GeoMap highlights geothermal in South America as one of the highest quality in the world
Project InnerSpace has launched GeoMap South America, putting focus on some of the highest geothermal potential regions in the world.
Project InnerSpace has announced the launch of GeoMap™ South America, an exploration platform that highlights the regions’ untapped geothermal potential, and shows that the continent has some of the highest heat flow zones in the world.
The latest release adds to the growing coverage of the GeoMap tool spanning across Africa, North America, India, the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania.
The exploration platform integrates millions of surface and subsurface data points into an interactive, freely accessible platform. GeoMap™ South America highlights where geothermal potential is strongest, including:
- Dozens of high-potential geothermal power production zones along the Andean volcanic belt with resources capable of generating tens of gigawatts of firm electricity, including Argentina (1200 GW), Peru (400 GW), Colombia (300 GW) and Chile (200 GW).
- Opportunities for industrial applications in mining and mineral processing, showing strong alignment between critical mineral deposits and high geothermal favorability, and offering opportunities to power mining operations with clean, local geothermal energy, particularly in northern Chile, southern Peru, and northwestern Argentina.
- Urban resilience solutions through district heating and cooling in major cities from Bogotá to Caracas and Santiago, improving quality of life and energy security.
- Brazil’s geothermal resource of over 2000 GW holds exceptional potential for power, energy storage, cooling, and industrial heat. Areas in the northeast part are ideal for renewables-integrated subsurface energy storage systems. The Amazonas Basin could support cooling, and the Paraná Basin may offer synergies with local energy needs. Brazil also has potential for geothermal Industrial heat and power generation in select locations.
Petrobras, South America’s largest energy company, accelerated integration of onshore well-temperature data into GeoMap through a partnership with Project InnerSpace that provided data structured from its internal databases, drastically reducing the time required to incorporate the information into GeoMap™.
“The oil and gas industry holds the key to unlocking the speed, scale, and technological advancement that will raise geothermal out of obscurity and into the mainstream,” said Jamie Beard, Executive Director of Project InnerSpace. “It is our hope that in regions of the world with strong oil and gas industry expertise and presence, like South America, that GeoMap will drive sustained interest in this untapped and abundant energy source. We are excited by the knowledge that Petrobras contributed to supercharge GeoMap through this partnership.”
“GeoMap™ South America significantly expands our capacity to evaluate new geothermal opportunities, particularly in regions with limited or proprietary data. We look forward to leaning into GeoMap as we build our geothermal exploration strategy, and as we strengthen our technological standing and leadership in developing this massive, sustainable, and local resource,” said Anna Eliza Svartman, Basin Modeling Manager from Petrobras.
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