Geothermal Resource Decision Workshop – Practical Decision-Making for Fault-Hosted Deep Circulation Geothermal Systems

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Develop exploration strategies that optimize technical success probability while remaining financially viable under realistic budget constraints.
• Build fault-hosted deep circulation conceptual models and refine them using surface data, well logs, and production test results.
• Combine structural geology, geochemistry, geophysics (e.g., MT, gravity), thermodynamics, and well data into a coherent resource interpretation.
• Apply volumetric heat-in-place and power density methods, including P10–P50–P90 estimates, to quantify uncertainty in power generation capacity.
• Use simplified financial models to assess drilling decisions, exploration strategies, and the business case for committing to geothermal power plant development.

This course is designed for professionals involved in geothermal resource exploration, subsurface evaluation, and energy project decision-making. It is especially valuable for multidisciplinary teams working on geothermal prospects where technical uncertainty must be balanced with economic risk.

• Structural Geologists
• Geothermal Geologists
• Geochemists
• Geophysicists (MT, gravity, seismic specialists)
• Reservoir Engineers
• Drilling Engineers
• Production Engineers
• Well Test Engineers

• Basic
• Intermediate

The workshop uses a blended learning approach combining short focused lectures with progressive, team-based hands-on exercises built around a realistic synthetic geothermal case study. Participants work in small multidisciplinary teams to design surveys, interpret data, build conceptual models, estimate power capacity, and evaluate project economics. Each stage includes facilitated discussions, peer presentations, expert feedback, and iterative model refinement. The format emphasizes experiential learning, critical thinking, uncertainty assessment, and real-world decision simulation.

Your expert course leader is an internationally recognized geothermal expert specializing in structural geology, geothermal conceptual modelling, and resource assessment. With nearly 25 years of industry experience, he has supported geothermal developers, research consortia, and academic institutions in evaluating and advancing geothermal prospects worldwide.

His field experience spans magmatic and deep-circulation geothermal systems hosted in volcanic and sedimentary settings across North America, Central America, the Caribbean, Africa, Turkey, Western Europe, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Japan. This global exposure allows him to provide comparative insights across tectonic and geothermal settings.

His technical expertise includes integration of structural geology, surface mapping, geophysics (including resistivity and gravity), geochemistry, thermodynamics, and subsurface well data to build robust geothermal conceptual models. These models are directly applied to well targeting strategies and probabilistic power capacity assessments used for investment decisions.

He has provided wellsite geology support and real-time conceptual model updates during drilling campaigns, improving drilling success rates and reducing subsurface uncertainty. His structural geology research includes stress analysis applications at both prospect and regional scales.

In addition to field and consulting work, your expert course leader has authored or co-authored more than 100 technical publications related to geothermal systems worldwide. He is highly regarded for delivering hands-on geothermal workshops that bridge technical interpretation and financial decision-making.

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