This page contains a selection of geothermal-related publications and extended abstracts.

Bendall, B., Huddlestone-Holmes, C. and Goldstein, B. (2013). 'The current status of geothermal projects in Australia – a national review'.   Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, February 11-13, 2013 SGP-TR-198

Budd, A.R. and Gerner, E.J. (2015). 'Externalities are the Dominant Cause of Faltering in Australian Geothermal Energy Development'. Proceedings of the World Geothermal Congress 2015 Melbourne, Australia, 19-25 April 2015.

Goldstein, B., Bendall, B., Long, A. and Budd, A. (2011). 'Converting Geothermal Plays to Projects in Australia.  Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering Stanford University, Stanford, California, January 31 - February 2, 2011 SGP-TR-191

Goldstein, B.A., Hill, A.J., Budd, A.R., Holgate, F.L. and Malavazos, M (2008). 'The National Outlook – Australia’s Hot Rocks'. In: Gurgenci, H. & Budd, A.R., 2008. 2008/018 - Proceedings of the Sir Mark Oliphant International Frontiers of Science Australia Geothermal Energy Conference. Record 2008/018. Geoscience Australia, Canberra.

Goldstein, B.A., Hill, A.J., Long, A., Budd, A.R., Holgate, F. and Malavazos, M. (2009). 'Hot Rock Geothermal Energy Plays in Australia'.  Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering Stanford University, Stanford, California, February 9-11, 2009, SGP-TR-187

Goldstein, B.A., Hill, A.J. and Long, A. (2009). 'Hot rocks in Australia – National overview'. ASEG Extended Abstracts 2009: 20th Geophysical Conference: pp. 1-19.

Huddlestone-Holmes, C.R., Budd, A., Gurgenci, H., Hand, M., Leary, P., Moghtaderi, B., Rawling, T. and Regenauer-Lieb, K. (2012).  'Research priorities for the Australian geothermal industry'. Proceedings of the  Thirty-Seventh Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering Stanford University, Stanford, California, January 30 - February 1, 201 SGP-TR-194.

Humphreys, B.E., Hogarth, R., and Lowe, C. (2013). 'Australia's first operating Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) power plant'. Sustainable Engineering Society (SENG) 2013 conference, Canberra, Australia, September 18 -20 2013.  

Long, A., Goldstein, B., Hill, A., Bendall, B., Malavazos, M. and Budd, A. (2010). /Australian Geothermal Industry Advances/. Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering Stanford University, Stanford, California, February 1-3, 2010 SGP-TR-188.

Long, A., Goldstein, B.A., Hill, A. and Budd, A. (2010). 'Review of Australian Geothermal Activities and Research' Proceedings of the World Geothermal Congress 2010 Bali, Indonesia, 25-29 April 2010.

Dowd, AM., Boughen, N., Ashworth, P. and Carr-Cornish, S. (2011). 'Geothermal technology in Australia: Investigating social acceptance'. Energy Policy, 39 (10): 6301 – 6307.

Goldstein, B.A., Malavazos, M., Hayter, B., Long, A. and Bendall, B. (2012). 'Regulatory Nirvana for geothermal resource development'.  Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering Stanford University, Stanford, California, January 30 - February 1, 2012 SGP-TR-194

Goldstein, B.A., Malavazos, M., Long, A., Bendall, B., Hill, A. and Alexander, E. (2010). 'The regulator’s perspective – Best practice activity approval processes for EGS projects (including induced seismicity)'.  Proceedings of the Thirty-fifth Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering Stanford University, Stanford, California, February 1-3, 2010 SGP-TR-188.

Gibson, H., Stüwe, K., Seikel, R., FitzGerald, D., Calcagno, P., Guillen, A. and McInerney, P. (2008). 'Forward Prediction of Temperature Distribution Direct From 3D Geology Models'. In: Gurgenci, H. & Budd, A.R., 2008. 2008/018 - Proceedings of the Sir Mark Oliphant International Frontiers of Science Australia Geothermal Energy Conference. Record 2008/018. Geoscience Australia, Canberra.    

Holgate, F.L. (2005).  'Exploration and Evaluation of the Australian Geothermal Resource'. Unpublished PhD thesis, Australian National University: Canberra. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/10861

Jones, T., Kirkby, A.L., Gerner, E. & Weber, R., (2011). 'Heat Flow Determinations for the Australian Continent: Release 2'. Record 2011/028. Geoscience Australia, Canberra.

Kirkby, A.L. & Gerner, E.J., (2013). 'Heat Flow Determinations for the Australian Continent: Release 5'. Record 2013/034. Geoscience Australia, Canberra.

Radke, B., (2009). 'Hydrocarbon and Geothermal Prospectivity of Sedimentary Basins in Central Australia; Warburton, Cooper, Pedirka, Galilee, Simpson and Eromanga Basins'. Record 2009/025. Geoscience Australia, Canberra.

Siekel, R., Stuwe, K., Gibson, H., Bendall, B., McAllister, L., Reid, P. and Budd, A. (2009). 'Forward prediction of spatial temperature variation from 3D geology models'.  ASEG Extended Abstracts, 2009 (1): 1 – 9. DOI: 10.1071/ASEG2009ab117

Weber, R., Kirkby, A.L. & Gerner, E., (2011). 'Heat Flow Determinations for the Australian Continent: Release 3'. Record 2011/030. Geoscience Australia, Canberra.

Albaric, J., Langet, N., Hasting, M., Lecomte, I., Oye, V., Iranpour, K., Messellier, M., Llanos, E.M. and P. Reid, P. (2012) 'The Importance of Coupling Passive and Active Seismic Methods in Geothermal Fields - A Case Study at Paralana', Australia. 74th EAGE Conference and Exhibition incorporating EUROPEC 2012  04 June 2012 DOI: 10.3997/2214-4609.20148209

Albaric, J., Oye, V., Hasting, M., Messellier, M., and Reid, P. (2013). 'Induced Seismicity Patterns in the Paralana Geothermal Reservoir, South Australia'. 4th EAGE Passive Seismic Workshop, 17 March 2013 DOI: 10.3997/2214-4609.20142349

Albaric, J., Oye, V., Langet, N., Hasting, M., Lecomte, I., Iranpour, K., Messellier, M.,  M., Llanos, E.M. and Reid, P. (2014).  'Monitoring of induced seismicity during the first geothermal reservoir stimulation at Paralana, Australia'.  Geothermics, 52: 120 -131.

Asanuma, H., Kumano, Y., Izumi, T., Soma, N., Kaieda, H., Tezuka, K., Wyborn, D. and Niitsuma, H. (2004). 'Passive seismic monitoring of a stimulation of HDR geothermal reservoir at Cooper Basin, Australia'. SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2004: 556-559. doi: 10.1190/1.1845264

Baisch, S., Weidler, R., Vörös, R., Wyborn D. and De Graaf, L. (2006).  'Induced Seismicity during the Stimulation of a Geothermal HFR Reservoir in the Cooper Basin, Australia'.  Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 96 (6): 2242 – 2256. DOI: 10.1785/0120050255

Baisch, S., Vörös, R., Weidler, R. and Wyborn, D. (2009).  'Investigation of Fault Mechanisms during Geothermal Reservoir Stimulation Experiments in the Cooper Basin, Australia'. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 99:148-158; DOI: 10.1785/0120080055.

Baisch, S., Rothert, E., Stang, H.,  Vörös, R.,  Koch, C. and McMahon, A. (2015).  'Continued Geothermal Reservoir Stimulation Experiments in the Cooper Basin (Australia)'. Published online before print January 2015, DOI: 10.1785/0120140208. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America January 2015

Bendall, B., Love, D., Hough, P., Malavazos, M., Long, A. and Pepicelli, D. (2012). 'Towards understanding induced seismicity'.  Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering Stanford University, Stanford, California, January 30 - February 1, 2012 SGP-TR-194

Hasting, M., Albaric, J., Oye, V., Reid, P.,  Messellier, M.,  M., Llanos, E.M. Malin, P., Shalev, E., Hogg, M., Alvarez, M., Walter, C., Boese, C., and Voss, N. (2011).  'Real-time induced seismicity monitoring during wellbore stimulation at Paralana 2 South Australia'. Proceedings of the New Zealand geothermal workshop 2011, Auckland New Zealand, November 21 – 23, 2011.

McMahon, A. and Baisch, S. (2015). 'Seismicity Associated with the Stimulation of the Enhanced Geothermal System at Habanero, Australia'. Proceedings of the World Geothermal Congress 2015 Melbourne, Australia, 19-24 April 2015.

Oye, V., Langet, N., Hasting, M., Lecomte, I., Messeiller, M. and Reid, P. (2012). 'Microseismic monitoring of the hydraulic stimulation at the Paralana enhanced geothermal system, South Australia'. First Break, 30 (7): 91 – 95.

Riffault, J., Dempsey, D., Archer, R., Kelkar, S. and Karra, S. (2016). 'Understanding Poroelastic Stressing and Induced Seismicity with a Stochastic/ Deterministic Model: an Application to an EGS Stimulation at Paralana, South Australia', 2011. Proceedings of the 41st Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering Stanford University, Stanford, California, February 22-24, 2016, 2016SGP-TR-209.

Kirkby, A.,  Heinson, G.S., Holford, S. and Thiel, S. (2015).  'Mapping fractures using 1D anisotropic modelling of magnetotelluric data: a case study from the Otway Basin, Victoria, Australia'. Geophys. J. Int., 201 (3): 1961-1976. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggv116

MacFarlane, J., Thiel, S., Pek, J., Peacock, J. and Heinson, G. (2014). 'Characterisation of induced fracture networks within an Enhanced Geothermal System using anisotropic electromagnetic modelling'. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 288: 1–7.

MacFarlane, J., Pek, J., Thiel, S., Heinson, G. and Peacock, J., (2013). 'Anisotropic forward modelling of geothermal fluid using 2-dimensional electrical anisotropy'. ASEG Extended Abstracts 2013: 23rd Geophysical Conference: pp. 1-3.

Peacock, J.R., Thiel, S.,  and Heinson, G.S. (2012). 'Magnetotelluric monitoring of a fluid injection: Example from an Enhanced Geothermal System'. Geophysical Research Letters, 21: September 2012.  DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053080.

Peacock, J.R., Thiel, S., Heinson, G.S. and Reid, P. (2013).  'Time-lapse magnetotelluric monitoring of an Enhanced Geothermal System'. Geophysics, 78 (3) DOI:10.1190/geo2012-0275.1

Peacock, J.R. (2012). 'Magnetotelluric monitoring'.  Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Adelaide. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/96465.

Rosas-Carbajal, M., Linde, N., Peacock, J., Zyserman, F.I., Kalscheuer, T. and Thiel, S. (2015). 'Probabilistic 3-D time-lapse inversion of magnetotelluric data: application to an Enhanced Geothermal System'. Geophys. J. Int., 203 (3): 1946-1960. DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggv406

Soeffky, P., Thiel, S., Peacock, J. and Krieger, L. (2013). 'Crustal fluid pathways imaged using magnetotellurics - implications for the South Australian heat flow anomaly'. ASEG Extended Abstracts 2013, 1: 1 – 3.  DOI: 10.1071/ASEG2013ab137.

Thiel, S., Peacock, J., Heinson, G., Hatch, M. and Reid, P. (2012). 'Fracture delineation and monitoring of geothermal and coal seam gas areas using magnetotellurics'.  ASEG Extended Abstracts 2012, 1: 1 – 3. DOI: 10.1071/ASEG2012ab411

Thiel, S., Lemma, Y. and Peacock, J. (2013). 'Magnetotelluric characterisation of the Habanero geothermal EGS project - initial results on fluid injection monitoring and regional geology'. ASEG Extended Abstracts 2013, 1: 1 – 2. DOI: 10.1071/ASEG2013ab109

Ayling, B.F., Hogarth, R.A. and Rose, P.E. (2015). 'Tracer testing at the Habanero EGS site, central Australia'. Geothermics, In Press. DOI:10.1016/j.geothermics.2015.03.008

Bendall, B., Hogarth, R., Holl, H., McMahon, A., Larking, A. and Reid, P. (2014). 'Australian Experiences in EGS Permeability Enhancement – A Review of 3 Case Studies'.  Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering Stanford University, Stanford, California, February 24-26, 2014 SGP-TR-202

Hand, M., Bedrikovetski, P., Huddlestone-Holmes, C., Badalyan, A., You, Z., Brautigan, D., Dillinger, A., Carageorgos, T., Abul Khair, H., Bendall, B. and Matthews, C. (2015).  'Case Study: Reservoir quality in sedimentary geothermal settings in Australia'. Proceedings of the Fourtieth Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering Stanford University, Stanford, California, January 26-28, 2015, SGP-TR-204

Hogarth, R. and Bour, D. (2015). 'Flow performance of the Habanero EGS Closed loop system'. Proceedings World Geothermal Congress 2015 Melbourne, Australia 19 – 25 April 2015.

Kuncoro, G.B. (2015). 'Fluid-rock interaction studies on an Enhanced Geothermal System in the Cooper Basin, South Australia'.  Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Adelaide. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/92215

Kuncoro, G., Ngothai, Y., O’Neill, B.O., Pring, A. and Brugger, J. (2009). 'A preliminary study of Fluid-rock interactions of the Hot Fractured Rock geothermal system in the Cooper Basin, South Australia'. In: Budd, A.R. & Gurgenci, H., 2009. Proceedings of the 2nd Australian Geothermal Energy Conference, Brisbane, 11-13 November 2009. Record 2009/035. Geoscience Australia, Canberra.

Alghalandis, Y.F., Dowd, P.A. and Xu, C (2013). 'The RANSAC Method for Generating Fracture Networks from Micro-seismic Events'. Mathematical Geosciences, 45 (2): 207-224.

Holl, H., and Barton, C. (2015).  'Habanero Field- Structure and State of Stress'. Proceedings World Geothermal Congress 2015, Melbourne, Australia 19 – 25 April 2015.

Llanos, E.M., Zarrouk, S.J. and Hogarth, R.A. (2015). 'Numerical model of the Habanero geothermal reservoir, Australia'.  Geothermics, 53: 308–319. DOI: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2014.07.008

Xu, C., Dowd, P. and Li, Q. (2016).' Carbon sequestration potential of the Habanero reservoir when carbon dioxide is used as the heat exchange fluid'.  Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 8(1): 50–59. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrmge.2015.05.003

Xu, C., Dowd, P. and Tian, Z.F. (2015). 'A simplified coupled hydro-thermal model for Enhanced Geothermal Systems'. Applied Energy, 140:135–145. DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.11.050

Xu, C., Dowd, P. and Tian, Z.F. (2015). 'Simulation of Heat Extraction for the Habanero 1 and 3 Doublet Using a Conditioned Discrete Fracture Network Model'. Proceedings World Geothermal Congress 2015 Melbourne, Australia, 19-25 April 2015

Varney, J. (2015). 'Optimisation of Geothermal Systems'.  Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Adelaide.

Varney, J. and Bean, N. (2012). 'Performance of air-cooled organic Rankine cycle plants using temperature distributions from arid parts of South Australia'.  Proceedings of the 2012 Australian Geothermal Energy Conference, 2012 / C. Huddlestone-Holmes, E. Gerner (eds.):.210-217

Varney, J. and Bean, N. (2013).  'Using geothermal energy to preheat feedwater in a traditional steam power plant'. Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering Stanford University, Stanford, California, February 11-13, 2013 SGP-TR-198

De Moel, M., Bach, P.M., Bouazza, A., Singh, R.M. and Sun, J.O.  (2010). 'Technological advances and applications of geothermal energy pile foundations and their feasibility in Australia'. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 14 (9): 2683 – 2696.

Poulet, T., Schaubs, P., Rachadonda, P.K., Douglas, G., Lester, D., Metcalfe, G., Sheldon, H.,Tung, R., Reid, L., Regenauer-Lieb, K. and Trefry, M., (2015). 'The CSIRO Groundwater Cooling Project – Cooling Australia’s Latest Supercomputer with Groundwater'. Proceedings World Geothermal Congress 2015 Melbourne, Australia 19 – 25 April 2015.

Schilling, O., Sheldon, H.A., Reid, L.B. and Corbel, S. (2013).  'Hydrothermal models of the Perth metropolitan area, Western Australia: implications for geothermal energy'. Hydrogeology Journal, 21 (3): 605-621.