THE EXPLOITATION OF WATERS OF GEOTHERMAL WELLS AND SPRINGS IN ALBANIA REPRESENT GREAT IMPORTANCE AND FRUITFUL INVESTMENT

Abstract

Two thermal wells and Ishmi-1/b, Kozani-8 and thermal springs of Llixha-Elbasani SPA in central region of Albania and of Kruja geothermal area have a self-discharge of hot and mineralized water (Fig. 1) (Frasheri A. et al. 1995, 1995, 1996).

Kruja geothermal area start on the Adriatic coast, Northern of Durresi city, in Ishmi region, continues in Tirana, in Elbasani up to South-Eastern Albanian- Greek border and extends to the Konica district in Greece.

Heat Flow Density in Albanian territory has its highest value of 42 mWm-2 in the center of the Peri-Adriatic Depression, in western part of country. Thirty mW.m-2 contours stay open towards the Adriatic Sea shelf, where the epicenter of the anomaly is situate with a Heat Flow Density up to 100 mWm-2, discovered by Italian geothermists (Geothermal Atlas of Europe). In the salt diapir of Dumrea, near of Elbasani in western direction, Heat Flow Density value is 37 mWm-2. The contours of Heat Flow Density with maximal values up to 60 mWm-2 give a clear configuration of ophiolitic belt in eastern regions of Albania