Database of Mexican Medium- to Low-Temperature Geothermal Resources.

Abstract

Mexico is blessed with abundant geothermal resources. The high-temperature resources have been extensively explored and a significant number have been under commercial exploitation for more than 30 years. However, a few years ago there was still little knowledge about the potential of the country's medium- to low-temperature geothermal resources, despite ample evidence that they are widespread in Mexico. Motivated by this, we started a project to estimate Mexico's medium- to low-temperature (<200?C) geothermal reserves. In the context of this project we collected and interpreted relevant data and developed an appropriate relational database, in preparation to estimating the reserves. In this work we describe our data collection and processing results, and the database we developed.
This tool proved very useful for our reserve assessment project. So far, it has allowed us to achieve a partial assessment of the medium- to low-temperature Mexican geothermal reserves, as well as preliminary assessments of the geothermal reserves of several individual Mexican States. It was also used as a main component of a Geographical Information System deve