Technical Agenda

Monday, 22 October, 0830-0930

Session 1: Introduction/Opening/Keynote Address

1000-1200

Session 2: Exploration

• Advances in geophysics data collection and interpretation
• Exploring for geothermal systems without surface expressions
• Remote Sensing
• Advances in geochemistry of thermal features
• Temperature gradient holes
• Detecting acid/volcanic/immature systems before drilling
• Regional or country exploration updates
• Structural geologic controls
• Regional geothermal characteristics
• Exploration case histories

1300-1500

Session 3: Drilling & Completions

• Drilling technology selection for geothermal applications
• MWD and LWD advances
• Well integrity – condition monitoring and predictive maintenance
• Zonal isolation techniques for geothermal wells
• High temperature submersible pumps
• Intelligent wells for geothermal
• Multilateral well technology for geothermal

1515-1645

Session 4: Reservoir Characterisation

• Work flows for characterising naturally fractured reservoirs
• Obtaining more information from pressure transient tests
• Acquiring and using drilling data to characterise the reservoir
• Fracture spacing, orientation and surface area estimates
• Structural and stratigraphic targets
• Evaluating success in targeting permeable zones

1645-1815

Session 5: Reservoir Forecasting

• Model development for geothermal reservoirs
• Improvements in history matching
• Integrated models linking reservoir, wellbores, surface facilities
• Incorporating rock mechanics in reservoir simulation models
• Advances in reservoir simulation technology
• Using simulation results to improve decision making

 

Tuesday, 23 October, 0830-1030

Session 6: Reservoir Surveillance

• Ideal surveillance program for different stages of field life
• Advances in cased-hole logging
• Quantitative analysis of tracer tests
• Application of fiber optics
• Geochemistry and down hole sampling

1045-1245

Session 7: Production Optimisation

• Well stimulation
• Hydraulic fracturing
• Chemical enhancement
• Scale removal

 

Wednesday, 24 October, 0830-1000

Session 8: Field Development Planning

• Pre-investing in facilities for future expansion
• Injection strategies
• Injection systems designed for flexibility throughout field life
• Does geothermal need a reserves classification system?

1015-1200

Session 9: Production and Generation Facilities

• Facilities design, construction, and installation
• Existing and ongoing projects – unique challenges and solutions
• Challenges with pipeline network modelling software
• Optimizing power plant operating conditions for reservoir changes
• Cost effective scale mitigation in wells and surface facilities
• The role of Pilot Projects in geothermal
• Extending field life
• Decommissioning
• Advances in Binary Power Plant Technology
• Advances in Air-Cooled Condensers

1300-1430

Session 10: Enhanced Geothermal Systems

• What is required now, what is required in the future?
• Subsurface fluid loss
• Induced seismicity (technical uses as well as impact on community)
• CO2-based EGS
• EGS case histories
• Multi-zone stimulation
• Models and fracture creation and propagation
• Chemical methods to optimize EGS
• Heat transfer
• EGS field configurations
• Economics of EGS

1430-1600

Session 11: Unconventional Resources

• Low-temperature resources
• Developing fields that produce corrosive fluids
• Handling super-critical fluids

1615-1745

Session 12: Manpower Development

• What are the skill sets that will be needed?
• Where are the shortages, where are the supplies (of people)?
• Breakout discussion

1745-1800

Session 13: Summary and Wrap-up