BGR
Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe - The Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources
Germany
Description of the entity:
The Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) is the central geoscientific authority providing advice to the German Federal Government in all geo-relevant questions. It is subordinate to the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). BGR’s main scientific areas are: Energy resources, mineral resources, groundwater, soil, final disposal of radioactive waste, deep subsurface use & geological CO2 storage, geoscientific information and fundamentals, control of nuclear weapons test ban, and geo-hazard assessment.
Contribution to the Work Plan and expertise brought to ENOS:
BGR provides their soil gas monitoring stations, mobile and/or continuous flux chambers for a three year period of monitoring at Hontomin and the GeoEnergy test bed site. BGR will offer certain lab capacity to other partner with respect to gas analysis (compositional and isotope analysis). Building on experience in training and dissemination activities, BGR will help to promote information and knowledge sharing regarding CCS.
BGR is involved in:
- WP1. Ensuring safe storage operations (Task 1.3 Monitoring safe underground storage behaviour)
- 2 of the 4 tasks in WP3. Managing leakage risks for protection of the environment and groundwater (Task 3.3 Development of surface monitoring tools (Task Leader) and; Task 3.4 Integrated monitoring solution)
- WP5 Coordination with local communities (Task 5.1 Knowledge development and integration in a societal perspective)
- WP6. International Cooperation & seeding pilots and demos in Europe (Task 6.4 Knowledge development and integration in a societal perspective)
- WP7 Spreading innovation for Research integration and Best practices
- WP8 Promoting CCS through training and education (Task 8.2 Building and providing an e-learning course (Task leader)
Stilleweg 2, 30655 Hannover, Germany, Hannover
