Partnerships

We work closely with State and Territory Geological Surveys, CSIRO, Universities, Federal and State Government Departments, industry, and international agencies and organisations on a range of low carbon geoscience topics. Some of our formal collaborations include:

CO2CRC

Geoscience Australia has been a member of CO2CRC since 2003, and was a partner in its precursor, the Australian Petroleum Cooperative Research Centre (APCRC), under which the GEODISC project was completed. CO2CRC is one of the world's leading research organisations developing technologies and the science required for CCS. At their research site in south west Victoria, CO2CRC has injected CO₂ deep underground into a depleted gas reservoir and a saline formation. The CO2CRC’s storage program addresses a wide range of questions relating to areas such as monitoring, the nature of deep saline formations and rock mechanical behaviour in storage formations, and fluid-rock interactions imposed by the introduction of CO₂. Several of our current projects are being carried out through the CO2CRC storage program with a range of partners including CSIRO and academic institutions.

CSLF: Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum

The CSLF is an international, Ministerial level initiative which aims to develop and progress the technical, regulatory, financial and other aspects of CCS. Australia is one of the 26 member countries that represent 80% of the world’s anthropogenic CO₂ emissions. Geoscience Australia supports the Government’s engagement at the CSLF as one of Australia’s representatives to the Technical Group.

CAGS: China Australia Geological Storage of CO₂ (2009–2019)

CAGS was a long-running collaborative program between the Australian and Chinese Governments focused on a mutual exchange of experience and expertise, broad dissemination of knowledge, exciting CCS-related science and providing development opportunities for students and early career researchers in CCS. Funded by the (then) Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism and implemented and co-managed by Geoscience Australia and China’s Administrative Centre for China’s Agenda 21 (Ministry of Science and Technology), the program has reached and linked hundreds of researchers and institutions in China, Australia and beyond. For more information about CAGS, including publications, training materials and news, visit the CAGS website and our publications page.