Agenda
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Wednesday, December 01
This session is designed to educate the oil and gas community about the different technologies for geothermal energy exploitation for different play types (conventional, both in sedimentary and volcanic areas, EGS and AGS), the historical power and heat deployment (regional and global) and the employment picture across the industry).
This session will cover the various types of geothermal systems, how to identify and chracterise them, and how to exploit them. This will include conventional and unconventional geothermal technologies and engineering solutions, open-loop and closed-loop solutions, and hybrid energy development opportunities.
The objective of this session is to accelerate the learning curve by identifying opportunities for improvement in the actual well planning and construction strategies, aiming to optimize operations and production efficiency and reduce overall costs and risks of geothermal projects.
Main challenges:-
- drilling in hard granite and crystalline formation
- technical challenges and economics
- technologies capable of optimising geothermal operations
- drilling, completions and interventions
- well design impacts on productivity management and projects' risk analysis
- thief zones, cold fluid breakthrough etc
- zonal isolation solutions for geothermal high-temperature application
- cementing, packers and material selection
- well integrity and abandonment challenges from geothermal perspectives
- 50+ years of life, temperature, fluids, regulations
- repurpose, revive and relining solutions of wells for geothermal projects (transversal topic)
- cases and new drilling and completion technologies
Thursday, December 02
This session will focus on current challenges and best practices across the industries to tackle the most prominent non-technical blockers impacting the geothermal industry. Main challenges: Re-injectivity (Seismicity); Diffusion of non-condensable gases (CO2, H2S); Technical challenges and economics; Public perception (fracking, seismicity); Financing and insuring geothermal projects;
Establishing industry best practices and standards; Regulatory regimes for geothermal (well design and operations); Social Responsibility Policies (responsibility for the social, economic and environmental impact).
Discussion on how O&G tools can be applied or adapted to geothermal. Topics include:
1. Reservoir characterization
2. Formation evaluation and petrophysics
3. Well construction and integrity (EGS, AGS/Closed Loop, Supercritical, Multi-Laterals)
4. Link between subsurface and surface facilities/interfaces/infrastructure
5. Co-production/co-injection: lithium, H2, CO2
6. Novel materials, sensors and measurement techniques
7. Digitalization and automation: machine learning, AI, digital twinning, rig automation, data-driven vs. physics-based modeling
Followed by roundtable discussion
Friday, December 03
This session will look at key production challenges in geothermal resources in comparison to traditional oil and gas developments, identify transforming production technologies from O&G that may benefit geothermal, and highlight examples from across geothermal systems.
This session will look at key production challenges in geothermal resources in comparison to traditional oil and gas developments, identify transforming production technologies from O&G that may benefit geothermal, and highlight examples from across geothermal systems.