Innovation in Energy Award

This award recognises a breakthrough innovation that is creating significant value for customers, communities, organisations, or the wider energy sector.
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Contact

Innovation in geothermal well formation cleaning

finalist
Innovation in Energy Award
New Zealand Energy Excellence Awards 2025

Contact's innovative formation cleaning project improves upon conventional options for geothermal well maintenance. Their innovation combines data-driven cleaning programmes, advanced laboratory testing, refined candidate well selection and automated execution to deliver a more efficient, cost-effective, and predictable formation cleaning solution. This approach has proven to increase generation revenue and improve operational efficiency. Contact's collaboration with Western Energy has resulted in a custom-built, automated formation cleaning skid unit, increasing safety and precision. Combining Contact's upfront analysis and Western's execution has resulted in an end-to-end formation cleaning service which is already generating strong interest from domestic and international geothermal operators.