Overview

This symposium will bring together key players from industry, academia and government to discuss a broad spectrum of GeoEnergy-related technologies and research, looking both at the current state of the art and future opportunities.

Accommodation

Rooms available for booking at Courtyard by Marriott Edinburgh West at the special rate of £105 bed and breakfast single occupancy.

Please use the link here: GeoEnergy Rate or contact the hotel on +44 131 5263210. Bookings at the special rate must be made by the 19th of July 2019.

Venue

The symposium will take place in the James Watt Centre, on the Heriot-Watt Campus in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The conference dinner in the evening on 2 September will take place in The Scottish Café & Restaurant (Scottish National Gallery),in the city centre of Edinburgh. The conference dinner is free of charge.

Contact

geoenergy@hw.ac.uk

Programme

The symposium will run from 12pm on the 2nd until 2pm on the 3rd of September. Full details to be announced, sessions and keynotes as below:

Carbon Capture and Storage / Energy storage

Keynote speaker: Owain Tucker, Shell

Oil and gas

Keynote speaker: Jo Bagguley, Oil and Gas Authority

Geothermal

Keynote speaker: Peter Ledingham, Geosciences Ltd

Machine learning

Keynote speaker: Saswata Hier-Majumder, Royal Holloway University

Organisers

Sabine den Hartog (HWU)

Margaret Stewart (BGS)

Andreas Busch (HWU)

David Schofield (BGS)

Funding

This event is funded via the Heriot-Watt University EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) and British Geological Survey.