Hydrothermal Survey

Purpose continued by the client:

Development and exploitation of a spa or a center of balneotherapy using a natural hot source.

Particular Conditions:

There do not exist particular conditions compared to the general terms.

The surface of the concession to be explored must be, at least, of a few km², according to the area where it is located.

The regional proximity of other spas can constitute a favorable indication, but is not essential.

Nature of the swift service:

To determine a priori that a geothermal reservoir can be used specifically for the purpose of hydrotherapy or of balneotherapy, we are based on a beam of presumptions rising primarily from empirical considerations.

We guarantee the stable character (in physicochemical terms of properties) and durable (in terms of flow) of thermal springs taken on the basis of our specification. “Thermal” name guarantees that it is indeed naturally hot water.

We provide following information on the optimal point of exploitation of a hydrothermal reservoir which we would have identified:

• precise positioning on site, except for the centimetre, of projection on the ground of the exurgence point identified,
• the precise GPS coordinates, possibly reproduced on a chart provided by the client, of this exurgence point,
• an estimate of drilling depth to 30 % closenecessary reaching this exurgence point,
  • this precision on the depth of collecting well is what we can reach of better in the actual position of the techniques put in work, but we work to improve this value,
  • this inaccuracy in the estimate depth requires a vertical drilling to reach with certainty the exurgence point (which is the only point “useful to know” of a hydrothermal reservoir).
• an estimate of the exploitable maximum capacity of the hydrothermal reservoir, with a margin of 30%.

Contrary to competition, exploratory drillings do not help us in the search for a locus of collecting well, but are used to prove the existence of this locus of collecting well (with respect to our clients) and to precisely measure what we can only estimate in the course of survey (the depth, the mass throughput, the temperature) or which we are straightforwardly unable to estimate in the actual position of the possibilities of the angiogeoscopy (like the chemical composition, the rate of suspended particles, the presence of non condensablees gas…).

The drilling locations which we specify are points of which we guarantee the productive character, therefore exploitable commercially, and optimal compared to hydrogeological criteria. In the contrary case (i.e. so of other drillings, that or those which we specified, is more productive), no fee is due.

Duration:

One indicative duration is of about a one week under the most favorable conditions.

Cost and conditions:

The cost of an angiogeoscopy is negotiated with the client. It depends exclusively on the volume extracted starting from the well from working which we specified. It is not due:

• that as from the moment when the spa or the center of balneotherapy is in commercial exploitation,
• that if no best locus of exploitation could be discovered on the site of the concession by our client or one of his subcontractors (apart from a radius of 50 meters around or drilling locations specified [S]).

Alternatively, and if a exploratory drilling already were carried out or is in progress, our fees could also be calculated proportionally for the marginal benefit carried out compared to the result got by concurrent explorations. The proportionality factor is obviously not the same one as in the preceding case.

Deliverable:

For each angiogeoscopy carried out, we deliver a data sheet taking again all the information collected within the framework of our service of hydrothermal survey (before exploratory drilling).

We make sign by our client each one of these data sheets for reception, because those have a contractual value. Our fees - or the absence of those - rise from the data which appear in it.

Invoicing:

Our fees are invoicees quarterly on the basis of volume taken during the quarter passed starting from or of the collecting locations which we specified. We thus invoice only after the beginning of the commercial exploitation of the spa or the center of balneotherapy (and in so far as all the conditions of garanteed result that we offer were met).

Reserves:

In Addition To the reserves issued for the geothermal survey which also apply to the hydrothermal survey, we can guarantee neither the existence, nor the nature of therapeutic virtues.