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.

18th Geothermal Get-Together

The next GGT will take place on Wednesday January 29th at 15.30. We will have a borrel afterwards (starting around 17.00).

17^th Geothermal Get Together

• Geothermal heat and the sustainability of district heating, Anja Jolman, Eneco
• Geothermal heat - Current activities Ennatuurlijk Aardwarmte, Andrea Vondrak, Ennatuurlijk Aardwarmte
• Monitoring Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage with Controlled-Source Electromagnetic Geophysics, Paula Rulff, TU Delft

16^th Geothermal Get Together

• Update SCAN project including the recently drilled wells, Adriaan Janszen, EBN
• Challenges to develop geothermal energy in urban areas, Jan Willem Rösingh, Perpetuum Energy Partners
• The impact of bridging additives on wellbore strengthening in shallow unconsolidated formations, Alexis Koulidis, TU Delft

15^th Geothermal Get Together

• 10 years Chair of Geothermal Engineering at TU Delft, David Bruhn, TU Delft
• 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

14^th 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

13^th 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 Litoměřice, 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!

12^th 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

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