How a multidisciplinary, data-driven geoscience approach is required to help achieve the energy transition goals

Hydrocarbon energy resources have been extracted from the Earth for many decades using in-depth technical knowledge of its subsurface. With the need to achieve net zero goals, many traditional hydrocarbon companies are reducing the carbon intensity of their operations and investing in renewable energy and carbon offsetting, repurposing existing hydrocarbon infrastructure and technology to support this transition. Subsurface technical specialists across the energy sector have decades of knowledge and skills that can help to accelerate decarbonisation. In this article, we summarise some of our recent multi-disciplinary projects that demonstrate the valuable role geoscience can play in the energy transition, particularly when supported by data science, high performance computing (HPC) and other technologies.