Operations Director

Peter joined the company in 1986, following six years at the Camborne School of Mines HDR project, where he was a well testing and reservoir engineer. He has thirty years experience in geothermal engineering and hydrogeological testing. He has worked on geothermal developments in the USA, Europe and Asia-Pacific, undertaking due diligence, well testing, reservoir evaluation and project planning. He was Geothermal Technical Coordinator for the European Commission from 1997 to 2000 and remains on the Commission’s panel of experts for project evaluations. He is also a Director of Geothermal Engineering Limited which is developing the first geothermal power project in the UK.

Between 1989 and 1997 Peter was attached to the deep site invest igation programmes undertaken by UK Nirex at Sellafield and Dounreay, initially as Hydrogeological Testing Specialist to the data acquisition group and, later, as part of the interpretation team and overview group. He was also Science Design Manager for the planned first phase of the Rock Characterisation Facility at Sellafield.

Peter holds a BSc in Mining Engineering (1980) from the Camborne School of Mines and qualified as a Chartered Engineer.