Imperial College is a technological university having a strong international reputation in teaching and research across the main areas of science and technology. The Department of Earth Science and Engineering is a multi-disciplinary department, integrating fundamental earth science research with petroleum, environmental, mining and minerals engineering. In the 2008 Higher Education Funding Council Research Assessment Exercise, covering all UK universities, the department's research was judged excellent and of international significance.
Expertise and capacity
Through its research into unconventional gas reservoir flow and geomechanical characterisation, multiphase and compositional simulator development, and clean energy technologies since the late 80’s, the Group representing Imperial College is recognised as a multi-disciplinary centre of excellence in CO2 storage research. Research conducted over the years has been funded by the EU, the industry (BP, Texaco, Shell, Statoil, Vattenfall, etc.), the UK Research Councils (EPSRC and NERC) and the UK Government.