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GDC SERVICES

Equipment Leasing

GDC services include providing consultancy and equipment leases for drilling and exploration.

GDC equipment to be leased include:

  • Drilling equipment, Well completion equipment, scientific exploratory work equipment
  • Reservoir management equipment
  • Geothermal well testing equipment
  • Geo-Science and GIS laboratories
  • Environmental monitoring and management equipment

Consultancies

Geothermal Development Company founded The Geothermal Centre of Excellence (GCE) as a response to an existing regional skills gap in the geothermal energy sub-sector. Through the Centre, GDC offers consultancies in the following areas:

  • Geochemical analysis; Elemental analysis of water, soils and analysis of gas samples
  • XRD analysis; Soil and rock sample analysis
  • XRF analysis; Soil and rock sample analysis
  • Mineralogy; Thin section analysis of rocks, sample cuttings and core samples
  • Geological exploration; Lithological, thermal manifestations and structural mapping
  • Heat loss surveys; Shallow hole temperature surveys, temperature gradient hole drilling and surveys
  • Environmental and Socio-economic Baseline Studies and Environment and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) and Audit studies
  • Geochemical exploration; Radon and carbon dioxide soil gas survey, sampling, and analysis of surface fluid discharges of interest, sampling and analysis of fumarole gases and steam condensates.
  • Geophysical exploration; MT/TEM, Gravity, Magnetics, and passive seismic surveys
  • Data interpretation, integration, and conceptual modeling
  • Well design services
  • Drilling supervision services
  • Shallow water borehole drilling
  • Cementing services
  • Well work-over services/ Well quenching services
  • Air drilling services
  • Deep geothermal well drilling
  • Directional drilling services
  • Fishing services
  • Well stimulation services
  • Borehole geology
  • Rig move services
  • Well pads preparation
  • Design and construction of water reticulation system
  • Design and construction of access roads
  • Design and construction of fluid recirculation ponds
  • Geothermal well logging: Pressure, temperature and spinner measurements, Static Formation Temperature Tests (SFTT), Completion test (Step rate injection & pressure decay), Well stimulation, Well discharge equipment design & Well discharge testing, Measurement tools calibration.
  • Reservoir science: Reservoir Monitoring & management, Reservoir modeling and simulation, Scale management.
  • Assessment of Direct Use potential; Assessing the business case for Direct Use applications; Design of direct use systems.
  • Baseline environment and socio-economic studies
  • ESIA reporting, Stakeholder Engagement Frameworks, project licensing and environmental and social monitoring and management plans
  • SEA studies and reporting
  • Development of a policy framework
  • Competency training, on the job training & hands on training in the entire value chain of geothermal development.

For more information

Contact us through:
info@gdc.co.ke
or
Dr. Robert Ogutu,
Chief Officer - GCE
rogutu@gdc.co.ke

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