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December 24th,
2002
Fifth Asian Geothermal
Symposium
-Exploration
and Exploitation of Geothermal Resources as Dispersive-type Energy-
First Announcement
to Preliminary Report
to Japanese Version
Dear potential
participants,
Geothermal resource is abundant in Asia and one of the most prospective
energy sources expanded to the future in Asia, as has been proven by
16 % of electricity supply in the Philippines and 4 % of electricity supply
in Indonesia. Geothermal energy is also one of the cleanest energy in
carbon dioxide emission and the promotion of its development will directly
contribute to the global environmental issue in Asia as a center for rapidly
increasing energy demands in the world. The promotion of the direct
use of geothermal energy without power generation will also bring us
the same effect. However, geothermal developments are not straightforwardly
proceeding in Asia except for a few specific countries, probably due to
the lack of technical and economical experiences. One of breakthroughs to
this dilemma is to place a forum for information exchange among Asian countries,
to accelerate international cooperation on technical and economical assistances
and to expand a cooperation network of geothermal developments throughout
Asia.
The Fifth Asian Geothermal Symposium will be held at Kuala Lumpur
in Malaysia. The theme of the symposium is “Exploration and Exploitation
of Geothermal Resources as Dispersive-type Energy” to seek out optimum
geothermal development styles for Asia including off grid-type and/or
dispersive-type geothermal power development in remote islands or mountainous
areas and various direct uses of geothermal energy. Malaysia has not
yet geothermal power plants, but there are potential geothermal areas
and Malaysia is one of the candidates intends to develop geothermal resources
so that a number of potential geothermal participants could join there
and widespread information exchanges and discussions for future geothermal
developments would be expected.
Note that Asian Geothermal Symposium has been annually held since
1998, aiming at information exchange on geothermal resource developments
in Asia and promoting international cooperation. Among past four symposiums,
the earlier three had been held as a side meeting of the Annual Session
of the Coordinating Committee for Geoscience Programmes in East and Southeast
Asia (CCOP), held at Subic in the Philippines, Hanoi in Viet Num and Bangkok
in Thailand, respectively. The fourth symposium was held in Indonesia,
separated from CCOP meeting but coupled with the Open Seminar for Indonesia-Japan
bilateral project “Research Cooperation Project on the Exploration of Small-scale
Geothermal Resources in the Eastern Part of Indonesia (ESSEI)”. The Fifth
Asian Geothermal Symposium will also be independent from the CCOP Annual
Session, successively sponsored by Institute for Geo-Resources and Environment
(GREEN, AIST), while the past four symposiums were sponsored by New Energy
and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). We have pleasure
in extending our cordial invitation to this Symposium, to potential participants
who has keen interests in geothermal development in Asia, and to potential
companies, governmental bodies and research institutes that are working
in researches, developments and utilities on geothermal energy in Asia.
Tetsuro Noda, Dr.
Director,
Institute for Geo-Resources and Environment (GREEN)
National
Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Note-1) The Coordinating
Committee for Geoscience Programmes in East and Southeast Asia (CCOP)
is an inter-governmental organization at Bangkok, Thailand, that promotes
an international research cooperation on geoscience and its application
in East and Southeast Asia, and its eleven member countries are Cambodia,
China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Papua
New Guinea, Singapore and Vietnam in cooperation with support countries
such as Europe, USA and Japan.
■Outline of the Symposium
Main Theme: Exploration and Exploitation of Geothermal Resources
as Dispersive-type Energy
Date: March 25-26, 2003
Venue: The Legend Hotel, 100 Jalan Putra
50350, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Sponsor: Institute for Geo-Resources and Environment (GREEN),
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST),
Japan
Support: Coordinating Committee for Geoscience Programmes in
East and Southeast Asia (CCOP)
Malaysian Energy Centre (MEC), Ministry of Posts,
Energy and Telecommunications, Malaysia
New Energy and Industrial Technology Development
Organization (NEDO), Japan
The Geothermal Research Society of Japan
Sessions: Keynote Addresses, Invited Sessions, Technical Sessions
Field Trip: Tawau geothermal field, Semporna Peninsula, Sabah,
at March 27-28, 2003
Participants: Open to public, 50 persons in plan
■Itinerary (in case of full attend from oversea countries)
March 24 (Mon.) Departure City to Kuala Lumpur, Gathering
at The Legend Hotel
March 25 (Tue.) Fifth Asian Geothermal Symposium (First day),
Reception, The Legend Hotel
March 26 (Wed.) Fifth Asian Geothermal Symposium (Second day),
The Legend Hotel
March 27 (Thu.) Flight from KL to Tawau, Field Trip in the
Tawau geothermal field (First day), Marco Polo Hotel
March 28 (Fri.) Field Trip in the Tawau geothermal field
(Second day), Flight from Tawau to KL, Legend Hotel
March 29 (Sat.) Break-up at Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur to
Destination City
■Registration
Contact Address: Dr. Asahi Hattori
Geothermal Division, Mitsubishi Material Natural
Resources Development Corporation (MRC)
3-21-1 Nihonbashi-Hamacho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0007,
Japan
e-mail: ahattori@mmc.co.jp (E-mail contact is
quite welcome)
Closing Date: February 15, 2003
Registration Form: Fill and send the following form
Full name (Prof., Dr., Mr. or Ms.)
Affiliation
Contact address
E-mail address
Intention to present a paper Yes or not, Oral or Poster
Title of presentation
All the authors’ names
Attendance to field trip Yes or not
Fee: Participant shall pay for travel
and accommodation, 5000Yen for registration and 60,000Yen for field trip
Submission Closing Date: March 5, 2003
Proceedings: Binding drafts will be circulated during the Symposium
and will be printed after the Symposium
■Organizing Committee of the Fifth Asian Geothermal Symposium
Chairman: Hirofumi Muraoka (AIST)
Eizo Yamada (CCOP)
Hassan Ibrahim (MEC)
Sachio Ehara (Kyushu University)
Satoshi Kubo (NEDO)
Hiroshi Takahashi and Asahi Hattori (MRC)
Toshihiro Uchida, Takayuki Sawaki and Kasumi
Yasukawa (AIST)
■Further contact
Please do not hesitate to ask us about Asian Geothermal Symposium
2003
Contact: Takahashi or Hattori (MRC), e-mail: tkhs@mmc.co.jp,
ahattori@mmc.co.jp, Phone: +81-3-3660-0322
Muraoka (AIST), e-mail: hiro-muraoka@aist.go.jp,
Phone: +81-298-61-2403
Fig.
1 A map of Malaysia. KL: Kuala Lumpur, KK: Kota Kinabaru.
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Fig.
2 Photograph of the N50W trending alignment of tufas in the Tawau geothermal
field (Taken by H. Muraoka, November 13, 2000).
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Last Update: February
8, 2003
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