Sam Abraham
Halliburton
Global Technical Advisor, Low Carbon Solutions (Geothermal)
Works for Halliburton as the Global Technical Advisor, Low Carbon Solutions – Geothermal. Sam has a M S degree in Petroleum Technology and M S Degree in Engineering Management, with over 30 years of experience in the drilling industry, with initial 10 years in oil and gas industry, mainly in the exploration and production wells in Indonesia (offshore and onshore) followed by 20 years in the geothermal industry in Indonesia, New Zealand, Turkey, Western USA, Hawaii, Dominica, Kenya, Tanzania, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Philippines.
Worked as the Senior Drilling Project manager and Coordinator with various private operators directing geothermal field operations including drilling, especially on remote drilling and start up projects, mainly with deep, high temperature geothermal wells in New Zealand, USA, Dominica, Kenya and Indonesia. Prior to that worked in the Mudlogging division as Field Supervisor, and offshore on high pressure high temperature oil and gas wells in Southeast Asia.
Senior Advisor and Trainer for International Geothermal Association (IGA) and UNEP for geothermal project management courses. Executive Board member of Ignis Energy (a geothermal developer).
Member of External Advisory Board of Geothermal Development Company (GDC), a Government of Kenya company.
Performed due diligence work on the new EGS technologies being developed in the renewable energy market to cope the climate change issues.
Prepared the DOE Geothermal 101Guidebook as a part of the DOE Project Lift off and presented at the DOE Geothermal Workshop in Washington DC in Aug, 2024 on behalf of Halliburton and all the other oil field service companies.
Technical advisor of the LBNL-SNL geothermal research projects for the Department of Energy and the International Geothermal Association (IGA) and has published 25 technical papers. Member of IGA, SPE, American Association of Drilling Engineers (AADE) and Project Management Institute. (PMI)