The Government of Ethiopia takes the pleasure to host and organize the Sixth African Rift Geothermal Conference (ARGeo-C6) in collaboration with United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and African Union Commission (AUC).

The conference is sponsored by Icelandic International Development Agency (ICEIDA), KfW, BGRand other support partners. It is being organized under the auspices of the UNEP ARGeo Programme as one of its biennial geothermal conferences.

Dates

Topics

Objective

Call for Abstracts

• The conference will be held at UNCC, Addis Ababa- Ethiopia, from 31st Oct to 6th Nov 2016.
  • (i) The main conference will be held from 2th – 4th November, 2016.
  • (ii) Parallel Geothermal Pre-Conference Short Courses will be held on 31st October to 1st November 2016.
  • (iii) Post conference field trips to Ethiopian geothermal prospects will be held on 5-6 November 2016.
•  Vision and new strategies for geothermal power development
   Financing geothermal projects
   Environmental, health, safety & social factors in geothermal development.
   Capacity Building
   Case studies on geothermal development
   Exploration methods- Geology, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Heat Flow.
   Drilling Technology
   Reservoir Engineering
   New geothermal technologies, research papers and innovations
   Geothermal utilization.

• The aim of this biennial conference is to promote regional cooperation, create an information exchange platform on the exploration, development, investment and utilization of the geothermal resources in the region and elsewhere in the world

• The technical subcommittee of the ARGeo-C6 invites you to submit abstracts for the Conference on the topics provided.

  CALL FOR ABSTRACTS