The British Geological Survey (BGS) was established in 1835 and is the United Kingdom’s national geological survey and one of the world’s major centres of geoscientific knowledge, expertise and excellence. It is the UK’s foremost supplier of geoscience solutions and custodian of much of the country's geoscientific information.

The British Geological Survey (BGS) was established in 1835 and is the United Kingdom’s national geological survey and one of the world’s major centres of geoscientific knowledge, expertise and excellence. BGS has approximately 800 staff, of which some 500 are professional scientists and technologists. It is the UK’s foremost supplier of geoscience solutions and custodian of much of the country's geoscientific information. It is responsible for advising the UK government on all aspects of geoscience as well as providing impartial geological advice to industry, academia and the public in the UK and internationally. BGS forms part of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), responsible for basic, strategic and applied research in the environmental sciences. BGS has been involved in R&D into the geological sequestration since 1993, when it co-ordinated the first EC funded R&D project (Joule 2, 1993-6) out of which came the world first deep saline aquifer storage demonstration at Sleipner and series of EC and industry funded projects (SACS1,2, & CO2store); with BGS playing a major role. In FP 5 BGS was technical leader of GESTCO (2000-3) and formulated and co-ordinates the EC Weyburn and Nascent projects (2000-4). BGS also has a role the BP led Carbon dioxide Capture Project (CCP) through the EC funded NGCAS project (2002-5). Through the EC Carnot Programme BGS & TNO are the sole R&D providers in the Green Energy from Coal project. BGS is also a member of CO₂NET2, an FP5 network which provides a contact forum for the power sector, oil industry, and R&D providers interested in CO2 sequestration, which will run from 2003-2005. It has also formed an alliance project with the Tyndall Center and is a project participant looking at the economics, legalities and social aspects of CO₂ storage. BGS also funds significant R&D into CO₂ storage through its own funds and has just embarked on  a 3 year project “creating a low carbon economy” in response to the UK Government  Energy White Paper published last month (Feb 2003). Through this it will help support the recent announcement that the UK is in the planning stage of a CO₂ enhanced oil recovery demonstration in the Uk sector of the N. Sea. BGS is a member of the scientific advisory committee which is guiding the development of a national Energy Research Centre, it is also an affiliate member of the NERC Research Centres on atmospheric sciences. BGS also supplies a  senior CO2 researcher to the IPCC panel which is compiling a  report on CO₂ sequestration technologies.