Description: 

This workshop is a follow up to the joint EAGE and Geological Society of London ‘Bryan Lovell Meeting 2019: Role of geological science in the decarbonisation of power production, heat, transport and industry’.

In Europe and elsewhere, decarbonisation of power production, industry, transport and heating to meet climate change targets is a major challenge and one that intrinsically involves the subsurface, geoscience and engineering. This workshop will be a high-level discussion to identify the main policy drivers, technical opportunities and challenges in geoscience and engineering that might contribute to decarbonisation, e.g. power generation, industrial decarbonisation, bio-energy and CCS (BECCS), geothermal, compressed air energy storage, and critical materials for low carbon.

The workshop will include key presentations on the role of geo-energy in decarbonisation as well as summarising workshop findings of the ‘Bryan Lovell Meeting’. It will also use a series of guided discussions to provide an opportunity for industry professionals, academics and policy makers to develop a research roadmap for the role of geoscience and engineering around decarbonising energy production. The results of the workshop will be presented in First Break, acknowledging the contribution of the workshop attendees.