Retrospective and Prospective Views of the Development of Wairakei Geothermal Field: 50 Years and Counting
- Key words
- Wairakei, development, history, future, technologies
- Location
- Wairakei, New Zealand; Taupo Volcanic Zone
- Conference
- New Zealand Geothermal Workshop
- Year
- 2008
- Session
- Keynote
- Language
- English
Full text
154KB, opens in a new tab
Abstract
Even with 50 years of geothermal power from Wairakei field, the thermal resource is still substantial. If new technologies being deployed by the oil industry today become economic for the geothermal industry in the future, developed fields like Wairakei can be considered as
Copyright 2008, University of Auckland. Readers who download papers from this site should honour the copyright of the original authors, and may not copy or distribute the work further without the permission of the original publisher.