GeoEnergy (Taught)

Our MSc GeoEnergy enables you to pursue a geosciences-related career in the rapidly evolving energy sector, as it transitions from fossil fuels to a net-zero future.

GeoEnergy encompasses the entire range of energy technologies and sources that interact with the geological subsurface. This includes both established energy technologies, such as hydrocarbons, and developing areas, such as geothermal energy production and the storage of radioactive waste. These technologies require either injection, extraction or interaction with fluids from the subsurface, which are subject to fundamental geological controls. Understanding these controls is essential for the responsible and safe utilisation of these energy-related technologies for a low-carbon future.

The rapidly developing GeoEnergy industry offers you challenges and opportunities to meet the need for reliable low-carbon energy. This is urgently needed to meet internationally agreed global decarbonisation targets and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Through this programme, you will learn about various ways to reduce CO2 emissions from the energy sector to help meet net-zero targets to tackle climate change. For example, you will learn about methods such as carbon capture and storage, along with energy storage technologies that complement renewable energy provision.

You will benefit from learning at a world-leading University, where we are driving efforts to mitigate climate change and transition to a low-carbon economy. Our research is internationally renowned in the areas of carbon capture and storage, as well as negative emissions (also known as greenhouse gas removals). We are working within the UK and across the world on the delivery of net-zero emissions targets to meet the UN Paris Agreement.