Qatar firm looks to reduce CO2 emissions

ECO-FRIENDLY PLAN: Qatar Petroleum are undertaking a 10-year research project. (Getty Images)

London’s Imperial College is partnering with Qatar Petroleum, the Qatar Science and Technology Park and Shell for a ten-year research project that aims to develop better methods of recovering oil and gas while reducing the amount of carbon dioxide that is released into the atmosphere.

Under the $70 million deal, the college’s Department of Chemical Engineering and Earth Science and Engineering will recruit academic staff, 20 PhD students and 20 post doctoral researchers to carry out research in the UK and Qatar, The Peninsula wrote.

The researchers will develop computer simulations of rock structures and the way oil, water, natural gas and carbon dioxide move within them.

This will improve their understanding of how rocks trap gas and fluids, the newspaper wrote.

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