Subject: Comments to Draft Specifications for Application of UNFC-2009 to Geothermal Energy Resources: from Sigurd Heiberg, Chairperson, Petronavit a.s.
3 August 2016
Thank you for distributing an excellent draft and for the invitation to comment on it.
In the attached PDF, you will find annotations that reflect both minor edits and more substantial points. The comments are limited to the text, not the appendices.
A general comment is that the 105-page document should be published in parts, not as one book for purely practical reasons. The excellent case studies should be published as separate parts in order to facilitate communication on the essential specifications.
I invite the Working Group to consider whether the specifications can be made applicable to geothermodynamic energy resources, i.e. heat and pressure as these are not only analogous but also often complementary. In oil and gas, this is known as reservoir energy. The link to UNFC-2009 will thereby also be more obvious.
I recommend a review of the requirements to disclose. David Elliott has made it clear in the Expert Group on Resource Classification that classification and disclosure are not related. The owner of the information, and sometimes the Government, decides what part of the classified information should be disclosed. UNECE does not regulate disclosures. Any disclosure requirements mentioned in the draft should therefore be replaced by requirements to assess, evaluate etc.
Comments from Sigurd Heiberg, Petronavit a.s., to Draft Specifications for Application of UNFC-2009 to Geothermal Energy Resources.
3 August 2016
Thank you for distributing an excellent draft and for the invitation to comment on it.
In the attached PDF, you will find annotations that reflect both minor edits and more substantial points. The comments are limited to the text, not the appendices.
A general comment is that the 105-page document should be published in parts, not as one book for purely practical reasons. The excellent case studies should be published as separate parts in order to facilitate communication on the essential specifications.
I invite the Working Group to consider whether the specifications can be made applicable to geothermodynamic energy resources, i.e. heat and pressure as these are not only analogous but also often complementary. In oil and gas, this is known as reservoir energy. The link to UNFC-2009 will thereby also be more obvious.
I recommend a review of the requirements to disclose. David Elliott has made it clear in the Expert Group on Resource Classification that classification and disclosure are not related. The owner of the information, and sometimes the Government, decides what part of the classified information should be disclosed. UNECE does not regulate disclosures. Any disclosure requirements mentioned in the draft should therefore be replaced by requirements to assess, evaluate etc.
Comments from Sigurd Heiberg, Petronavit a.s., to Draft Specifications for Application of UNFC-2009 to Geothermal Energy Resources.