M Swyer

Michael Swyer

Michael Swyer has nine years of experience as a geothermal resource management for a fleet of five geothermal power facilities located in Nevada, Utah, and New Mexico. Other skills include geothermal resource exploration at existing facilities and new prospects, creating three-dimensional models Using geographic information systems (GIS) and computer aided design (CAD) based software for the purpose of geothermal resource management and expansion, and creating geothermal reservoir conceptual models. Michael has created several numerical model parameters from conceptual models and data preparation for geothermal reservoir simulations to make long term asset projections for presentation to financial lenders. Also, Michael has assisted with land management through cartography with GIS; making maps displaying company mineral lease positions and how they are co-located with geoscience data and interpretation for the purpose of making land management decisions and acquiring new assets. Michael has also performed several well test analysis of geothermal wells using Kappa Saphir Pressure Transient Analysis software, which he learned from Roland Horne’s short course on well testing. Michael also has experience with geomechanical modeling of crustal deformation by performing slip/dilation tendency analysis, and boundary element modeling of fault slip and crustal deformation using Poly 3D and Coulomb 3 software.