NZ Geothermal Week Official Opening and Public Seminar
Mon, 26 Jul
|Great Lake Centre
This is the official opening of NZ Geothermal Week. The seminar will explore the past, present and future of the geothermal industry in the Taupo region. Join us to hear speakers from Contact, GNS and MB Century


Time & Location
26 Jul 2021, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Great Lake Centre, 5 Story Place, Taupō 3330, New Zealand
About the Event
This is the official opening of NZ Geothermal Week. The seminar will explore the past, present and future of the geothermal industry in the Taupo region. Join us to hear speakers from Contact, GNS and MB Century:
Dr. Katie McLean
Reservoir Engineer, Contact Energy, Vice President NZGA
Katie is currently a reservoir engineer working for Contact Energy at Wairakei, New Zealand’s oldest geothermal power station. She is an engineer and a geologist by training, with an interest in renewable energy, and so naturally made the move to New Zealand to work in the geothermal industry. Katie has a PhD in geothermal well testing from the University of Auckland. She has published papers on a range of reservoir engineering topics, and more recently on the subject of carbon emissions from geothermal. She has co-authored a textbook on geothermal well testing with Dr Sadiq Zarrouk, of the Geothermal Institute at the University…