Geodynamics appoints projects manager
Posted: 8 April 2008
Geodynamics Limited has appointed Rod Smith as its Projects Manager.
Mr Smith, who will be based in Geodynamics’ Brisbane head office, will be responsible for developing the company’s project management capabilities and delivery of its projects, with an initial focus on the Innamincka project in South Australia’s Cooper Basin. He will also manage the Innamincka joint venture with Origin Energy.
He was most recently employed as Manager, Program and Contract Management with Western Power in Perth where he managed a capital works program that consisted of about 500 capital and maintenance projects running concurrently with an annual expenditure of about $1 billion.
Mr Smith said the opportunity to be part of an industry on the rise was one of the key factors that had attracted him to Geodynamics.
"The search for clean energy is only going to get more critical in future years and it is exciting to be involved from such an early stage," he said.
"Geodynamics is a company at the forefront of the fledgling geothermal industry and I am looking forward to the challenges and developments that lie ahead."
Mr Smith’s has worked in engineering, maintenance and program and project management across several industries, including electricity, banking and defence. He has a Bachelor of Engineering and MBA and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors course.
Hot rock geothermal energy is produced using heat extracted from buried hot granites by circulating waters through an engineered, artificial reservoir or underground heat exchanger. Geodynamics has created the largest of these reservoirs in the world at its Cooper Basin site.
Posted by Richard Price, Editor, EnergyME.com
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