Geothermal Get-Together

The Geothermal Get-Together (GGT) is an initiative to bridge the emerging geothermal industry and university research, by the combination of a short seminar followed by informal discussions afterward. The GGT has contributions ranging from state of the art research to new policy to industry best practices.

The 12th Geothermal Get-Together is in the making! The event will be finally - after two online years -organised at the TU Delft campus again. This way we can get back to the original idea of getting together in an informal way. Of course we also plan to have a borrel afterwards.

The event will take place on October 6th at 15.30 CEST.
Location: TU Delft campus (room will be announced later)

We invited the following speakers:

• Hans Bolscher (Geothermie Nederland)
• Marten ter Borgh (EBN)
• Martin Bloemendal (TU Delft)

11th Geothermal Get Together – 19 January 2022

• “Past and future trends in geothermal drilling”, Geertjan van Og, Well Engineering Partners
• “DRAGLOW: Drag reduction in geothermal and district heating systems to lower investment and operational costs”, Pejman Shoeibi Omrani, TNO
• The benefit of multi-lateral stimulation in tackling reservoir heterogeneity and optimizing well potential for deep and ultradeep geothermal project”, Jos Okkerman, OEAS
• “Huisman Composite Tubulars”, Korneel van der Meer, Huisman

8^th Geothermal Get-Together – 17^th March 2021:

• “Development Geothermie Nederland”, Radboud Vorage, Geothermie Nederland
• “Geothermal Energy the road to impact”, Marit Brommer, International Geothermal Association
• “The impact of heterogeneity on geothermal production: Simulation benchmarks and applications”, Yang Wang, TU Delft
• “The WARM study: Integration of national subsurface and surface heat potential”, Coen Leo, Panterra
• “Novel drilling technology for long multilateral structures”, Jan Jette Blangé, Canopus Drilling Solutions

7^th GGT – 4^th November 2020:

• “HT-ATES at the TU Delft, feasibility of a promising technology for the future heat system”, Marc Pijnenborg, ENGIE
• “HT-ATES, a hot topic for deep research”, Martin Bloemendal, KWR/TU Delft
• “Underground Thermal Energy Storage: challenges and opportunities in Europe based on the HEATSTORE project”, Luca Guglielmetti, University of Geneva

6^th GGT - 30^th June 2020:

• “Positioning Geothermal Energy in WarmingUP”, Frits Verheij, TNO
• “Prospects for Seismicity-Permeability Linkages in EGS Reservoirs”, Derek Elsworth, Penn State University
• “De-Risking Geothermal Energy Projects”, Annemarie Muntendam-Bos, TU Delft

5^th GGT - 4^th December 2019:

• “Advances in modelling energy production from high enthalpy geothermal systems” John O’Sullivan (University of Auckland)
• “Perspectives for the sustainable use of geothermal resources” Maren Brehme (TU Delft)
• “Benefits of seasonal heat storage for DHN” Martin Bloemendal (TU Delft, KWR)
• “The learning curve in geothermal operations: finding silver bullets to combat the challenges” Barbara Cox (Hydreco Geomec)

4^th GGT - 27^th June 2019:

• “Parameter interdependency in energy and economic output of a geothermal development strategy” Alex Daniilidis (TU Delft)
• “A play based portfolio perspective for accelerating geothermal energy in the Netherlands” Jan Diederik van Wees (University Utrecht/TNO)
• “Realizing the promise of geothermal energy in the Netherlands” Frits Wolters (PwC)
• “Development of geothermal projects in urban environment” Jan Willem Rösingh (PEP)

3^rd GGT - 29^th November 2018:

• “Platform Geothermie and the Geothermal Masterplan Netherlands”, Frank Schoof (Chairman Stichting Platform Geothermie)
• “Geothermal Formation Evaluation”, Tom Bradley (Senior Geoscience Advisor Baker Hughes)
• “Efficient and robust forward simulation of complex geothermal processes”, Denis Voskov (Associate Professor TU Delft)
• During the 3rd Geothermal Get-Together, it was announced that research on Geothermal Science and Engineering at TU Delft got another boost. Read more

2^nd GGT - 12^th July 2018:

• "A laboratory study on the drilling of laterals by jetting", Richard Bakker (Post-Doctoral researcher TU Delft)
• "Well integrity monitoring using distributed fiber optic sensing", Thomas Reinsch (Group leader Geothermal Energy systems GFZ Potsdam/ visiting scientist TU Delft)
•  “Ultra Deep Geothermal - Exploring for high temperature heat in the Netherlands”, Nora Heijnen (EBN)

1^st GGT - 19^th March 2018:

•  “An overview of student activities in the first years; some highlights”, Karl-Heinz Wolf (Associate Professor / Head of Geoscience & Engineering Laboratory TU Delft)
• “Stichting DAP: supporting geothermal at Delft (3O)", Mike Woning (DAP president) / Andries Wever (former DAP chairman / co-founding father)
•  “Introduction of a geothermal well at the TU Delft campus - Above ground consequences”, Chris Hellinga (Sustainability Program Manager / Scientific advisor TU Delft)
• “'Well design for the proposed TU Delft campus doublet: integration of science and operation”, Abe Steiginga (Technical Lead Geothermal Energy project TU Delft)
• “Ongoing and future geothermal research at TU Delft”, David Bruhn (Geothermal Expertise Leader/ Part-time Professor Geothermal Engineering TU Delft/GfZ)

Contact

Would you like to present at one of the future GGT’s? Please contact the geothermal team: geothermal@tudelft.nl 

Phil Vardon
Alexandros Daniilidis
Susanne Laumann