The Mijnbouwkundige Vereeniging was established 132.5 years ago in Delft; to commemorate this, the 12th half-lustrum week will take place in February 2025. Like our previous lustra, the celebration of the half-lustrum will be celebrated with a week full of social and professional events such as a Symposium, AlumNight, and a Gala. The 12th Half-Lustrum Lustrum Committee is excited to announce that the theme of this week will be:

Under Pressure – Reshaping Our Future

This theme alludes to the pressure experienced by all members of society to safeguard our future. Engineers, academics, politicians, and company executives alike are faced with the challenges of the energy transition and rapidly changing global contexts. With its roots in mining engineering, the Mijnbouwkundige Vereeniging is seeking to accommodate the new breadth of the Applied Earth Sciences study, and hopes to impart a renewed sense of inspiration, excitement, and curiosity on the future drivers of the energy transition through its forthcoming half-lustrum week. For any questions regarding the half-lustrum, feel free to contact us at lustrum-mv@tudelft.nl

f.l.t.r: Tanvi Kiran, Michael van Voorst, Timo Brands, Fionnah Kerr, Hugo Jak. (Stijn Kuiper)

WEIR

The Weir Group PLC is one of the world’s leading engineering businesses with a purpose to make its mining and infrastructure customers’ operations more sustainable and efficient. Weir’s highly engineered technology enables critical resources to be produced using less energy, water and waste while reducing customers’ total cost of ownership. Weir is ideally positioned to benefit from structural trends that support long-term demand for its technology including the need for more essential metals to support economic development and carbon transition. The Group has c.12,000 employees operating in over 50 countries with a presence in every major mining region of the world.

Website: WEIR

About Caterpillar

With 2023 sales and revenues of $67.1 billion, Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives.

For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.

Caterpillar does business on every continent, principally operating through three primary segments – Construction Industries, Resource Industries and Energy & Transportation – and providing financing and related services through our Financial Products segment.

ENI Energy Netherlands

Eni Energy Netherlands is a longstanding player in the Netherlands. Through the acquisition of Neptune Energy on February 1st 2024, Eni is currently the largest natural gas producer in the Dutch part of the North Sea, managing 29 platforms, keen to strengthen its role as key partner to the country’s energy security. We are also committed to helping hard-to-abate industries to decarbonise and contributing to the Dutch climate goals via our low-carbon projects, while working on our own Net Zero target.

Eni Energy Netherlands has offices in The Hague and Den Helder, employing around 500 people in the Netherlands. In line with its commitment to sustainability, Eni Energy Netherlands is actively involved in projects like PosHYdon, world’s first offshore green production on an operational platform.

The principles underlying Eni’s global vision guide our actions in the journey towards a socially fair and just energy transition. This leads us to offer services, products and solutions that are increasingly sustainable.

ING is a global financial institution with a strong European base. The purpose of ING Bank is empowering people to stay a step ahead in life and in business. ING Bank’s more than 60,000 employees offer retail and wholesale banking services to customers in over 40 countries. ING aims to put sustainability at the heart of what we do – we are committed to creating sustainable value across supply chains.

We support our clients to shape the energy system of tomorrow through the accelerated build-out of renewable power generation, investments in energy storage and power grids next to the decarbonization of the oil and gas value chain. On the metals side, we provide financing solutions globally for clients across producers, processors and traders of metals and minerals. We have deep sector knowledge and aim to partner with clients and build long lasting relationships throughout the economic cycle.

Boskalis

Boskalis is a global leading dredging and marine contractor and services provider

We offer a unique combination of specialist expertise, a versatile fleet, and seamless and straightforward project execution. 

We have more than a century of experience in coastal protection, land reclamation and the construction of marine and dry infrastructure. We create value where land and water meet. We help societies to adapt to a changing world and build a sustainable and prosperous future.

With over 500 vessels and approximately 11,500 employees, prioritizing safety and sustainability, we create new horizons for our clients around the world. 

RWE

RWE is leading the way to a green energy world. With its investment and growth strategy Growing Green, RWE is contributing significantly to the success of the energy transition and the decarbonisation of the energy system. Around 20,000 employees work for the company in almost 30 countries worldwide. RWE is already one of the leading companies in the field of renewable energy. Between 2024 and 2030, RWE will invest 55 billion euros worldwide in offshore and onshore wind, solar energy, batteries, flexible generation, and hydrogen projects. By the end of the decade, the company’s green portfolio will grow to more than 65 gigawatts of generation capacity, which will be perfectly complemented by global energy trading. RWE is decarbonising its business in line with the 1.5-degree reduction pathway and will phase out coal by 2030. RWE will be net-zero by 2040. Fully in line with the company’s purpose – Our energy for a sustainable life.

EBN

Energie Beheer Nederland (EBN) speelt al 50 jaar een centrale rol in de energiewinning van Nederland. Met 100% van de aandelen in handen van de Nederlandse Staat is EBN een uniek bedrijf in de energiesector. EBN participeert met haar verregaande kennis van de ondergrond in ruim tweehonderd samenwerkingsverbanden. Oorspronkelijk in olie en gas, tegenwoordig ook in CO₂-opslag, geothermie en de ontwikkeling van duurzame gassen zoals waterstof. EBN heeft als staatsdeelneming een belangrijke rol in het uitvoeren van het Nederlands klimaatbeleid en het vormgeven van de energietransitie

TAQA

TAQA operates in the Alkmaar region as a producer of natural gas and co-owner and operator of two gas storage facilities. We also produce oil and gas from blocks P15 and P18 in the Dutch North Sea.

Globally, TAQA Group can be found in 11 countries and is active in the fields of energy and water.

Our two underground gas storage facilities in Alkmaar are called Peak Gas Installation and Gas Storage Bergermeer. Both storage facilities fulfil a strategic role in the security of energy supply, at a time when the Netherlands is going to import more and more gas to continue to meet the demand of households, businesses and industry in the coming decades.

Well Engineering Partners

Well Engineering Partners designs, realizes, manages, and plug & abandons oil-, gas-, salt-solution and geothermal wells for clients across the world, and delivers a range of solutions to support safe operations.

With over 30 staff and an extended network of experts WEP has been supporting the industry for over two-and-a-half decades.

Shell

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, employing 103,000 people and with operations in more than 70 countries. We use advanced technologies and take an innovative approach as we seek to help the world build a sustainable energy future. Shell is a customer-focused organisation, serving more than 1 million commercial and industrial customers, and around 33 million customers daily at more than 47,000 Shell-branded retail service stations.

eFuelution: Leading the Energy Transition

eFuelution is at the forefront of developing clean fuels, focusing on hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol. Our Phoenix software optimizes hydrogen production processes, helping companies achieve their sustainability goals. As project developers, we support every phase from feasibility studies to operational optimization.

We are proud to sponsor the Half Lustrum of MV and look forward to inspiring the next generation of engineers to build a sustainable future.

Petrogas

Petrogas E&P Netherlands B.V. is the European head quarter of the family-owned company Petrogas, based in Oman. It has been an operator in Europe for about 10 years after taking over the Dutch Chevron assets. Petrogas currently operates assets in Oman, the UK and the Netherlands, and has further assets in Egypt and Denmark.

In the Netherlands, Petrogas operates the shallow gas fields in the AB blocks, which deliver a substantial share of the Dutch offshore gas production. We are a very active operator with recent developments completed in the A15 and B10 blocks. The historical oil fields which Petrogas operates and which were developed in the 80’s and 90’s, have been dismantled in the last couple of years, a project that has almost come to completion with the removal of the Helder, Helm and Horizon platforms in 2024.

As part of the energy transition and the need for CO2 emission reductions Petrogas is looking into CO2 storage projects in the Dutch offshore.

Sproule

The sponsors featured on this page have been carefully selected in collaboration with our Half-Lustrum Committee to organize an amazing half-lustrum week.

If you have concerns regarding the sponsors listed, feel that a sponsor is missing, or are interested in becoming a sponsor yourself, we encourage you to reach out. For further inquiries or sponsorship opportunities, please contact the Half-Lustrum Committee (lustrum-mv@tudelft.nl) or the 133rd board of the Mijnbouwkundige Vereeniging.