Technology Transfer from Iceland to Kenya During Green Field Study

Abstract

ÍSOR has been working with a privately-owned energy company Olsuswa Energy (OEL) in Kenya in a green field development at the Barrier Volcanic Center in Kenya. ÍSOR has also assisted OEL in the surface exploration studies as a subcontractor, and in choosing the equipment and techniques to be used. During this process, two specialists from the OEL, Francis Njino Kimani, Geologist and Kevin Njau, Volcanologist were trained by ÍSOR’s specialists both in Kenya and Iceland. The OEL experts worked side by side with the Icelandic experts on data collection, data quality evaluation, interpretation, conceptual modelling and resource assessment. The field work, performed by KenGen and supervised by ÍSOR was realized in March 2019 and the final resource report was delivered in July 2019. ÍSOR’s experts participating in the training were; Gylfi Páll Hersir, Finnbogi Óskarsson, Sigurður G. Kristinsson and Helga Tulinius. The duration of the training was with gaps from beginning of March to end of June 2019.