Consulting
Where expertise meets innovation
We offer innovative solutions to your most complex challenges. We offer a wide range of consulting services to geothermal stakeholders, including energy companies, Maori trusts, and government agencies. Our consulting expertise is grounded in its extensive research and teaching experience, enabling it to provide innovative solutions to complex geothermal challenges. Our consulting activities are driven by a commitment to best practices in geothermal technology and delivering results for our partners.
Consulting Services We Offer
Reservoir Modelling
Leverage our expert reservoir modelling for accurate forecasting and strategic decision-making, optimizing asset potential through geoscientific data integration.
Above Ground Engineering
Addressing engineering demands through power plant engineering, geothermal energy implementation, and expert problem-solving across sectors.
Resource Assessment
With our cutting-edge resource assessment and uncertainty quantification techniques, confidently evaluate and analyse your reservoirs’ potential and economic feasibility, even with limited data.
Mineral Extraction
Using reservoir modelling, we estimate rare mineral extraction from geothermal brines and develop optimised mineral extraction strategies. This approach has been applied to lithium extraction projects in the USA and Italy.
Well Test Analysis
From well-test design and supervision to geothermal reservoir engineering, we provide thorough and results-driven field operation monitoring programmes.
Independent Peer Review
Reviewing geothermal resources, developments, and modelling to provide critical evaluations of the methodologies, data, and findings to ensure accuracy, reliability, and best practice.
Recent Projects
Bukit Daun, Indonesia
PGE / 2023
Conducted a greenfield resource assessment for the Bukit Daun Geothermal Field. The conceptual model was reviewed, a reservoir model was built and uncertainty quantification was implemented.
Technical Assistance on Subsurface Due Diligence
PGE / 2023 / 2024
Provided technical assistance for subsurface due diligence guiding Pertamina Geothermal Energy on the future potential of geothermal assets.
Ohaaki Forecasting
Contact Energy / 1985 – 2024
Developed numerical models of Ohaaki to assist with field management and planning for the future, including support for renewal of resource consents.
Tauhara 2 Project, New Zealand
Contact Energy / 2009 – 2024
We supported Contact Energy with the recently completed development of the Tauhara 2 power project. Using our reservoir model of the Wairakei-Tauhara geothermal system, calibrated to 60 years of production data, we provided forecast scenarios.
PGE IPO Resource Assessment, Indonesia
PGE / 2022
Carried out an independent resources assessment of the Lahendong and Kamojang geothermal fields including their response to future production scenarios. The results of these studies were included in the prospectus for their Initial Public Offering in 2022.
East Brawley, USA
Phoenix Lithium / 2023
Provided resource assessment of the amount of recoverable lithium from geothermal brine in the East Brawley geothermal field. Forecasts of lithium extraction were optimised using targeted production and reinjection.
Our Courses
We also provide short courses, workshops, and training. We have delivered these in Australia, the Caribbean, Chile, Iceland, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines, and the USA as well as in New Zealand.
Geothermal Project Management (GPM) Courses
New Zealand
Funded by the Manaaki New Zealand Short-Term Training Scholarship, we offer focused Renewable Energy and Geothermal Project Management courses five times a year, specifically designed for ASEAN and African nations.
National Geothermal Association of the Philippines (NGAP) Training
Philippines
In partnership with the National Geothermal Association of the Philippines, we delivered four one-week courses for early-career geothermal professionals in the Philippines. The courses covered: geosciences, above-ground engineering, reservoir modelling and resource assessment, and project management.
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) Workshop
Taiwan
Delivered an intensive two-week reservoir modelling workshop for ITRI (Taiwan). Course participants developed and calibrated a reservoir model of a Taiwanese geothermal system.
African Rift Geothermal (ARGeo) Conference Workshop
Tanzania
Delivered pre-conference short courses in partnership with Jacobs. These courses covered geothermal reservoir engineering and applying the UNFC framework for geothermal resources.
Pertamina Geothermal Energy (PGE) Training
Indonesia
For the last three years, through a close relationship with PGE, we have provided multiple rounds of mentoring to their staff. Held in New Zealand, PGE staff will work in our offices, learning reservoir modelling applied to their geothermal fields.
Iceland School of Energy Course
Iceland
Since 2018, The Geothermal Institute has taught reservoir modelling through intensive block courses for the Iceland School of Energy, as a part of their MSc in Sustainable Energy Engineering program.
Recent Collaborations
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Geothermal Institute
Level 3, 70 Symonds Street,
Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand
geothermal@auckland.ac.nz