The Faroe Islands are a volcanic archipelago in the Nordeast Atlantic Ocean, located in the triangular area between Iceland, Scotland, and Norway.
Fifteen years ago, the government of the Faroe Islands introduced shallow geothermal heat pump systems for heating of private houses around the islands as a greener energy solution instead of oil burners.
The drilling of these shallow geothermal energy systems gave The Faroese Geological Survey (Jarðfeingi) the opportunity to access large amount of information regarding the subsurface. Information that had not been accessible before. The information has been and still is being collected by measuring the depth of the groundwater table, the temperature, and conductivity of the groundwater at five-meter intervals downhole...