Drilling rig on the Veliko Koronevo website in Bjelovar, Croatia (supply: Metropolis of Bjelovar official web site)
Effectively testing has been accomplished on the Koronevo GT-1 geothermal properly in Bjelovar, Croatia, to date with encouraging flowrate and temperature outcomes.
Outcomes have been optimistic to date on the testing of the primary geothermal properly drilled within the Veliko Korenovo space, a suburb of Bjelovar, Croatia. Drilled to a depth of 1260 meters, the properly is discharging fluids at 83 °C at a flowrate of 30 L/s. Chemical parameters are inside regular ranges, though the outcomes of extra detailed evaluation is not going to be obtainable for 2 or three extra weeks.
Drilling of properly Koronevo GT-1 began in November and was accomplished in keeping with schedule. The EUR 3.5-million drilling contract was awarded to Crosco. The geothermal heating plant in Bjelovar is envisioned to be the primary geothermal district heating venture in Croatia
The present initiative to develop geothermal district heating was first reported in early 2022. An replace was offered by the top of 2022, indicating that feasibility research had been underway for the deliberate district heating venture.
Investments are anticipated
The properly is situated in the course of a brand new enterprise zone subsequent to an expressway that’s at the moment being constructed. About 6 MW of thermal power is anticipated from the properly, which will likely be sufficient to provide “warmth to seven hectares of greenhouses or greater than 400 flats,” as described by Mladen, Skrlec, Supervisor of the execution of oil and mining works.
Bjelavor Mayor Dario Hrebak, emphasised that the optimistic drilling final result is anticipated to attract new investments into the area. “The expressway is being constructed, which enters the center of this 83-hectare zone the place this properly is situated and the place land is at reasonably priced costs. That is town with the bottom taxes within the nation, due to this fact, with the bottom utility prices within the nation . I consider that this could actually be an oasis, and I count on a tsunami of investments right here within the metropolis of Bjelovar.”
“The Bjelovar-Bilogoroa area was crucial for agriculture. Sadly, this trade has declined within the final. I count on a bunch of greenhouses right here and a whole lot of those that need to produce aggressive merchandise underneath favorable circumstances and promote them in the marketplace,” added the Mayor.
The Mayor additionally mentioned that 5 extra boreholes are being deliberate. “As of tomorrow, we’re already planning to get a allow for exploitation within the subsequent eight to 10 months, so we will already begin concrete manufacturing. We aren’t inquisitive about tales, we’re right here ship instantly what might be completed.”
Extra geothermal utilization in Bjelovar
The Croatian Company for Hydrocarbons estimates that half of town of Bjelovar might be heated with geothermal. “The temperature gradient on this a part of Croatia may be very massive in comparison with comparable nations within the European Union, so the potential is nice,” commented Drazen Jaksic, Director of the Power Institute.
Bjelovar was included in the record of web sites for tender for geothermal growth in a current announcement by the Croatian Hydrocarbon Company.
Specialists level out that there must be a rise in funding for Croatia to achieve the identical stage of geothermal utilization as neighboring nations, like Hungary. “Within the subsequent 10 years, I count on investments in Croatia to be round 400 million euros, ” mentioned Darko Tipurci of the Croatian Society of Economists.
