Three weeks of discovery (Bluashvili – Kamenksy – Tepnadze):
Focus was on the orientation of drill-cores based on date of boreholes logging and drill core scans. These data are important for running the Enguri Dam which produces water power and thus clean energy which is one of the UN sustainability goals.
• Conference on Monitoring for Enhanced High Dam Lifetime: Reliable Supply of water and electricity in times of Decarbonisation.
• Conference: Dams in Armenia – State of the Art & Research Potential.
• Conference Field Trip September
On August 24 the new Drillhole KIT-Spartak was spudded at the Enguri Dam.
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The new team to analyse the drillcores has arrived. Thomas Röckel our experienced geologist will train Alexander Kamensky, a student of George Melikadze at the Georgian Technical University.
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On 4 and 5 April 2022, the final conference "DAMAST-Conference: Monitoring for Hydropower Lifetime" took place in Luisentahl.
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Birgit Müller and Lukas Müller arrived on Friday, March 18 at Enguri Dam where it had been snowing the days before.
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Visiting Shtolna for checking injection site. In the evening Giorgi Bochorishvili and his team arrived.
Roman made first measurement with his multisensortool and Thomas Röckel and Birgit Müller analysed drill cores.
Forscher untersuchen Risiken für Staudämme
Mehr als 16 Prozent des globalen Strombedarfs werden aus Wasserkraft erzeugt – und Tausende weitere Staudämme sind weltweit geplant. Ein Forscherteam aus Karlsruhe will mit Partnern aus Georgien und Armenien den Betrieb von Stauanlagen sicherer und effizienter machen.
In the Enguri Valley we could log of the KIT-4 well with the acoustic and the optical televiewer. Great data.
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The teams at Enguri have been working in the field. Fractures in the power tunnel were checked.
Trip to Nenskra valley.
The field trip 2020, including drillings and borehole measurements, just started.
For short information on the current field work follow the link below.
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August 2020: Mobilization of Sinergia Drill Rig for the drilling of 20 m seismometer holes has been completed.
The drillings on the drill sites close do Enguri Dam have started.
Congrats to our Georgian partners for the successful proposals, granted by the Shota Rustaveli Foundation:
1. "Characterization of Ingirishi fault reactivation potential at Enguri Dam (Young Scientist Proposal for Nino Goguadze)"
2. "New fundamental approaches to assessment of geo-hazards of large hydropower dams/reservoirs: the case of Enguri High Arc Dam Area"
On July 28 the teams of GPI and AGW take part at an introduction course for the handling of the cable. The cable will be used as a seismometer in one of the 300 m deep drill holes at the Enguri Dam.
The acoustic televiewer, the oriented four–arm caliper and the gamma ray logging tools have been picked up at ALT Luxembourg by representatives of EIFER and AGW-TP after a 2 day training course The logging tools will be used for borehole logging in the two 300 m deep wells at Enguri Dam.
A. Ismail-Zadeh and colleagues published a study in Earth-Science Reviews (Elsevier) entitled "Geodynamics, seismicity, and seismic hazards of the Caucasus". The work can be accessed via Science Direct
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