Geological Society London Special Publications, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 548(1), P. 13 - 64

Published: Jan. 10, 2025

The burning of fossil fuels over the last 150 years has been main driver rising atmospheric CO 2 levels and global warming. petroleum industry as an entity is often blamed for a significant share these emissions, even those far downstream in value chain. As counterpoint to prevailing narrative that caused nothing but harm, this contribution argues more nuanced view by examining industry's role warming within historical societal context, highlighting its positive contributions society geosciences and, finally, showing how expertise subsurface technologies carbonate evaporite geoscience are supporting energy transition. Technologies workflows developed proved many decades becoming indispensable diverse aspects emerging sustainable programmes, data collected globally widely utilized exploration exploitation geothermal ventures sequester or store sustainably sourced energy. Carbonate rocks evaporites playing prominent changing landscape than might credit, ranging from current predominance low- medium-enthalpy schemes, salt-cavern storage programmes sequestration depleted oil gas reservoirs saline aquifers, through mineral carbonation programmes. greatly advanced our understanding Earth's geology. However, have become substantially defined their utility industry, with inevitable decline, funding direction will inevitably shift, impacting both nature research practical applications.

Language: Английский