NZ Geothermal Workshop 2009

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A preliminary programme is now available.

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Programme

This year the Workshop will be held at the Rotorua Convention Centre in Rotorua, New Zealand at 1170 Fenton Street, Rotorua.

Rotorua Convention Centre

Preliminary Programme

The following programme is tentative and may change as we get closer to the Workshop.

Time	Sunday 15 November	Monday 16 November
07.30		Registration opens
08.00
08.30
08.40		Welcome Associate Professor Paul Hoskin
08.50		Welcome Mayor of Rotorua
09.00		Welcome Te Arawa
		GEOTHERMAL and the MARKETPLACE 1
09.20		Keynote Speaker: Jim Lawless - SKM NEW ZEALAND FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN GEOTHERMAL - SHOULD NEW ZEALAND LEAD OR FOLLOW ?
09.50		Universities in the Marketplace: Professor Michael Davies, Dean of Engineering, The University of Auckland
10.00		Morning Tea
10.30		Invited Speaker: Doug Heffernan - CEO, Mighty River Power Ltd.
10.50		Invited Speaker: Anthony Budd Current Activity in Australia
11.10		Paul Quinlivan NZGA COST OF GEOTHERMAL STUDY. FINAL RESULTS 2009
11.30		Basil Sharp Geothermal Energy Development
11.50		Invited: David Baldwin - CEO and Managing Director, Contact Energy Ltd. MAXIMISING THE BENEFITS OF GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
12.10		Lunch
12.30
12.50
13.10	Exhibitor Set Up	COUNTRY UPDATES INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND
13.10		Claude Bannwarth UPDATE ON GEOTHERMAL EXPLORATION IN DJIBOUTI
13.30		Pri Utami GEOTHERMAL TEACHING AND RESEARCH AT GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY: HISTORY AND FUTURE PLANS
13.50		Catherine Boseley NGATAMARIKI EXPLORATION DRILLING RESULTS AND CONCEPTUAL MODEL UPDATE
14.10		Yoong Wei Lim NGA AWA PURUA DEVELOPMENT UPDATE
14.30		Cesar Montenegro GEOTHERMAL POSSIBILITIES IN CHILE: A GENERAL OVERVIEW
14.50		Afternoon Tea
		GEOTHERMAL ENGINEERING 1
15.20		Phil White ADVANTAGES OF DEEP SLIMHOLE DRILLING FOR GEOTHERMAL EXPLORATION
15.40		Khasani DEVELOPMENT OF MEASUREMENT METHOD OF AIR-WATER TWO-PHASE FLOW SYSTEM USING 1000 Hz SINGLE FREQUENCY WAVE
16.00		Craig Morgan PureCycle® AND TURBODEN APPLICATIONS TO GEOTHERMAL POWER
16.20		Christine Siega ENHANCING INJECTION WELL PERFORMANCE BY COLD WATER STIMULATION IN ROTOKAWA AND KAWERAU GEOTHERMAL FIELDS
16.40		Peter Armstrong SYNERGIES IN MIGHT RIVER POWER’S GEOTHERMAL POWER STATION PROJECTS
17.00	Powhiri	Poster Session
		S. Aivazpour and J. Cull GEOTHERMAL ANOMALIES IN CENTRAL VICTORIA
		M. Al-Ibrahim and P.W.O. Hoskin THERMAL MODELING OF THE DEEP PLUTONIC PORTION OF MESOZOIC GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS IN THE NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA
		M.P. Hochstein ULUMBU AND SOKARIA GEOTHERMAL PROSPECTS (FLORES) RE-VISITED (2008)
		M. Sugihara CONTINUOUS GRAVITY MEASUREMENTS FOR GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIR MONITORING: PRESENT STATUS AND A FUTURE SCENARIO
17.15		PB Power Evening Drinks
17.30
17.40	Contact Energy Welcome Reception
18.30
19.15

Time	Tuesday 17 November	Wednesday 18 November
07.30
08.00	Registration opens	Registration opens
08.30
08.40
08.50
09.00	Welcome and Information: Paul Hoskin	Welcome and Information: Paul Hoskin (for details on the half-day workshop, click here)
	GEOTHERMAL and the MARKETPLACE 2
09.10	Keynote Speaker: Guðmundur Ómar Friðleifsson - HS Orka hf GEOTHERMAL – INCREASED ROLE IN A CARBON CONSTRAINED ENERGY MARKET	Mighty River Power Field Trip Information
09.10		GEOTHERMAL GEOPHYSICS
09.20		Jose Seastres UPDATE ON THE LIHIR GEOTHERMAL RESOURCE
09.40	Peter Omenda GEOTHERMAL DEVELOPMENT IN KENYA	Franklin G. Horowitz MEAN ANNUAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE (MAST) AND OTHER THERMAL ESTIMATES FOR AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND FROM SIX YEARS OF REMOTE SENSING OBSERVATIONS
10.00	Morning Tea	Morning Tea
10.00	RESERVOIR ENGINEERING	GEOPHYSICS (cont'd)
10.30	J. Florian Wellmann INTEGRATED WORKFLOW ENABLES GEOLOGICAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS IN GEOTHERMAL SIMULATIONS	Ed Gerner GEOTHERMAL EXPLORATION IN A CONDUCTIVE REGIME
10.50	Yurie Kumamoto HISTORY MATCHING AND PREDICTION SIMULATIONS OF OGIRI GEOTHERMAL FIELD, KYUSHU, JAPAN	Stephen Onacha THE HISTORY OF EXPLORATION OF GEOTHERMAL FIELDS IN THE KENYA RIFT VALLEY USING GEOPHYSICS: OUTCOMES AND LESSONS LEARNED
11.10	Peter Leary WELLHEAD PRESSURE & FLOW FLUCTUATIONS AT THE PRE-PRODUCTION OHAAKI GEOTHERMAL FIELD: EVIDENCE FOR “1/F-NOISE” SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY IN GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIRS?	Yasuhiro Fujimitsu EXPLORATION OF UNDERGROUND STRUCTURE IN OTO TOWN, FUKUOKA PREFECTURE, JAPAN, BY GRAVITY SURVEY
11.30	Robert McKibbin FLUID FLOW AND POLLUTANT TRANSPORT IN WARM-WATER AQUIFIERS	Catherine Lewis-Kenedi MICROSEISMICITY AND 3-D MAPPING OF AN ACTIVE GEOTHERMAL FIELD, KILAUEA LOWER EAST RIFT ZONE, PUNA, HAWAII
11.50	Bridget Lynne USING SINTER TEXTURES TO MAP HOT UP-FLOW ZONES	Stephen Onacha APPLICATION OF JOINT GEOPHYSICAL IMAGING (JGI) TECHNIQUES IN KENYA AND ICELAND FOR SUCCESSFUL WELL TARGETING
12.10	Lunch	Lunch
12.10	ENGINEERING 2	GEOSCIENCE 2 and ENVIRONMENTAL
13.10	Tony Gray POWER PLANT SELECTION IN MIGHTY RIVER POWER DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS	Clinton Rissman USING SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS TO INFER THE STRUCTURAL ARCHITECTURE OF SURFACE THERMAL AREAS - OHAAKI HYDROTHERMAL FIELD, TAUPO VOLCANIC ZONE, NEW ZEALAND
13.30	M. Imroz Sohel MODELLING OF GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANT	Bridget Lynne SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF HOT SPRING ACTIVITY AT GEYSER VALLEY, WAIRAKEI, NEW ZEALAND
13.50	Saeid Jalilinasrabady OPTIMIZATION OF SABALAN GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANT USING EXERGY CONCEPT	Abdulsalem Mohammed H. Al-Dukhain GEOLOGICAL AND GEOTHERMAL MAPPING IN TROLLADYNGJA-SOG AREA, SW ICELAND
14.10	David Wilson DESIGN AND OPERATION OF A PLANT TO USE GEOTHERMAL BRINE AS DRILLING FLUID AT NGATAMARIKI	Farrell Siega RESOURCE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR THE OPERATION OF THE 100 MW KAWERAU GEOTHERMAL LTD (KGL) POWER STATION
14.30	Kevin Brown TEST RIG EXPERIMENTS FOR SILICA SCALING INHIBITION	Ian Boothroyd RESTORING GEOTHERMAL ECOSYSTEMS: PERSPECTIVES IN THE COLONISATION PROCESS OF GEOTHERMALLY-INFLUENCED STREAMS.
14.50	Afternoon Tea	Afternoon Tea and Student Certificates
14.50	GEOTHERMAL GEOSCIENCE 1	GEOSCIENCE 2 and ENVIRONMENTAL (cont'd)
15.20	Peter Swedlund AN IN SITU INFRARED SPECTROSCOPIC METHOD TO STUDY SILICIC ACID (H4SiO4) POLYMERISATION CHEMISTRY ON IRON OXIDE SURFACES.	Dan Hikuroa TOWARD REALISING NEW ZEALANDS ENERGY POTENTIAL: A KAITIAKI APPROACH TO GEOTHERMAL DEVELOPMENT
15.20		STUDENTS
15.40	Hideshi Kaieda CO2 DISSLOVED WATER INJECTION INTO HDR GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIR	Research Projects
16.00	Jeremy O'Brien HYDROGEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NGATAMARIKI GEOTHERMAL FIELD AND A COMPARISON WITH THE ORAKEIKORAKO THERMAL AREA, TVZ, NZ
16.20	Stuart Simmons ORIGIN OF LAKE FILLED DEPRESSIONS IN THE NGAWHA GEOTHERMAL AREA, NORTHLAND, NEW ZEALAND-AN UPDATE
16.40	Bruce Christenson GEOCHEMICAL RECONNAISSANCE OF FLUIDS FROM THE KRAFLA AND NESJAVELLIR THERMAL AREAS, ICELAND: BASELINE STUDIES IN SUPPORT OF THE IDDP
17.00	New Zealand Geothermal Association AGM	Close of Sessions
19.00	Mighty River Power and Tauhara North No.2 Trust Workshop Banquet
23.30

Time	Thursday 19 November
07.30
08.00	Fieldtrips
08.30
08.40
08.50
09.00
09.10
09.20
09.40
10.00
10.30
10.50
11.10
11.30
11.50
12.10
12.30
12.50
13.10
13.30
13.50
14.10
14.30
14.50
15.20
15.40
16.00
16.20
16.40
17.00
17.30
19.00
23.30

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