Focus on Geothermal

Enerchange and ThinkGeoEnergy invite you to join our weekly Focus on Geothermal webinar, every Friday at the end of the working week at 4.00 pm (CEST).

We are looking forward to welcome you at the next webinar.

Our Next Webinar:

 Fr. April 19, 2024: Giulia Filippini (Exergy International) and Paolo Danesi (Exergy International): Unlocking Geothermal Power: Exploring the Rise of ORC Geothermal Technology Worldwide

Here you can find the past Focus on Geothermal presentations, some of them published on our YouTube-channel:

Fr. April 05, 2024: Hande Sile (Kurita): ECOPID Project: A Cooperation for Environmentally Responsible Solutions for Upper Rhine Geothermal Field

Fr. March 22, 2024: Daniel Jaskulski (Herrenknecht AG): UrbanVibroTruck-New innovative mobile shaker for reflection seismology specially optimized for use in urban areas

Fr. March 08, 2024: Malcolm Ross (University of Texas at Austin) and Ken Wisian (University of Texas at Austin): Texas Heat, Global Impact: HotRock Geothermal Research Consortium

Fr. February 23, 2024: Kai Imolauer (Rödl & Partner): Geothermal Risk Mitigation Facility - Results & Lessons learnt

Fr. February 09, 2024: İsmet Yücetas (Middle East Air Drilling Services): Injection of Non-Condensable Gases in Geothermal Reservoirs

Fr. Januar 26, 2024: Andrea Duvia (Turboden S.p.A.): Large-scale heat pumps - an effective instrument for increasing the share of geothermal energy in heat grids and industrial applications

Fr. Januar 12, 2024: Jamie Airnes (CEO HydroVolve): Percussion-Enhanced Drilling Technology Supercharges Drilling Performance

Fr. December 15, 2023: Dr. Jochen Schneider (Enerchange) and Alexander Richter (ThinkGeoEnergy): Geothermal Review 2023

Fr. December 01, 2023: Kerry Daly (Expro): Oilfield Completion Tech. & Reservoir Analysis for geothermal in the Netherlands

Fr. November 03, 2023: Dennis Duwe (Baker Hughes): Electric Submersible Generators - Using ESPs in an Unfamiliar Way

Fr. September 22, 2023: Todd Parker (Blue Spark Energy) - Effective wellbore remediation using high-pulsed power technology

Fr. September 08, 2023: Albert Genter (ES-Geothermie): Geothermal energy in Northern Alsace: social acceptability as a success driver?

Fr. August 25, 2023: Bastien Poux (Aetna Geothermal): Introduction to wellsite geology for geothermal projects

Fr. August 11, 2023: Mark McClure (RESFRAC): Fervo Energy's 'Project Red' Results are a Historic Breakthrough for Geothermal - What Comes Next?

Fr. July 28, 2023: Chen Gping Chai (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) - Applying Transfer Learning to a Geothermal Experiment Site

Fr. June 30, 2023: Christopher Schifflechner: Geothermal ORC Systems - Current research trends and ongoing experimental activities at TUM

Fr. June 16, 2023: Yudi Hartono (PT GEO DIPA ENERGI): Economics of Geothermal Drilling in Indonesia - Updates on Dieng and Patuha

Fr. June 02, 2023: Terra Rogers (CATF): The Supercritical / Superhot Geothermal Frontier

Fr. May 19, 2023: Emily Cox (Universities of Oxford and Cardiff): Perception spillover: impacts of the fracking controversy on public perceptions of deep geothermal

Fr. May 5, 2023: Kate Lewis (Geoflow Imaging) & Tom Fleure (Ambient Reservoir Monitoring): Mapping permeability and porosity in Geothermal Systems

Fr. April 21, 2023: Michael Schmidt (DERA): Battery Raw Materials - Outlook to 2030 "A European perspective"

Fr. April 14, 2023: Jack Kiruja (IRENA): Global status of Geothermal Markets and Technology

Fr. March 24, 2023: Atty. Allan Barcena (Energy Development Corporation): Elevating our Partners in Progress

Fr. March 17, 2023: Dr. Andreas Kaus (Baker Hughes): Accelerating Geothermal Projects with GreenFire Energy's GreenLoop

Fr. February 24, 2023: Emil Martini (EGEC): EU Funding programmes for resources assessment, drilling and geothermal project development

Fr. February 10, 2023: Burcu Tasdemir (Geological Survey NRW): The new public subsurface data sharepoint for NRW/Germany

Fr. January 27, 2023: Camilo Mejía (Enovate AI): Digital Twins for Geothermal and Advanced Geothermal Engineered System

Fr. January 13, 2023: Lars Yström (KIT AGW): Solute Geothermometry - Applications and Development

Fr. December 16, 2022: Dr. Jochen Schneider (Enerchange) and Alexander Richter (ThinkGeoEnergy): Wrap-up of 2022: Highlights, innovations and new perspectives for the geothermal industry

Fr. December 9, 2022: Sebastian Homuth (Deutsche Erdwärme): Update and first findings of the geothermal exploration well GN-Th-1 in Graben-Neudorf, Germany

Fr. November 25, 2022: Luca Xodo (STEAM S.r.l.): Extracting minerals from geothermal brines: How to conduct a feasibility study?

Fr. November 11, 2022: Thor Erik Musæus (GTML): Geothermal heating and cooling from wells of 150 – 1500m in hard rocks

Fr. October 14, 2022: Lorena Bello (LIAG): Unsupervised Machine Learning application for Seismic Facies Classification in geothermal exploration

Fr. September 30, 2022: Julian Dawo (Juconn Solutions): Digital Leakage Monitoring in District Heating Networks

Fr. September 16, 2022: Robert Emrich (TORC Power Solutions): ORC and the small-scale geothermal power opportunity

Fr. September 02, 2022: Dr. Ghazal Izadi (Geothermic Solution Inc.): Breakthrough clean and safe GeoHeatTM harvesting

Fr. August 08, 2022: Maren Brehme (ETH Zürich): Exploration and Operation of Geothermal Systems - A Research Group supported by Energi Simulation

Fr. July 22, 2022: Diego Morata (CEGA): Lithium Opportunities in Chile and Argentina, an overview of the current status

Fr. July 8, 2022: Cannur Bozkurt (Enerchange Türkiye): Current Situation & Opportunities of Turkish Geothermal Market

Fr. July 1, 2022: Carlos Jorquera (PiensaGeotermia): Current status on geothermal development in South America

Fr. June 10, 2022: Joseph Scherer (GreenFire Energy): Economic models enabled by geothermal closed-loop technology

Fr. May 27, 2022: Prof. John McLennan (University of Utah): Utah FORGE (Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy): Status and Lookahead

Fr. April 29, 2022: Sanjeev Kumar (EGEC): REPowering the EU: What geothermal can do for Europe and what Europe can do for geothermal

Fr. April 01, 2022: Egbert Jolie & Anna Jentsch: Advanced soil gas analytics - Implication for geothermal resources and beyond

Fr. March 18, 2022: Niklas Geißler: How Micro Turbine Drilling (MTD) offers new exploration possibilities for the geothermal industry

Fr. March 04, 2022: Marit Brommer: Sustainable Geothermal: what gets measured gets done

Fr. February 18, 2022: Thomas Garabetian: Geothermal and Sustainable Finance: opportunity or additional burden?

Fr. February 11, 2022: Ben Burke: Geothermal conversion of oil and gas wells in Nevada

Fr. January 28, 2022: Patrick Hanson: Desalination with Geothermal Energy

Fr. January 21, 2022: Valentin Goldberg: Challenges and Chances of Lihtium Extraction from Geothermal Systems in Germany

Fr. January 14, 2022: Jean-Jacques Graff: The perspective of Geothermal Energy in France

Fr. December 17, 2021: Daniel Mölk: Development Potential of Closed-Loop Geothermal Systems

Fr. December 10, 2021: Clément Baujard: Feedback from Soultz-sous-Forêts, Rittershoffen and Illkirch industrial geothermal sites operation and environmental monitoring

Fr. December 3, 2021: Gerrit Fuelling: Lithium: Resources, Processes, Economics & Feasibility

Fr. November 19, 2021: Cristina Vasilache (Schlumberger): Enabling geothermal growing using Electric Submersible Pumps at 225°C

Fr. November 12, 2021: Sebastian Homuth (Deutsche ErdWärme GmbH): The geothermal power plant project Graben-Neudorf and further developments of Deutsche Erdwärme

Fr. November 5, 2021: Mark McClure (ResFrac Corporation): Multistage Stimulation with Limited-Entry Completion Could Enable a Breakthrough for EGS

Fr. October 29, 2021: Bastien Hermant (TLS Geothermics): Magnetotelluric exploration of a crustal fault zone geothermal system in the French Massif Central

Fr. October 22, 2021: Hansruedi Maurer (ETH Zürich): Studying the behavior of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) using Deep Underground Laboratories

Fr. October 15, 2021: Gordon Stove (Adrok Ltd.): Green technology for finding subsurface geothermal zones from ground level before drilling

Fr. October 8, 2021: Dorothee Siefert (EnBW AG): CO2 handling in binary systems - modelling CO2 contents, salinity and p-T conditions

Fr. October 1, 2021: :Gregor Rumberg (International Geothermal Association): Geothermal Direct Use opportunities in Central America

Fr. September 24, 2021: Dr. Tobias Fritschle (Geologischer Dienst NRW): DGE-ROLLOUT - Promoting Deep Geothermal Energy in North-West Europe

Fr. September 17, 2021: Alexander Richter (WGC Organizing Comitee): Introducing WGC 2020+1

Fr. September 10, 2021: Morteza Esmaeil Pour (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): Multilateral closed deep geothermal system: a new approach for sustainable geothermal energy.

Fr. August 27, 2021: Isabelle Chambefort (GNS Science): Geothermal: The Next Generation - toward supercritical resource in New Zealand.

Fr. July 16, 2021: Phlippe Dumas (EGEC) & Torsten Rosenboom (WFW): Invest in Geothermal: Risk Management and promising geothermal Markets

Fr. July 02, 2021: Jean-Philippe Gibaud (GEOLITH): Lithium extraction from geothermal brines: feedback from pilot tests

Fr. June 18, 2021: Maria Ueltzen (Rödl & Partner): Continuation of the GRMF Program in East Africa

Fr. June 11, 2021: Jörg Uhde (Pfalzwerke geofuture): Virtual Tour in the Geothermal Power Plant Insheim

Fr. June 4, 2021: Fida Abu Libdeh (GeoSilica): GeoSilica – deriving value from geothermal brine

Fr. May 21, 2021: Elif Kaymakci (EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG): Lithium for batteries from geothermal waters in Germany - The joint project UnLimited

Fr. May 07, 2021: Dr. Annamária Nádor (Mining and Geological Survey of Hungary): Hungary's first interactive geothermal information platform - unlocking the potential in the Pannoninan basin

Fr. April 23, 2021: Ryan Law (Geothermal Engineering LTD): Conversion of hydrocarbon wells to geothermal. A real world on-shore example from the UK

Fr. April 9, 2021: Igor Kocis (GA Drilling): Deep Geothermal by PLASMABIT Technology

Fr. March 26, 2021: Dr.-Ing. Florian Heberle (Center of Energy Technology (ZET), University of Bayreuth): Environmental evaluation of a Geothermal Power Plant in the Southern German Molasse Basin by a Life Cycle Analysis 

Fr. March 12, 2021: Daniel Holzer (DrillTec GUT GmbH): Glass Fiber Reinforced Epoxy Casing System for Geothermal Application

Fr. February 26, 2021: Yvonne A'Campo: Risk Assessment of HSE Risks of Ultra Deep Geothermal Energy and Enhanced Geothermal Systems in the Netherlands

Fr. February 12, 2021: Phlippe Dumas (EGEC): Funding of Heating and Cooling Infrastructures

Fr. Januar 29, 2021: Gad Shoshan (Ormat Technologies Inc.): Recent installations - implications for the future of Geothermal Energy in Turkey

Fr. January 15, 2020: Dr. Hartwig Schröder (ENEX POWER Germany): CO₂ in Geothermal Power Plants - Capturing, Compression and Injection

Fr. December 18, 2020: Jean Schmittbuhl (EOST - Université de Strasbourg): Recent earthquakes in Strasbourg: first lessons learned from seismic observations

Fr. December 11, 2020: Alexander Richter (ThinkGeoEnergy): Mapping geothermal power generation - ThinkGeoEnergy’s updated Global Geothermal Power Plant Map

Fr., November 27, 2020: Torsten Rosenboom (WFW) Marit Brommer (IGA) Jochen Schneider: Review of the IGC Invest Geothermal Online Meeting

Fr. November 13, 2020: Emmanuel Auger (Baker Hughes): Monitoring the induced seismicity of a long project in the context of difficult social acceptance

Fr. October 30, 2020: Alexander Richter (ThinkGeoEnergy) & Jochen Schneider (Enerchange): Introducing the IGC Invest Geothermal Online Meeting on Switzerland, France and Croatia

Fr. October 2, 2020: Dr. Jochen Schneider (Enerchange): Geothermal Energy in Bavaria: Market Conditions & Praxisforum Geothermie.Bayern 2020

Fr. September 18, 2020: Clare Baxter (Seequent): Enhancing drilling collaboration with innovative cloud solutions and workflows.

Fr. September 4, 2020: Julian Richardson (Parhelion): Risk finance for geothermal resource development

Fr. August 21, 2020: Prof. Dr. Alper Baba (Izmir Institute of Technology): Re-using geothermally produced CO₂ in Geothermal Power Plants

Fr. August 7, 2020: Alex Richter (Iceland Renewable Energy Cluster/ThinkGeoEnergy): Where are Things Going with Geothermal?

Fr. July 24, 2020: Robert Winsloe (Eavor Technologies): A progress update on Eavor's closed-loop system and their upcoming geothermal project in Geretsried

Fr. July 10, 2020: Philippe Dumas (EGEC): The EU green deal: a new energy and climate policy framework for a Geothermal decade?

Fr. June 26, 2020: Dr. Maren Brehme (TU Delft): Geothermal Energy in the Netherlands - Experiences, Potentials and Targets

Fr. June 12, 2020: Edda Sif Pind Aradóttir (CEO - CarbFix):: Carbfix – capturing and turning CO₂ to stone

Fr. May 29, 2020: Daniel Mölk (Country Manager Indonesia @ Steag GmbH):: Geothermal Development in Indonesia.