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.

Upcoming events

15th Geothermal Get-Together

The event will take place on Thursday February 1st at 15.30. As usual we will have a borrel afterwards.
Location: TU Delft campus (CITG, Lecture Hall A)

The programme is as follows:

  • “10 years Chair of Geothermal Engineering at TU Delft”, David Bruhn, TU Delft
  • “HVC last generation well design vs conventional”, Bert Jan Koers, HVC
  • “Geothermal plays in the Netherlands. A birds eye view of a geologist”, Harmen Mijnlieff, TNO
  • “Geothermal Development in the Vienna Basin”, Bernhard Novotny, OMV
  • Best Geothermal Thesis award

 


Previous events

14th Geothermal Get Together

  • The TU Delft campus geothermal project
  • Geology and Coring targets, Andrea Vondrak (TU Delft) & Annelies Bender (Aardyn)
  • Well design, Bas van Schravendijk, Aardyn
  • Open hole logging, Geoff Page, Baker Hughes
  • Directional Drilling, Diana Tronco, Inco-Drilling
  • Well head design, Alexander Skotarczak, Liberty Drilling Equipment

13th Geothermal Get Together – 30 March 2023

  • Re-shaping Stichting DAP and Symposium news, Stichting DAP
  • The Geothermal Production Challenge, Hans Sjerps, Halliburton
  • Using the Wave Equation based Inversion to address the subsurface challenge in geothermal, Panos Doulgeris, Delft Inversion
  • Development of a multi-technology geothermal test site at Litoměƙice, Czech Republic, David Bruhn, TU Delft
  • Best Geothermal Thesis Award, David Bruhn
    • The award went to three students this year: Maria Erica Biagini, Freek Smit and Sverre Henri Willem Hassing. Congratulations!

12th Geothermal Get Together – 6 October 2022

  • “Geothermal energy in the Dutch heat Transition - role, challenges and opportunities”, Hans Bolscher, Geothermie NL
  • “De-risking Dutch geothermal plays by acquiring subsurface data – the SCAN borehole campaign”, Marten ter Borgh, EBN
  • “PUSH-IT: Outlook on piloting underground seasonal heat storage in Delft (and many other places)”, 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

10th Geothermal Get-Together – 28th September 2021

  • “Why formation gas is an important obstacle in the application of geothermal energy”, Anja Jolman, ENECO
  • “Results quickscan – options for formation gas of DAPwell”, Taco Hoencamp, RHDHV
  • “Sustainability of geothermal energy; the impact of formation gas”, Hester Dijkstra, TNO
  • “Formation gas to pseudo natural gas”, Bas van Dun, Hydreco Geomec & Maarten Jonker, Biogas plus
  • “Analysis of Formation Gas Processing in Geothermal Projects”, Midas de Wildt, TU Delft

 

9th Geothermal Get-Together – 23rd June 2021 (collaboration with Stichting DAP):

  • “Cooperation as blueprint for DAP”, Andries Wever, Founder Stichting DAP
  • “CSI – Corrosion ‘Schmoo’ Investigation”, Ayla Reerink, Veegeo
  • “Development of geothermal energy in the province of South-Holland”, Youri Nijsse, Province of South-Holland
  • “Public acceptance and framing of geothermal energy”, Jeanne Steijn & Anita Trisiah, TU Delft

 

8th Geothermal Get-Together – 17th 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 BlangĂ©, Canopus Drilling Solutions

7th GGT – 4th 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

6th GGT - 30th 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

5th GGT - 4th 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)

    4th GGT - 27th 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)

    3rd GGT - 29th 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

    2nd GGT - 12th 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)
    •  â€œUltra Deep Geothermal - Exploring for high temperature heat in the Netherlands”, Nora Heijnen (EBN)

    1st GGT - 19th March 2018:

    •  â€œAn 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)
    •  â€œIntroduction 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