Program

Day One / Wednesday, 14 November 2012

7:30am

9:00am

  • The Hon Chris Hartcher, MP Minister for Resources & Energy will address and open the conference
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9:25am

9:50am

  • The Hon Martin Ferguson AM, MP, Minister for Resources & Energy, Minister for Tourism will address the conference and take questions
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10:15am

10:50am

  • Presentation by Mary O'Kane, NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer
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11:10am

  • Presentation by Greg Bourne, Chair of ARENA Board
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11:30am

  • Presentation by Glenn Platt, Theme Leader Local Energy Systems, CSIRO
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11:50am

  • Panel Discussion Chaired by Mary O'Kane including Greg Bourne, Glenn Platt & Kobad Bhavnagri
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12:20pm

  • Australian Geothermal Energy Assoc Update
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12:30pm

  • Australian Geothermal Energy Group Update
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12:40pm

1:40pm

2:00pm

  • Green Rock Energy Ltd - Company Update
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2:20pm

2:40pm

  • Greenearth Energy Ltd - Company Update
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3:00pm

3:20pm

3:50pm

5:00pm

  • Gala Cocktail Function with guest speaker the Hon Robyn Parker MP, Minister for the Environment, Minister for Heritage
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Day Two / Thursday, 15 November 2012

8:40am

  • Towards an understanding of social acceptance for the development of geothermal energy in Australia
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  • Is it hot enough down there? Assessing geothermal potential in the Sydney-Gunnedah-Bowen Basin
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9:00am

  • Evaluating the potential contribution of Geothermal Energy to the National Electricity Market
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  • Naturally fractured hot rock: Exploring for deep, permeable EGS resources in Tasmania
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9:20am

  • The New Western Australian Geothermal Regulations
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  • Numerical simulation as a tool for understanding geothermal resources
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9:40am

  • Transmission Challenges and Potential of Integrating Geothermal Power of Cooper Basin to the Australian Electricity Grid
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  • Synthetic Thermal Modelling of Hot Rock Geothermal Systems
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10:00am

10:30am

  • The Paralana Engineered Geothermal Project - Case history and results of the hydraulic fracture stimulation
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10:50am

  • Geothermal Energy in Australia Now
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11:10am

  • The Innamincka Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) - Dealing with the Overpressures
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11:30am

  • Bayesian Data Fusion for Geothermal Exploration
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11:50am

  • New methods and instruments for determination of rock thermal properties and vertical variations in heat flow
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12:10pm

12:30pm

1:30pm

  • The CSIRO SESKA Geothermal Project, Western Australia
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  • Realisation of the geothermal potential of insulated coal basins: the challenge of integrated multi-use basin management
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1:50pm

  • The Principles of Direct Use Geothermal
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  • Queensland's Coastal Geothermal Energy Initiative: identifying hot rocks in cool areas.
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2:10pm

  • Performance of air-cooled organic Rankine cycle plants using temperature distributions from arid parts of South Australia
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  • Probabilistic Geothermal Resource Assessment
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2:30pm

  • Investigation of Pre-cooling with Munters Media for Air-cooled Geothermal Power Plants Performance Enhancement
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  • Geology and Geochemistry of Hydrothermal System of West Toba (Indonesia): A preliminary study
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2:50pm

  • Latest QGECE Research on Heat Exchangers
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  • Geothermal Resources of Java - Indonesia
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3:10pm

3:40pm

  • PANEL DISCUSSION: HOW DO WE UNLEASH THE HEAT?
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5:00pm

Day Three / Friday, 16 November 2012

8:40am

  • Research into drilling fluid rheology and behaviour at extremely high temperatures and pressures
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9:00am

  • Review of thermal conductivity correction methods for prediction at reservoir conditions
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  • Numerical simulations of bore hole breakout using Discrete Element Method
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9:20am

  • Great Artesian Basin Heat Source Characterisation in the light of recent isotope studies
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  • Habanero 4 - Performance Monitoring While Drilling
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9:40am

  • Geothermal potential of the crust - the role of the underworld
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  • Drilling a Enhanced Geothermal System in the Cooper Basin
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10:00am

  • Targeting Fracture Permeability for Geothermal Developments in the North Perth Basin
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  • Reverse Circulation Cementing for HP-HT EGS Wells: A Solution to Multiple Technical and Operational Challenges
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10:20am

  • Electromagnetic Monitoring of Geothermal Fields - lessons learned
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  • High Pressure High Temperature Cementing
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10:40am

11:10am

  • Natural fracture networks enhancing geothermal producibility, mapping or predicting!
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11:30am

  • Application of connectivity measures in enhanced geothermal systems
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11:50am

  • A Stochastic Model of the Fracture Network in the Habanero Enhanced Geothermal System
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12:10pm

  • Geothermal reservoir characterisation in Australia: Opportunities for geochemical tracer testing
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12:30pm

1:30pm

  • Experimental evaluation of the flow properties in the Perth Basin Mesozoic sandstone formations, Western Australia
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1:50pm

  • Modelling Heat Extraction by Fluid Circulation through an Array of Conductive Fractures
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2:10pm

  • A Realistic Assessment of Recoverable Thermal Energy from Australian Geothermal Reservoirs: A Simulation Study
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2:30pm

  • Local Thermal Non-Equilibrium heat transfer in fractures: the realistic approach in geothermal reservoir simulations
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