SDG Short Course I on Exploration and Development of Geothermal Resources is currently underway
SDG Short Course I on Exploration and Development of Geothermal Resources is currently underway at Lake Naivasha, Kenya. The first week of the Short Course, which opened on November 10, was devoted to field work in the surroundings of Lake Bogoria in the Rift Valley. On November 16, the course moved to Lake Naivasha where the participants attend lectures on geoscientific exploration, environmental aspects of geothermal development, drilling, reservoir engineering, utilization, project management and financial considerations. The lectures are complemented by field trips to the nearby Olkaria geothermal fields, laboratories, power plants and other destinations of interest to students of geothermal development. Three days were committed to project work, where the participants were presented with data from both high and low temperature geothermal fields, with the objective of constructing simple conceptual models and siting wells. The Short Course will conclude on November 30.
This short course is part of the new series of short courses held in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in cooperation with KenGen and GDC. The series are a continuation of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) short course series, which ran over the period 2006-2015.
In all, 61 individuals from 16 countries are participating in the Short Course. They come from Cameroon (1), the Comoros (2), Djibouti (4), D.R. Congo (1), Egypt (1), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (3), Madagascar (2), Malawi (2), Nigeria (1), Rwanda (2), Sudan (1), Tanzania (3), Uganda (3), Zambia (2), and the host country Kenya, which has 32 participants.
The participants are passionate about the subjects being conveyed and show a lot of interest during question time. Surely many of them will be have proserous future in geothermal utilisation.