Thursday, November 29, 2012

Kenya:

GRC Board Member Gives Public lecture on Geothermal Well Testing (Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology)

Jim Lovekin making a presentation (Courtesy Jomo
Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology)
GRC Board member James W. Lovekin (PDF), gave a lecture Monday at the Department of Biomechanical and Environmental Engineering at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Nairobi. Hosted by Prof. Wambua Kaluli, the lecture emphasized on the need for the country to utilize the potential in geothermal energy. The Topic presented was “Overview of Geothermal Well Testing and Numerical Modeling.”

Jim is the fields operation manager of GeothermEx Incoporated (A Schlumberger Company). He has been involved in geothermal research and during the lecture encouraged more researchers to venture into geothermal energy utilization.