Past Presentation - Geothermal Wells

Speaker: 

Mark Macdonald - Lloyd Warwick

Presentation synopsis:

The presentation will cover the background and development of geothermal resources for power generation. This will be followed up with an overview of the risks/challenges encountered when drilling geothermal wells. There will be a brief consideration of important aspects with respect to the production and workover of geothermal wells prior to discussing some of the loss events sustained either during drilling or production operations.

Speaker Bio:

Mark graduated from the University of Dundee in 2003 with a Master’s degree in Electronic Engineering. He worked as a Research Engineer prior to moving into the Oil & Gas industry in 2005. Mark worked as a Measurement / Logging While Drilling (M/LWD) engineer for Pathfinder Energy Services (now a Schlumberger company). During his time at Pathfinder, he worked on many jack-up and semi-submersible rigs during drilling operations throughout the Dutch and UK sectors of the North Sea, as well as onshore Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK. He has experience of drilling conventional oil and gas wells, high pressure high temperature (HPHT) wells and geothermal wells.

In 2009, Mark began his loss adjusting career in London with Matthews Daniel. Given his background and in-depth knowledge of drilling operations, he mainly focused on the handling of well control claims, both onshore and offshore and on a worldwide basis. He also gained knowledge of the London insurance market and of policy wordings associated with Control of Well and other Upstream Energy risks.

In 2012, Mark moved to Singapore with Matthews Daniel. During his time in Singapore, Mark was involved in a number of complex well control claims in the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, Mark handled many Upstream Energy claims (PD, CAR, TPL) across Asia.

In February 2018, Mark returned to London to join Braemar Technical Services (now AqualisBraemar). In this role he continued to handle a variety of Upstream & Midstream Energy claims in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Mark subsequently joined McLarens in January 2020 before transferring to Lloyd Warwick International (LWI) in June 2020 following McLarens acquisition of LWI.

Slides from this meeting are now available within the members area of the OPERA website.