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Austria-based integrated oil, gas, and chemicals company OMV is set to start the production testing of a 50-year-old natural gas well to assess its viability for geothermal energy production. Well Aderklaa-96, located between Aderklaa and Deutsch-Wagram, has been drilled to a depth of around 2900 meters and will test the geothermal potential of the basement of the Vienna Basin.
The aim of the production test is to determine important reservoir parameters and to obtain samples of the formation water in order to decide whether this formation is suitable for producing geothermal energy. Information from the test will then be used to evaluate the viability of making geothermal energy available for district heating. If everything goes as planned, it is estimated that hot water could flow in about four years at the earliest.
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