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Prof. Roland N. Horne
Stanford University
Stanford, CA USA |
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| Geothermal Data Mining - - Value in Antiques |
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Sponsored by
Mighty River Power |
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Roland N. Horne graduated BE in Engineering Science in 1972, PhD in 1975 and DSc in 1986, all from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is now the Thomas Davies Barrow Professor of Earth Sciences in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University, and Director of the Stanford Geothermal Program. He was formerly the Chairman of the Department of Petroleum Engineering at Stanford from 1995 to 2006. He is best known for his work in well test interpretation, production optimization, and tracer analysis of fractured geothermal reservoirs. So far in his academic career he has supervised the graduate research of 34 PhDs, and 95 research MS students. In 2000 he received the Lester C. Uren Award from Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) for distinguished achievement in the technology of petroleum engineering by a member who made the contribution before age 45. Horne was elected a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2002 and in 2005 the SPE awarded him the John Franklin Carll Award, which recognizes contributions of technical application and professionalism in petroleum development and recovery. In 2007 he was designated an Honorary Member of SPE. Horne is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Geothermal Association, and has served as adviser to Texas A&M University, University of Auckland, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, and China University of Petroleum. |
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Dr. Rick G. Allis
Utah Geological Survey
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| Retrospective and Prospective Views of Wairakei Field Development: 50 Years and Counting |
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Contact Energy |
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Rick Allis has spent over 30 years working on geothermal and other traditional energy resources. After graduating in 1977 from the University of Toronto, Canada, with a Ph.D. in geophysics, he joined the DSIR at its Wairakei Research Centre. Here he worked on a broad range of geothermal resource assessments, both within the Taupo Volcanic Zone, and around the Pacific margin. One focus of his research was the response of Wairakei Field to development. In 1990 he moved to the Lower Hutt office of what later became the GNS Science, and since 1997 he has been based in Salt Lake City Utah. His present position is Director of the Utah Geological Survey. |
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Dr. Patrick Browne
Institute of Earth Sciences and Engineering Aotearoa (IESE)
Auckland, New Zealand |
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| Wairakei: A Natural Geochemical Laboratory |
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Patrick Browne studies active and extinct geothermal systems. His main interests are the way hot water and steam react with rocks and the processes that cause these fluids to deposit secondary (hydrothermal) minerals. By studying these minerals he seeks to learn how geothermal systems change over time, in effect viewing them as large, open natural laboratories.
Patrick graduated BSc (Hons) in geology at the University fo Cape Town a long time ago and also has an MSc in geochemistry from the University of Leeds. He received his doctorate in geology at Victoria University of Welliington with a thesis about the subsurface hydrothermal alteration at the Broadland-Ohaaki geothermal system.
Patrick worked at the NZ Geological Survery, DSIR, in Lower Hutt for several years-a place he remembers fondly- before joining the newly established Geothermal Institute at the University of Auckland where he was fortunate to help teach many fine students over 25 years or so. He has held visiting appointments at the Universities of California (Riverside), Utah, Indiana, New Mexico, New Mexico Tech, and the United Nations University in Iceland. |
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