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International collaboration in energy and oceans science and technology

CSIRO works with industry leaders and researchers around the world to solve challenges related to energy production and management, and sustainable benefits from marine resources.

26 June 2012

CSIRO draws on the skills of our scientists across many different disciplines to solve problems and develop new technology related to energy production and management, and sustainable benefits from marine resources. Collaboration with international partners is an important part of this work.

We carry out research and collaboration in the following areas:

Sustainable energy
Petroleum and geothermal research
Advanced coal technology
Ocean and coastal research
Earth sciences and resource engineering
Energy technology.

CSIRO encourages and supports global partnerships in order to:

Share knowledge with other world-leading science organisations
Support industry to improve products and processes
Develop and commercialise new technology
Help developing countries build capacity, reduce poverty and achieve sustainable development
Underpin international action on global issues
Collaboratively create a more sustainable world.

CSIRO’s international collaborations involve regional organisations, industry, SMEs, governments and science agencies around the world. Our partners include:

Chevron
ERSDAC (Japan)
PetroChina
TNO (Netherlands)
PETRONAS (Malaysia)
China Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development
China University of Mining and Technology
China Geological Survey
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (USA).

Collaboration examples

Biofuels research cluster

The biofuels research collaboration cluster will help Australia produce safe, sustainable transport fuels of the future.

AES:WA, an industry partnership with Chevron

AES:WA, the Western Australian Alliance for Advanced Energy Solutions is a strategic partnership between WA:ERA and Chevron.

CSIRO working with Evonik to improve battery technology

The Energy Transformed Flagship is partnering with Evonik and Monash University to develop new lithium battery technology based on room temperature ionic liquids, which are safer and more versatile than conventional lithium battery electrolytes.

The SHARC Consortium: a proposal

Industry participation is being sought in a joint industry project aimed at improving the understanding of shale behaviour.

CGGVeritas and Western Australian Energy Research Alliance partnership

Western Australian Energy Research Alliance have formed a strategic research alliance with CGGVeritas, an international geophysical service provider.

CSIRO and ERSDAC: remote partnering for remote sensing

CSIRO and ERSDAC are collaborating to deliver next generation remote sensing technologies for application in resource mapping and environmental monitoring.

CSIRO and PetroChina: partnering in petroleum

CSIRO partners with PetroChina to deliver world-class technology and research for the oil and gas industry.

Netherlands Institute of Applied Geoscience (TNO): partnership to map oil reserves in the North Sea

CSIRO Petroleum has teamed up with The Netherlands Institute of Applied Geoscience (TNO) and five major international energy companies to use CSIRO-developed technology in developing a database of petroleum reserves in the North Sea.

Petronas partnership to investigate alternative and clean energy technologies

PRSB, the research arm of the Malaysian oil and gas company PETRONAS, will partner with CSIRO to investigate alternative energy and clean fuel technologies.

Getting a fix on the gulf oil slick

CSIRO scientists have been testing prototype sensor technology in the Gulf of Mexico and helping monitor the leading edge of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (5:29)