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Last week there was an article in the local newspaper in Hafnarfjordur on practical training carried out by the UNU Fellows in reservoir engineering. The local water supply permitted the UNU Fellows to use a production well and pumps at Kaldarsel for various exercises. The teacher responsible for the group was Pall Jonsson from ISOR.

United Nations University Geothermal Training Programme (UNU-GTP) in Iceland and Geothermal Development Company (GDC), and Kenya Electricity Generating Company, Ltd. (KenGen) will be hosting “Short Course V on Exploration for Geothermal Resources”, to be held at Lake Bogoria and Lake Naivasha, Kenya, 29 October – 19 November, 2010.  Invitations for nominations will be sent out in late June.  For preliminary programme see here.

The 32nd annual session of the UNU-GTP opened on  May 6, 2010. This year a record number of 28 UNU Fellows participate in the six month specialized courses. They come from China 3, Comoros 1, Costa Rica 1, Djibouti 1, Dominica 1, El Salvador 2, Eritrea 1, Ethiopia 1, Indonesia 3, Kenya 8, Mongolia 1, Nevis 1, Nicarauga 2. Rwanda 1, and Yemen 1. They will be trained in: Chemistry of Thermal Fluids 5, Reservoir Engineering 5, Borehole Geology 4, Environmental Science 4, Geothermal Utilization 4, Geophysical Exploration 3, and Drilling Technology 3, and Reservoir engineering 3.

During the second week of April, three UNU-GTP MSc Fellows defended their MSc thesis at the University of Iceland. 

UNU-GTP MSc Fellow Manuel Rivera from El Salvador defended his thesis entitled "Coupled geothermal reservoir-wellbore simulation with a case study for the Námafjall field, N-Iceland" on Friday March 26. The defence was held at Orkugardur were the office of UNU-GTP is located. Supervisors on the project were Dr. Gudni Axelsson and Dr. Halldór Pálsson. Dr. Andri Arnaldsson was the external examinor.

UNU-GTP MSc Fellow Erlindo Angcoy, from the Philippines, defended his thesis entitled “Geochemical modelling of the high-temperature Mahanagdong geothermal field, Philippines” Tuesday, February 23, 2010. The defence was held at the University of Iceland, Askja, room 132. Supervisor on the project was Stefán Arnórsson and Andri Stefánsson was also in the MS committee. Thráinn Fridriksson was the external examinator.