Wales BGS Wales is based in Cardiff and provides a full range of BGS services and expertise. Collaborating widely, BGS Wales ensures that excellent scientific outputs contribute to the needs of local and central government in Wales, non-governmental organisations and academia, and informs the wider community. By doing so, BGS Wales produces high-quality geoscience to address today’s environmental and societal challenges. Geological carbon capture and storage in Wales Our research in carbon capture and storage (CCS) is part of the National Research Network for Low Carbon Energy and the Environment (NRN-LCEE) Geo-Carb Cymru cluster, in collaboration with microbiologists from Aberystwyth University and Cardiff University. Our work focuses on developing methods to enhance carbon dioxide (CO2) storage in geological formations, and contributes to the growing research on CCS. This is vital for a low-carbon society and to mitigate the effects of carbon emission on the global climate. We have focused on improving the characterisation and storage potential of the East Irish Sea Basin (EISB), which borders the north Wales coast. This area is an important CCS cluster for the western UK, where storage units consist of depleted or depleting gas fields and saline aquifers in the Triassic formations of the Sherwood Sandstone Group. The first objective of this work consists of mapping the structure of the regional 3D seismic volumes and correlating Did you know? The BGS has developed the first map to show suitability of infiltration sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) for Great Britain. 14 Annual science review
Annual Science Review 2015-2016
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