Geothermal Energy

Disciplines
Geoscience
Category
Subsurface • Foundational • Energy Transition • Geothermal • Reservoir Characterization • Production • Completion • Drilling
Format
Classroom • Live Online 
Available
Public • Private 

Who Should Attend

Project/product managers, R&D engineers/scientists, sales engineers, and technical support engineers.

Description

This course will review all geothermal systems (hydrothermal, enhanced, advanced) for geothermal power generation and direct use systems, focusing on subsurface engineering (resource characterization, resource engineering, production, data science).

The class will be interactive, with the entire time split almost equally between lectures and class discussions. Technical papers will be handled for each topic and, in order to enhance their critical thinking and learning experience, students will have the opportunity to discuss them in class.

Learning Outcomes

  • Understanding of geothermal energy systems
  • Understanding of current technology bottlenecks and low hanging fruits across technology, policy, business, etc.
  • Understanding of current tools for geothermal exploration
  • Understanding of technology overlaps and gaps between the geothermal and O&G industries
  • Understanding of current theoretical/numerical models and gaps in fundamental and applied research and laboratory/field validation cases

Course Content

  • Geothermal Energy Basics
  • Hydrothermal Systems
  • Enhanced Geothermal Systems
  • Advanced Geothermal Systems
  • Geothermal Heating and Cooling Systems
  • Chemical Composition of Geothermal Fluids and Impact on Well and Plant Corrosion and Flow Assurance
  • Techno-Economic Analysis of Geothermal Systems
  • Hybrid Systems: Geothermal CCUS, Geothermal/DAC, Geothermal/H2, Geothermal/CSP, etc.

In-Person

Length
3 Days

Virtual

Length
6 Half-Days

Upcoming Events

Houston

Instructor

Silviu Livescu, PhD headshotSilviu Livescu, PhD

Birol Dindoruk, PhD headshotBirol Dindoruk, PhD

Sample Topic