Business View Oceania | September 2020

53 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA SEPTEMBER 2020 GEOTHERMAL ENERGY of Foreign Affairs or by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, this sector increasingly provides services and expertise internationally to clients in Japan, Indonesia, USA, the Philippines, Kenya and Latin America. Prominent firms within the service sector include: MB Century (drilling, well services, steamfield engineering), Western Energy Services (well services), Jacobs (geoscience and engineering), Sequent (reservoir software), Solenis (process chemistry-chemicals), Nalco (water chemicals), GNS Science (geoscience and chemical laboratory), Mitchell Daysh (environmental), MTI (engineering), Dobbie Engineering (process engineering), Thorndon Cook (engineering), AECOM (engineering), Upflow (market intelligence), Glucina & Associates (engineering), Flow State Solutions (reservoir modelling software), ProGen (turbine maintenance) and Auckland University - Geothermal Institute (engineering training). developers, equipment manufacturers/suppliers, and large construction contractors. In contrast, the moderate temperature sector uses low grade geothermal heat for small-scale, residential and commercial applications such as bathing, space heating and water heating. The insulate sector uses the thermal properties of the earth or ground and surface waters to store and transfer heat via heat pumps for residential and commercial customers. The regulatory sector maintains order in the issuance of extraction permits and environmental protection. Over the past 10 years, the NZ geothermal industry has attained sufficient economic mass to support a specialist service industry. The geothermal service sector employs most of the industry’s staff and provides professional & trades training, drilling services, well services, field services, machine/fabrication shops, engineering consulting, reservoir modelling, reservoir software, controls software, construction, regulatory & legal advisors, and scientific research. Sometimes assisted by the Ministry