Date (Publication)

1995

Citation identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608380

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency

Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Permian

• Heat recovery

• Aquifers

• Geothermal energy

• Geothermal maps

• UK Location (INSPIRE)

• Sandstone reservoirs

dataCentre

• UK Location (INSPIRE)

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

no limitations

Other constraints

The dataset is made freely available for access, e.g. via the Internet. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner(s) of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely accessible.

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other constraints

Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Other constraints

The dataset is made available to external clients under BGS Digital Data Licence terms and conditions. Revert to the IPR Section ( iprdigital@bgs.ac.uk) if further advice is required with regard to permitted usage.

Spatial representation type

Grid

Distance

100  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Language

English

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

Cheshire Basin [id=1000427]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geological gazetteer 2005 creation

Geographic identifier

Worcestershire County [id=2993]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: OS Boundary Line 2009 revision

Begin date

1978

End date

2025

Unique resource identifier

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)

Distribution format

Name	Version

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://ukgtp.bgs.ac.uk	UK Geothermal Platform Web Map

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://ukgeothermalplatform.org	UK Geothermal Platform

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

These theoretical potential 'identified resource' maps were developed as part of a reappraisal of the low enthalpy geothermal resources for the Mezosoic basins of England by Rollin et al. (1995). The 'identified resources' were calculated for the Permian formations in the Cheshire Basin (Collyhurst Sandstone Formation) and Worcester Basin (Bridgnorth Sandstone Formation). They are defined as a function of the 'heat-in-place', the hydraulic properties of the aquifer, the method of abstraction or recovery factor (F = 0.33) and the reject temperature of the disposal fluid (Tj = 25°C). As part of the 2025 UK Geothermal Platform project, the maps for each basin were merged into a single layer. For consistency with other legacy estimations, the theoretical potential 'recoverable heat' (MW/km2) was calculated from the 'identified resources' layer using a conversion factor of 0.287, accounting for a recovery factor of 0.1, a plant factor of 0.95, a conversion efficiency factor of 0.85 and a plant operational lifetime of 30 years, for equivalence to the 3DHIP method used in the more recent BGS geothermal resource assessment studies (Jones et al., 2023; Kearsey et al., 2024).

Metadata

File identifier

2fac35fe-8c60-0a6d-e063-0937940ab71c XML

Metadata language

English

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2025-05-21

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey		enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact

Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608380