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

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Reservoir Modelling

Leverage our expert reservoir modelling for accurate forecasting and strategic decision-making, optimizing asset potential through geoscientific data integration.

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Above Ground Engineering

Addressing engineering demands through power plant engineering, geothermal energy implementation, and expert problem-solving across sectors.

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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.

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Geoscience

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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.

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Fluid Analysis

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Well Test Analysis

From well-test design and supervision to geothermal reservoir engineering, we provide thorough and results-driven field operation monitoring programmes.

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Independent Peer Review

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What our clients have to say

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Bespoke Short 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. 

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Geothermal and Renewable Energy Project Management

2017 – Present

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.

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NGAP Training, Philippines

2024

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.

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Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan

2024

Delivered an intensive two-week reservoir modelling workshop for ITRI (Taiwan). Course participants developed and calibrated a reservoir model of a Taiwanese geothermal system. 

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ARGeo pre-conference workshop, Africa

2022 / 2024

Delivered pre-conference short courses in partnership with Jacobs. These courses covered geothermal reservoir engineering and applying the UNFC framework for geothermal resources.

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Pertamina Geothermal Energy Mentoring, Indonesia

2022 – Present

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.

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Iceland School of Energy, Reykjavik University

2018 – 2023

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.

Our Clients

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Geothermal Institute
Level 3, 70 Symonds Street, 
Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand
geothermal@auckland.ac.nz