Consultancies

Geothermal Development Company founded The Geothermal Centre of Excellence (GCE) as a response to an existing regional skills gap in the geothermal energy sub-sector. Through the Centre, GDC offers consultancies in the following areas:

Scope of Consultancies

• 1. Laboratory Services

  • Geochemical analysis; Elemental analysis of water, soils and analysis of gas samples
  • XRD analysis; Soil and rock sample analysis
  • XRF analysis; Soil and rock sample analysis
  • Mineralogy; Thin section analysis of rocks, sample cuttings and core samples

• 2. Surface Exploration Studies

  • Geological exploration; Lithological, thermal manifestations and structural mapping
  • Heat loss surveys; Shallow hole temperature surveys, temperature gradient hole drilling and surveys
  • Environmental and Socio-economic Baseline Studies and Environment and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) and Audit studies
  • Geochemical exploration; Radon and carbon dioxide soil gas survey, sampling, and analysis of surface fluid discharges of interest, sampling and analysis of fumarole gases and steam condensates.
  • Geophysical exploration; MT/TEM, Gravity, Magnetics, and passive seismic surveys

• 3. Well Siting Services

  • Data interpretation, integration, and conceptual modeling

• 4. Drilling & Infrastructure Services

  • Well design services
  • Drilling supervision services
  • Shallow water borehole drilling
  • Cementing services
  • Well work-over services/ Well quenching services
  • Air drilling services
  • Deep geothermal well drilling
  • Directional drilling services
  • Fishing services
  • Well stimulation services
  • Borehole geology
  • Rig move services
  • Well pads preparation
  • Design and construction of water reticulation system
  • Design and construction of access roads
  • Design and construction of fluid recirculation ponds

• 5. Reservoir/Management Services

  • Geothermal well logging: Pressure, temperature and spinner measurements, Static Formation Temperature Tests (SFTT), Completion test (Step rate injection & pressure decay), Well stimulation, Well discharge equipment design & Well discharge testing, Measurement tools calibration.
  • Reservoir science: Reservoir Monitoring & management, Reservoir modeling and simulation, Scale management.

• 6. Direct Utilization

  • Assessment of Direct Use potential; Assessing the business case for Direct Use applications; Design of direct use systems.

• 7. Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) & Audit studies

  • Baseline environment and socio-economic studies
  • ESIA reporting, Stakeholder Engagement Frameworks, project licensing and environmental and social monitoring and management plans

• 8. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)

  • SEA studies and reporting

• 9. Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) Studies

  • Development of a policy framework

• 10. Capacity Building

  • Competency training, on the job training & hands on training in the entire value chain of geothermal development.