State-of-the-Art Geothermal Well Drilling Case Studies

Dan Scott retired from Baker Hughes after 47 years in the research, development and implementation of drilling technology. He has a BS in Metallurgical Engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology. During his career he served in several technical and management rolls and managed several joint projects with customers and leading carbide and diamond vendors. He traveled worldwide to observe and conduct testing of new drilling tools and innovative carbide insets and PDC technology. He has 180 patents and has authored 60 publications, and received numerous recognition and awards: Fellow in ASM, Silver Paten Award from ASME, Distinguished Member of SPE, Drilling Engineer of the year from SPE, Innovative Thinker from World Oil, Inventor of the year from the Year from the Texas Bar Association Intellectual Property Division, Lifetimes Technical Achievement Award from the Chairman of Baker Hughes, IADC service Award, ad was recognized by his Alma Mater for Outstanding Professional Career. He served on over 50 technical program committee including 27 IADC SPE Drilling Conferences. Sam Abraham has 30 years’ experience in the drilling industry, mainly in exploration and production wells in Indonesia followed by 20 years in the geothermal industry in numerous countries. Sam has worked as Senior Project Manager with various private companies in directing geothermal field operations including drilling, especially on remote drilling and start up projects, mainly with deep high temperature geothermal wells in New Zealand, USA, and Kenya, including big bore and standard size completion. Sam has deep knowledge of well design, preparing drilling programs and well cost estimates, HSE policy implementation, contract management, permitting and logistics, drilling project management and audits. Sam is technical advisor of the LBNL-SNL research projects for the Department of Energy and the International Geothermal Association. He served as a Geothermal Technical Consultant for the World Bank and has published over 20 technical papers including case studies.

1. Geothermal background
2. North America
3. Asia
4. Latin America
5. Australia and New Zealand
6. Europe
7. Africa
8. Forge doe research site
9. Cementing in geothermal wells
10. Drilling fluids in geothermal wells
11. Lost circulation in geothermal wells
12. University and industry research
13. Crystal ball