Director: Dr. Dave Waters
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New horizons
In energy and resource it is a time for courage, boldness, and new directions. Paetoro is about that - looking to new horizons as we all attempt to navigate a time of unprecedented challenge and change. Paetoro is me. I'm it. The business model is to remain so, to provide versatility and independence. I form a geoscience consultancy working with clients to address subsurface questions, but I also draw on a wide network of colleagues and interdisciplinary experts, whom I have had the good fortune to work with over the years. Paetoro Flier Paetoro Summary |
History & activity
Paetoro formed as a company in February 2016 and is based in London. I worked previously for 25 years mainly in the oil and gas industry. Past employers included Enterprise, Shell, RWE, E.ON, Endeavour, and Idemitsu. Experience involved a wide range of exploration and development opportunities, both in senior technical professional and team leadership roles. Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America were focus areas. Structural geology, basin modelling, resource volumetrics and risking, and regional geoscience review have always been key interests.
Soon after company formation, structural complexity remained a focus. Fault seal and fractured basement opportunities led to work in North Africa and Europe. Roles with Petrostars, Ardent, and Delonex fell into this category through 2017 to 2020. Paetoro works with Titus Murray utilising specialist fault seal software to address those questions. New technologies are always of interest and through 2017 to 2020 Paetoro worked with Adrok Ltd testing new electromagnetic exploration methods.
Since that time, recognising the increasing urgency to significantly downshift fossil fuel combustion, Paetoro emphasis has evolved. A background study on UK Permo-Triassic geothermal potential - ongoing since company formation until 2020, was aimed at understanding why geothermal energy was not "taking off" in the UK despite its technical potential. This helped develop a strong interest in low enthalpy geothermal globally. Particularly integrating the geology with commercial aspects at scale.
In 2020 Paetoro helped GeoLogica forge a range of Energy Transition training courses with experts across geothermal, critical minerals, and "geonuclear" topics. Paetoro has also been active in a number of review committees evaluating energy transition proposals, on both sides of the Atlantic.
Since 2021 Paetoro has been working with Getech Group plc to help develop their Heat Seeker product, aimed at upscaling the geothermal energy proposition globally.
Other projects ongoing with collaborating experts, include:
1) The ability of low enthalpy geothermal to contribute to emerging new-technology thermal desalination processes
2) Review of the global REE-U-Th resource, looking to new processing methods and mineral needs of the 21st century renewables and nuclear industries as fossil fuel downshift matures.
Paetoro formed as a company in February 2016 and is based in London. I worked previously for 25 years mainly in the oil and gas industry. Past employers included Enterprise, Shell, RWE, E.ON, Endeavour, and Idemitsu. Experience involved a wide range of exploration and development opportunities, both in senior technical professional and team leadership roles. Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America were focus areas. Structural geology, basin modelling, resource volumetrics and risking, and regional geoscience review have always been key interests.
Soon after company formation, structural complexity remained a focus. Fault seal and fractured basement opportunities led to work in North Africa and Europe. Roles with Petrostars, Ardent, and Delonex fell into this category through 2017 to 2020. Paetoro works with Titus Murray utilising specialist fault seal software to address those questions. New technologies are always of interest and through 2017 to 2020 Paetoro worked with Adrok Ltd testing new electromagnetic exploration methods.
Since that time, recognising the increasing urgency to significantly downshift fossil fuel combustion, Paetoro emphasis has evolved. A background study on UK Permo-Triassic geothermal potential - ongoing since company formation until 2020, was aimed at understanding why geothermal energy was not "taking off" in the UK despite its technical potential. This helped develop a strong interest in low enthalpy geothermal globally. Particularly integrating the geology with commercial aspects at scale.
In 2020 Paetoro helped GeoLogica forge a range of Energy Transition training courses with experts across geothermal, critical minerals, and "geonuclear" topics. Paetoro has also been active in a number of review committees evaluating energy transition proposals, on both sides of the Atlantic.
Since 2021 Paetoro has been working with Getech Group plc to help develop their Heat Seeker product, aimed at upscaling the geothermal energy proposition globally.
Other projects ongoing with collaborating experts, include:
1) The ability of low enthalpy geothermal to contribute to emerging new-technology thermal desalination processes
2) Review of the global REE-U-Th resource, looking to new processing methods and mineral needs of the 21st century renewables and nuclear industries as fossil fuel downshift matures.
A positioning:
Paetoro’s working-hypothesis approach for 21st century energy is a tiered, prioritised approach, with a priority sequence of:
This sequence sees all of the above as having a role to play, though not with equal weighting.
Paetoro's efforts are directed at facilitating 1, 2, and 3 from a subsurface resource perspective.
Paetoro’s working-hypothesis approach for 21st century energy is a tiered, prioritised approach, with a priority sequence of:
- Demand reduction through detailed resource mapping, various urban & district planning routes for transport and buildings, recycling, waste reduction, demand management, and efficiency increases.
- The full suite of renewables acting with various energy storage options and/or long distance transmission options as appropriate - within a context of "the closer the better". Renewables are a fantastic resource but our ability to harvest them is not unlimited. They need to be treated as precious, with realistic, managed expectations.
- New generation nuclear as a backup to assist shortfalls in the above, with serious attention paid to waste treatment and disposal.
- Transition of most ongoing fossil hydrocarbon combustive use to the above with time.
- Careful ongoing non-combustive petrochemical uses of hydrocarbons, budgeted for posterity use.
This sequence sees all of the above as having a role to play, though not with equal weighting.
Paetoro's efforts are directed at facilitating 1, 2, and 3 from a subsurface resource perspective.
Professional Societies
AAPG - American Association of Petroleum Geologists
EAGE - European Association of Geoscientists
GATE - Global Association for Transition Engineering
GRC - Geothermal Rising
GSA - Geological Society of America
GSL - Geological Society of London
IGA - International Geothermal Association
SEG - Society of Economic Geologists
SPE - Society of Petroleum Engineers
AAPG - American Association of Petroleum Geologists
EAGE - European Association of Geoscientists
GATE - Global Association for Transition Engineering
GRC - Geothermal Rising
GSA - Geological Society of America
GSL - Geological Society of London
IGA - International Geothermal Association
SEG - Society of Economic Geologists
SPE - Society of Petroleum Engineers