The Italian Geothermal Database

Abstract

The geothermal inventory ranks the Italian territory. The objective of the national database is to store information related to the location and characteristics of geothermal fluids in Italy. All the data gathered are stored in a computer database specifically set up for this purpose. The database includes wells that produce a geothermal fluid (hot water, steam or gas), geothermal or hydrocarbon exploratory wells, water wells above 30?C, unproductive wells, thermal springs and other manifestations. At the moment 2750 wells and about 570 thermal springs are included in the database with maps of temperature distribution at 1000, 2000, and 3000 m from ground level, and heat flow contours of all the Italian territory. The database is about 15 megabytes in size and is available on CD-ROMs for PCs under MS/DOS Windows 3.11 or Windows 95/98. The data management system used is the software Visual Basic with the Access engine, and can be hosted in any PC with at least 8 Mb of RAM.