMol project area: working trans-nationally

GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder Technical Implementation: Transnational Approach

Member states of the GeoMol Consortium

GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder Technical Implementation: Transnational Approach

� overcome language obstacles, proprietary nomenclatures and boundaries

� semantic harmonization

� harmonize data and jointly define consistent methods (best practice)

� systematic harmonization // customised to the partners

� ensure trans-border fit

� geometric / topologic harmonization

� tackle differences in technical implementations and platforms

� technical harmonization interoperability

� balance the different data policy in the partner states

� initiating legal harmonisation beyond EU directives

Working trans-nationally requires concerted action & close

collaboration in harmonization from the very beginning

GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder Technical Implementation: Basic Requirements

Merger of existing 3D geological models by just filling the

gaps in between is not feasible !!

GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder Technical Implementation: Basic Requirements

Seismc Sections

Borehole data

(Lithology / Geophysics)

3D seismic & borehole evidence

Processing of the base data

following trans-nationally concerted methods and criteria

Working trans-nationally: harmonization from the very beginning

���� return to the primary data

GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder Technical Implementation: Basic Requirements

> 300 – 500 m

> 500 – 1000 m

> 1000 – 1500 m

> 1500 – 2000 m

> 2000 – 2500 m

> 2500 - 3000

> 3000 m

Well Depth

Modelling the space in

between hard data requires a

sound geological expertise:

� Geological Survey

Organizations

Borehole data at great depth: scattered and clustered

?

?

??

GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder Technical Implementation: Heterogeneous Distribution of Base Data

Primary data available: summing up the national data policy

GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder Technical Implementation: Heterogeneous Distribution of Base Data

Primary data are mostly classified data from oil & gas or geothermal industries

which can be exploited by the legally mandated authorities only and may be

provided as generalized and anonymized syntheses.

From primary data to spatial information

GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder Technical Implementation: Combing Seismic and Borehole Data

~ 2,000 km2

5,400 m

3D model(s) of layers and the fault network:

From primary data to spatial information

GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder Technical Implementation: Resulting Spatial Information

� Planning and licensing authorities

� Decision makers

� Geoscientific academia

� Consultants, planner, project developer- deep geothermal energy

- underground storage / deep repositories

- groundwater management

- primary industries / economic geology

- infrastructural measures

� Insurance underwriters

� Geological Survey Organizations

� NGOs & the general public

Users of GeoMol’s results according to the stakeholder survey

GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder Products and Distribution Channels: Who needs it?

� Digital map sets (GIS) of geometries & parameters

� Ready to use 3D models (populated, incl. temperature model)

� Meta data catalogue (Incl. availability & restrictions)

� Guidelines and Best Practice Manuals for the sustainable planning and

management of geo-potentials & hard facts for the citizens dialogue

Three channels of dissemination will be provided

� A map viewer and meta data catalogue (WMS) providing 3D derived

2D information

� A geo data infrastructure to ensure full interoperability among all

entitled users/stakeholders and the data providers

� An interactive 3D viewer linked to www.geomol.eu providing easy

access to the declassified GeoMol products for the general public

“What do users need?” as revealed by the stakeholder survey

GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder Products and Distribution Channels: What’s needed?

Distributed organized data storage & data merger/visualization via WWW

Transnational harmonization vs. national data policy

GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder Products and Distribution Channels: GeoMol’s Web-based 3D Explorer

Role based access to 3D data via WWW

Map viewer and meta data

catalogue (WMS) providing 3D

derived 2D information

GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder Products and Distribution Channels: GeoMol Data Portals

GeoMol data portals

based on “GST” developments

Thank you for your attention

Find more on www.geomol.eu

GrandRE2014 – 30/07/2014 O-GE-1-4 - © LfU Bavaria, Dr. Gerold Diepolder