Geothermal South America

Paetoro worked with Getech from 2021 to early 2023 on a variety of geothermal favourability mapping exercises. One of these was looking at southern South America, and that work is summarised in "Geothermal favourability mapping with technical and commercial integration" in GRC Transactions volume 45 pages 1772 to 1800.

Favourability mapping allows the possibility of combining geoscience, environmental, social, market, and infrastructure mapping elements to deduce where geothermal resource and market best converge to optimise commercial development. The attraction of South America is that it has such a diversity of good geothermal resource, from the hot volcanism of the Andean Chain, to the deep foreland basins to the east - where oil and gas production has often generated a good subsurface database. But even further away from the Andes, large aquifers and radiothermal granite bodies provide lots of potential for the heat-thirsty industries of one of the most rapidly growing areas of the globe. Paetoro continues to work with others, including GEN on the Andean foreland oil and gas well co-production & repurposing proposition, to bring attention to the undoubted geothermal potential of this region.

Also check out the geothermal home page for some of the other things Paetoro is up to in the geothermal arena