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.
Your training aligns with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, especially:
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy
Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
The programme uses subsurface geological knowledge to open diverse career paths in low-carbon energy technologies, the disposal of energy-related wastes and the evolving hydrocarbon industry.
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.
We have specifically designed this MSc to explore a wide range of energy topics, giving you opportunities for a varied career path.
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.
Learning outcomes
By studying the MSc GeoEnergy, you will:
acquire cutting-edge knowledge of GeoEnergy technologies, many of which are essential if ambitious emissions-reduction targets are to be achieved.
These are taught by experts in their fields who are actively researching these topics.
learn about the critical technical aspects of these technologies, as well as factors that influence acceptance and their use, such as cost, regulation, drawbacks and how the public views the technology.
be provided with opportunities to practise talks to convey your knowledge to your classmates.
Communicating your knowledge to others is an essential skill. To help you develop these skills, our staff will provide feedback on these talks, and some are formally assessed.
gain experience writing reports and designing posters, summarising your knowledge on a subject, and drawing conclusions from a wide range of data types.
This will equip you with communication skills that are essential to many career pathways.
