IADC Geothermal Drilling 2025 Conference & Exhibition

Join the IADC Geothermal Drilling Conference & Exhibition, the premier event in the geothermal drilling industry, to be at the forefront of the future of energy. This conference will focus on Geothermal Upstream, which includes subsurface, drilling, production, completions, regulatory environment, and associated topics.

As a participant, you will gain insights into relevant business and ownership models, contracting and procurement strategies, and supply chains. The conference will showcase groundbreaking technologies and techniques with the potential to revolutionize the geothermal industry and the entire energy sector.

Our expertise in providing definitions and guidelines for the Petroleum Upstream makes us ideally positioned to establish a vocabulary, terms, and standards within the geothermal industry.

Don’t miss this opportunity to shape a more reliable and clean future for the energy industry. By joining the IADC Geothermal Drilling Conference & Exhibition, you will not only have a platform to discuss the developments in the geothermal upstream and the issues to be addressed, but also contribute to the advancement of the geothermal drilling sector.

Instead of the traditional Call for Abstracts, the Committee would like to invite members to share problems or challenges they face. This collaborative approach will allow us to identify the most pressing issues in the geothermal drilling industry and work together to find innovative solutions. The conference program committee members will identify the speakers who will address the selected challenges to ensure maximum value for attendees.

If the companies or individuals submitting the challenges have suggestions for speakers, including from their own company, they are welcome to share them with the Committee. The deadline for submissions is 1 October 2024.

Suggested categories for challenges:

• Market Outlook: e.g. market size and growth, and what will it take for the industry to make a step change in growth.
• Technological advances: e.g. accelerated deployment of new technologies, improvements in the metallurgy field, non-metallic casing & tubing, ceramics, high temperature batteries, evolution of drilling bit cutters.
• Technological challenges: e.g. managing heat at surface, corrosion, drill bits, measurement tools, high temperature completions, drill pipes, ROP challenges in volcanic rocks, MPD in geothermal drilling.
• Rigs for geothermal drilling: e.g. special designs for geothermal drilling, demand/availability, and developments.
• Regulatory aspects: e.g. lack of licensing systems, lack of clearly set requirements for geothermal wells, uncertainty in standards to apply, variety of terms and definitions in different jurisdictions.
• Contracting and procurement strategies in geothermal drilling: e.g. lower risks and rewards than in oil and gas may call for different contracting strategies.
• Funding and investment: e.g. perspectives of banks, tools for potential investors to estimate geothermal projects’ potential.
• Economic feasibility: e.g. how can geothermal wells be profitable and what is the drilling industry’s role in increasing geothermal well cost predictability, decreasing the well construction time, and optimizing costs.
• Trade organizations: such as IGA, EGEC, Geothermal Rising, IOGP, and IADC—What initiatives have they taken in the geothermal area, and what do they each see as their role in the geothermal industry?
• Well Control: in geothermal energy development: e.g. differences and similarities with the petroleum industry. How will training curricula and certifications have to be adapted? Are Well Control organizations addressing this?
• Geothermal training and education for drilling contractors and suppliers: What curricula need to be developed and adapted, and how are academia and professional training organizations addressing these needs?
• Attracting talent: e.g. Does geothermal drilling suffer from the negative image of the oil and gas drilling industry, preventing it from attracting young professionals? What can drilling contractors do to change the perception and position themselves as a green and innovative energy sector?

Please note that these are just suggestions. If you have other challenges, please feel free to submit. We value your input and look forward to receiving a diverse set of challenges that will contribute to the richness of our conference discussions. We will invite experts, companies, and organizations that could provide the best solutions and ideas.

Please note that we will not be able to accept all challenges, and the selection will remain at the Committee’s discretion. We look forward to your participation as we take this novel approach to setting a relevant and timely conference agenda.

Example from another IADC Conference:

Problem/Challenge
Alarm systems serve a critical role in upstream oil and gas operations by continuously monitoring field and equipment conditions and detecting abnormalities that may necessitate intervention. They provide visual and auditory alerts to notify situations requiring action, reducing the burden of manually monitoring numerous equipment conditions and process variables.

Solutions considered/tried
IOGP’s Competency and Training Subcommittee has commissioned a study to look at the lessons learned from the nuclear industry in alarm management and how they could be applicable for upstream oil and gas operations.

Suggested speaker
The presentation from IOGP will focus on insights and practical recommendations to enhance situational awareness during well operations and early detection of well events by identifying requirements, methods, and recommended practices from the nuclear industry.

For more information contact IADC at +31(0) 24.675.2252, email: europe@iadc.org

Submission deadline – 1 October 2024.