Every tie Imperial has to Fossil Fuels in one place*
In March 2024, we searched Imperial’s website for every reference to fossil fuel companies. A group of volunteers from Imperial Climate Action manually sorted through these pages for connections between Imperial and the fossil fuel industry. Below this you can see the 250 relationships we found and links to the original and archived pages.
When fossil fuel companies get involved with research to decarbonise or transition to renewables we know that at this point it’s greenwash. These companies had an opportunity to become energy companies and truly lead a transition to renewable energy decades ago. We do not blame any individuals, but instead present this information to make clear the scale of past and ongoing collaboration between Imperial and fossil fuel companies. This is why all names have been removed.
* Our initial search terms didn’t cover all the fossil fuel companies we found links to, so it’s quite likely that links to these other companies have been missed. Also, ICA is not a professional team, so we probably made some mistakes. If you’re curious, you can double check our summaries using the links provided. ‘L’ links point to page as on Imperial’s website and ‘A’ links point to the page in the Internet Archive.
N.B., when members of faculty have previous industrial experience with oil and gas but currently work at Imperial, they are organised with the the date they were employed at the company, and those entries are usually marked with a ‘+’ to show continuing involvement.
| Date | Link | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | L/A | BP funded a research associate who is now a fellow of the Royal Society. |
| 1992+ | L/A | Prof currently of the Department of Earth Science and Engineering was a Research reservoir engineer at BP from 1988-1992. |
| 1992+ | L/A | Prof, Department of Earth Science, was Shell Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Imperial from 1990-1992, was Minorco Lecturer in Mineral Deposit Studies at Imperial from 1993-1997, and has been LODE Director and Research Leader in Mineral Deposits at the Natural History Museum since 2014. |
| 1994 | L/A | Prof is BP Lecturer in Geophysics at Imperial from 1989-1994. |
| 1995 | L/A | Emeritus Prof of the Department of Chemical Engineering received a Royal Society Industry Fellowship with BP Oil and BP Chemicals from 1992-1995. |
| 1996 | L/A | Shell established the Shell-Imperial Advanced Interfacial Materials Science Centre as part of its research initiatives. |
| 1996+ | L/A | Prof, Department of Chemical Engineering, received Shell Lecturer Support Award from 1992-1996. |
| 1997 | L/A | NT received the CAST Directors Award along with three other researchers; two of them were from BP. |
| 1997+ | L/A | Prof currently of the Department of Chemical Engineering worked on Multifield optimisation using simulated annealing techniques at BP from 1996-1997. |
| 2001 | L/A | The Entrepreneurs Challenge for Imperial Students was in collaboration with Shell |
| 2003+ | L/A | Prof, Department of Chemistry, has an industrial connection to BP as a Consultant in olefin polymerisation 2000-2003. |
| 2004+ | L/A | Dr CT currently of the Department of Chemical Engineering was a Chemical Engineer at BP from 2000-2004. |
| 2004+ | L/A | Prof, Department of Materials, joined the department working on a project funded by Shell. |
| 2005 | L/A | Prof presented work on a BP oil field at a conference. |
| 2008 | L/A | VG is the Sir Edward Frankland Professor of Inorganic Chemistry (BP funded position) from 2004-2008 and went on to be Chief Scientist at BP. |
| 2008 | L/A | More about QCCSRC: “Imperial is very excited about building on our existing strong collaboration with Shell, to work with them and our new partners in Qatar”. “The agreement was celebrated at Imperial College London … with guests including Qatar’s Deputy Premier and Minister of Energy and Industry, His Excellency Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, and Ms Linda Cook, Executive Director of Shell Gas & Power.” etc.. |
| 2008+ | L/A | Prof currently of the Department of Earth Science and Engineering was a Research reservoir engineer at BP Research Centre from 1986-1991 and a BP Technology Fellow from 2006-2008. |
| 2009 | L/A | A PhD student, Reaction Engineering and Catalytic Technology research group, received the Shell Scholarship award from 2005-2009. |
| 2009 | L/A | The RCSU Imperial College Science Challenge was funded and supported by Shell. |
| 2009+ | L/A | Prof, currently Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, was Shell Chair in Sustainable Development in Energy from 2004-2009. |
| 2010 | L/A | S was doing his MSc on a Shell-funded project in the Matar Fluids Group. |
| 2010 | L/A | AH, Shell’s Fuels Innovation Manager, submitted one of the four essay questions for a Science Challenge essay competition for Imperial. |
| 2010 | L/A | A PhD student, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, wins NERC-CASE award with BP in September 2010. More past PhDs: one funded by Petronas; two by Statoil; two by Total; one by BP, now at Statoil; another by BP, now at BP; one by Fina, now at Schlumberger; one by Amerada Hess; and one by Ecopetrol. |
| 2011 | L | The Theory & Simulation of Materials Centre for Doctoral Training (TSM CDT) hosted an event where the former executive VP of the alternative energy division at BP conducted a MasterClass for TSM CDT students. |
| 2011 | L/A | NL became Sir Edward Frankland BP Chair a position in the Department of Chemistry created and endowed BP. |
| 2011+ | L/A | Prof, Department of Chemical Engineering, was Lecturer in Clean Energy, RCUK (Shell) Research Fellow at Imperial from 2007-2011, is affiliated with the Clean Fossil and Bioenergy group and MESMERISE-CCS. |
| 2012 | L/A | Shell sponsored a £250 prize for students’ performance on an industrial project in the Department of Chemical Engineering. |
| 2012 | L/A | There was a collaboration between the Department of Chemical Engineering and Shell on the Shell-Imperial Grand Challenge on Clean Fossil Fuels, with £3 million in funding. |
| 2012 | L/A | There were frequent trips made to the Middle East to investigate how depleted reservoirs could be utilized for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), funded by Shell. |
| 2012 | L | BP establishes $100 mn international research centre based in the University of Manchester, BP-ICAM. A joint press release by Imperial and BP discusses what their research projects will be. |
| 2012 | L/A | Emeritus Prof, Department of Chemical Engineering, was appointed to the board of directors of Chevron Corporation in 2012. |
| 2013 | L/A | The Department of Mechanical Engineering was working with Shell to develop efficiency improving lubricant. |
| 2013 | L/A | Shell was the sponsor of a student competition. |
| 2013 | L/A | Imperial Racing Green alumni founded Vantage Power which won the Shell Springboard competition. |
| 2013 | L/A | JE of the Faculty of Engineering received an award from Shell. |
| 2013 | L/A | Shell established a University Technology Centre at Imperial to research improvements in efficiency. |
| 2013 | L/A | Shell is one of 13 industrial partners of the SynbiCITE centre |
| 2013 | L/A | JM, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, has collaborated with BP. |
| 2013 | L/A | Shell was present at a networking event. |
| 2013 | L/A | Corrosions scale dynamics (materials) project is partly funded by BP as part of BP-ICAM. |
| 2013+ | L/A | Emeritus Prof, Department of Physics, is doing research on membranes with BP-ICAM. |
| 2014 | L/A | Dr EC received an award from Shell and the Institute of Physics. |
| 2014 | L/A | Over $6 mn for a carbon removal project involving Imperial’s Dr Clotilde Cucinotte from partners including Shell Qatar. |
| 2014 | L/A | Shell was a sponsor for a £250 prize for students’ performance on an industrial project in the Department of Chemical Engineering. |
| 2014 | L/A | The Gas Innovation Fellowship in the Department of Chemical Engineering collaborated with Shell in the field of gas utilisation, with funding from Shell along with the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development |
| 2014 | L | Research on in-situ chemical imaging of asphaltene precipitation from crude oil supported by Skolkovo Foundation and BP as part of the Vibrational Spectroscopy Group at Imperial. |
| 2014 | L | Four journal articles highlighted in collaboration with BP. |
| 2014 | L | International partnerships amounting to $10 mn with BP and Russia via the Skolkovo foundation on improving the energy efficiency and environmental impact of the oil industry. |
| 2014 | L/A | BP the focus of a Pipeline Health monitoring thesis. |
| 2014 | L/A | PhD from 2010-2014 with funding from BP in Department of Earth Science and Engineering. NERC-CASE award with BP. |
| 2014+ | L/A | Dr AP, Research Fellow Department of Chemical Engineering, collaborated on a project ‘energy in urban areas’, funded by BP from 2009-2014. |
| 2015 | L/A | FAPESP Shell Research Centre for Gas Innovation (RCGI) - collaborating with Shell and partnering with ICL. |
| 2015 | L/A | Three undergraduates competed in the final of the Shell Ideas 360 Competition. |
| 2015 | A | Statoil welcomed more than 80 bright Imperial science and engineering graduates, who joined our company to apply their skills and original ideas. (Explores the options for fossil fuel divestment.) |
| 2015 | L | SD had an internship with BP while studying Earth Science & Engineering. |
| 2015 | L/A | Details on MR, who leads Shell’s programme for Materials and Corrosion at Imperial. |
| 2015 | L/A | Shell present at a careers event. |
| 2015 | L | An event on carbon dioxide and methane emissions in the natural gas supply chain features panellist LR, Vice President of Environment Upstream at British Petroleum (BP). |
| 2015 | L/A | BP funds the Petit Resarch Group: 2014 - J receives BP UROP award; 2015 - J, R, and S, receive bursaries from BP for the summer, A and R join to start a project with BP via BP-ICAM, and S wins a prize for her poster at BP-ICAM annual conference. |
| 2015 | L/A | Research on plastics supported by Shell’s Social Investment Program. |
| 2016 | L/A | Conference in 2016 welcomed Dr Rob Little from Shell |
| 2016 | L/A | The Carbon Capture and Storage Leaders Forum 10-12 February 2016 featured speakers from Shell, BP, Tata, Capture Power Ltd and Novacem and the UK’s DECC to speak. |
| 2016 | A | A “Can technology unlock unburnable carbon? – What is the potential of Carbon Capture and Storage?” on Tue 17 May 2016 had panel member Ms. Charlotte Wolff-Bye, Head of Sustainability Strategy at Statoil. |
| 2016 | L/A | BP sponsored Radiography and Sub-sea Pipelines project |
| 2016 | L/A | A PhD student sponsored by Shell as part of their University Technology Centre at Imperial, with help from Neal Morgan from Shell Global Solutions UK and 3 others, made a film which won an award. |
| 2016 | L/A | AP, from BP, participated in a Grantham Institute series of talks about risk and uncertainty. |
| 2016 | L | LC receives a BP achievement award. Another programme includes $275 mn raised from companies including BP. |
| 2016 | L/A | Imperial student start-up team won a Shell LiveWIRE Smarter Future Award. |
| 2016 | L/A | Article on Imperial’s blog all about the Shell LiveWIRE Smarter Future programme, which includes a coaching workshop with Shell senior business leaders, and other opportunities with Shell including funding. |
| 2016+ | L/A | Visiting Prof is head of Department in Chemical Engineering and is Imperial’s member of the BP-ICAM Programme Management Board. |
| 2017 | L/A | Members of Shell attended the model scoping workshop in the Department of Chemical Engineering. |
| 2017 | L/A | BP and Saudi Aramco are among the 10 oil companies part of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) which is the first tenant of Central Working White City created by Central Working and Imperial. |
| 2017 | L/A | A PhD Student in the Department of Mathematics funded by Shell. |
| 2017 | L/A | Shell collaborates through its Materials & Corrosion R&D team with Imperial to explore materials behaviour through a strategic partnership. |
| 2017 | L | ICAH announces the BP-Imperial Hackathon explores ways BP can use voice-activated technology and includes workshops from Amazon, Subie, Olyslager, and BP. |
| 2017 | L | The week-long hackathon is funded by BP. Projects were pitched to experts including from BP. |
| 2017 | L | Prof, of the Department of Chemistry, is part of a partnership project with BP through BP-ICAM. |
| 2017 | L/A | Engineers at Imperial do research supported by the QCCSRC and funded jointly by Qatar Petroleum, Shell, and the Qatar Science and Technology Park. |
| 2017 | L/A | An article highlights how the Sustainable Gas Institute helped develop principles for Shell, BP, Eni, ExxonMobil, Repsol, Statoil, Total, and Wintershall to reduce methane emissions. |
| 2018 | L/A | Department of Chemical Engineering collaborates with Shell and met with them at the AIChE annual meeting. |
| 2018 | L/A | Collaboration with Shell through the University Technology Sector. |
| 2018 | L/A | Details on engagement between Shell and Imperial, through ED (Executve VP for Strategy at Shell). |
| 2018 | L/A | Conference in 2018 welcomed Dr RL from Shell (again). |
| 2018 | A | IDLES (part of Imperial’s Energy Futures lab) Conference speaker Dr WH, Principal Engineer at Equinor. |
| 2018 | L/A | 25 new research projects in the Department of Chemical Engineering (20x PhD and 5x PDRA) from Brazil collaborating with Imperial under the GIFP funded in part by Shell. |
| 2018 | A | With partners from five countries, including Imperial College London, SINTEF, Total, the European Gas Research Group and Equinor, ELEGANCY is working on Carbon Capture and Storage. |
| 2018 | L/A | PhD funding from Shell in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. |
| 2018 | L | Another article about BP-ICAM research. |
| 2018 | L/A | Imperial signed a multi-million pound 5-year Research Collaboration Agreement for doctoral training with Petronas in 2013. |
| 2018 | L/A | Article about Imperial Racing Green team entering hydrogen fuel cell car into the Shell Eco-Marathon. |
| 2018 | L/A | More on QCCSRC (from Qatar Petroleum and Shell): page highlights links to Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, as well as Qatar Geological Society, Shell Qatar Carbonate Research, and Qatar Petroleum Research Centre. QCCSRC finished in 2018. |
| 2018+ | L/A | Prof currently of the Department of Materials, was a Co-Investigator in a project for Petronas from 2015-2018. |
| 2019 | L/A | WE Innovate was judged by a panel including Ventures Principal at BP Ventures, SE, and the article on imperial’s blog contains an extended quote from BP Global director for international university partnerships “it’s been a pleasure to sponsor…”. |
| 2019 | L/A | BP and WE Innovate mentioned in yet another article on Imperial’s blog. |
| 2019 | L/A | BP and WE Innovate mentioned in yet another article on Imperial’s blog. |
| 2019 | L/A | BP and WE Innovate mentioned in yet another article on Imperial’s blog. |
| 2019 | L | Masters students from the Business School won the Shell LIVEwire competition in March. |
| 2019 | L/A | Energy & environment track of Venture Catalyst Challenge is funded by Shell. |
| 2019 | L/A | Energy & environment track of Venture Catalyst Challenge is funded by Shell (mentioned in another article). |
| 2019 | L/A | Basins Research Group (BRG) PhD student IO is working with HJ and his PhD is supported by Shell and Petroleum Technology Development Fund. |
| 2019 | L/A | Prof’s models were used by Shell, BP, Pfizer, P&G and the Borealis Group in a range of industrial applications, from gas extraction. |
| 2019 | L/A | Earth Science and Engineering Petroleum Engineering MSc students were in Brazil in May, for the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Junior Chapter overseas field trip. They visited Petrobras, Schlumberger and Baker-Hughes operational bases, Repsol-Sinopec and Equinor offices, and Shell’s Advanced Oil Recovery Laboratory (LRAP). They met the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) SPE Petrobowl team champions that Shell sponsored. At Shell Brazil, ESE Petroleum Engineering MSc students were part of a Shell Safety Day Session. |
| 2019 | L/A | Article celebrating “prosperous partnership with BP”: mentions BP’s contributions to research and debates; running a hackathon; and BP-ICAM. It notes that in the past five years the partnership has resulted in co-authoring 23 journal and conference papers and strong connections with academics from nine departments. “Imperial see BP as one of its main industry partners in terms of total research funding, recruitment and a key source of support, advice and insight in the development and application of future technologies.” - Rebecca Wilson. Read this one. |
| 2019 | A | Research as part of the Process Automation Group involves end-user companies (BASF, Acciai Speciali Terni, Equinor, Ineos, Petronor), companies that supply technology and training, and universities (Imperial College London as coordinator) from 2016-2019. |
| 2019 | L/A | Details of how Imperial is working with Shell in 2018-19 academic year. |
| 2019 | L/A | A PhD student (started in 2019), Functional Membranes and Energy Materials research group, is funded by the EPSRC and BP-ICAM, and is under supervision of Dr DP at BP America. |
| 2019 | L | Campbell Group news and events notes seminar for BP-ICAM. |
| 2020 | L/A | RJ, Imperial alum, working for BP gives a talk to students. |
| 2020 | A | Equinor Technical Presentation in Earth Science. |
| 2020 | A | A study on Carbon Capture and Storage in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering was funded by Gassco, Equinor, and Total among other sources. |
| 2020 | L | A video outlines how the Centre for Process Systems Engineering and BP are working together on digitalisation in the process industry. |
| 2020 | L/A | A new membrane developed by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, and ExxonMobil could help reduce carbon emissions and energy use associated with refining crude oil. |
| 2020 | L/A | Shell Nigeria and partners are pleased to offer up to 5 scholarships for Nigerian applicants as part of the SPDC Niger Delta Post Graduate Scholarship Scheme (now closed). |
| 2020 | L/A | GM, Department of Chemical Engineering, is featured in a documentary about the BP oil spill (Deepwater Horizon oil spill), and is an expert in deep-water drilling in the oil and gas industry. |
| 2020 | L/A | AY, an alum reflects on networking and visiting the Petronas headquarters. |
| 2020 | L | BP Chief Scientist Prof was a distinguished guest to the LCN (London Centre for Nanotechnology). |
| 2020+ | L/A | Prof of Energy Engineering is Chair of the Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) working group and spent 20 years in oil and gas. Since 2005 he has been Director of several research programmes on decarbonising fossil fuels sponsored by Shell. |
| 2021 | L/A | BP-ICAM held a photo competition. BP-ICAM is a collaboration between BP, Imperial College, the University of Cambridge, University of Manchester and Illinois. |
| 2021 | L/A | Imperial, Shell and Diamond Light Source launched an EPSRC funded programme on materials and processes for the energy transition. |
| 2021 | L/A | Details on MR, who leads Shell’s programme for Materials and Corrosion at Imperial. |
| 2021 | L | BP acknowledged as a major collaborator of the Thomas Young Centre which is made up research groups from four London colleges: Imperial, King’s College, Queen Mary University London, and University College London. |
| 2021 | L/A | Dr AO, Department of Materials, is affiliated with the Shell-AIMS centre and conducted their PhD project there. |
| 2021 | L/A | The Institute for Digital Molecular Design and Fabrication (DigiFAB) lists a BP iCASE PhD at Imperial. |
| 2021+ | L/A | Prof, Department of Earth Science, was: Statoil Senior Lecturer in Basin Analysis, Imperial College 2009-201; Statoil Reader in Basin Analysis, Imperial College 2012-2015; Statoil Professor of Basin Analysis, Imperial College 2015-2018; Equinor Professor of Basin Analysis, Imperial College 2018-2021. They remain a Visiting Professor at Imperial. |
| 2022 | L/A | Shell sponsors the Raeng Research Chair in Complex Engineering Interfaces in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. |
| 2022 | L/A | EPRC Grant partners include BP, Shell, and Toyota. |
| 2022 | L/A | A book launch by DM, board member of Barclays, 3M, and Chevron, where she gives a presentation and is available for questions during the following drinks. |
| 2022 | L/A | Carbon storage research (which won BEIS funding) was developed in collaboration with BP, and DraxPower among some others. |
| 2022 | L/A | First industrial event held for BP-ICAM for Electrochemistry Network at Imperial, where BP delivers at least one technical talk. |
| 2022 | L/A | BP is an industrial collaborator in a research project into reducing seismicity of injecting fluid into rocks but “will not investigate any technologies aimed at the extraction of oil or shale gas.” |
| 2022 | L/A | Work on quantum computing for a project called ORCA involves a ‘consortium’ of 15 companies including BP. |
| 2022 | A | A project, in Campbell Group from 2017-2022, sponsored by Saudi Aramco, first researches establishing with a fundamental basis the corrosion attacks in harsh environments of oil and gas processes. this baseline allows for the development and testing of suitable novel corrosion inhibitors. |
| 2022 | L/A | Shell and Imperial Researchers collaborated on the use of blockchain for carbon markets and Shell partially funded the study. |
| 2022 | L/A | Article about Prof, Dean of Faculty of Engineering, who returned to academia following a 14-year research career with BP and Rolls-Royce. |
| 2023 | L/A | Research Associate position in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering on hydrogen embrittlement funded by Shell. |
| 2023 | L/A | Two research projects about redox flow batteries in Electrochemical Science and Engineering are funded by Shell (one past and one current). |
| 2023 | L/A | One research project on Lithium Ion battery fast charging in Electrochemical Science and Engineering is funded by Shell. |
| 2023 | L/A | Dr SF of the Department of Earth Science and Engineering is a senior PDRA in the Imperial-Shell Digital Rocks Program |
| 2023 | L/A | A research project in the Clean Fossil and Bioenergy Research Group on the viscosity and density of reservoir fluids under CO2 addition is funded by Shell, Qatar Petroleum, Qatar Science, and Technology Park. |
| 2023 | L/A | A research project in the Clean Fossil and Bioenergy Research Group on distillation systems is funded by Shell. |
| 2023 | L | BP and Petronas thanked for funding work on two-phase mixing systems. |
| 2023 | A | Total Energies has a sponsorship opportunity for candidates who are applying for the MSc in Environmental Data Science & Machine Learning for autumn 2023 entry. |
| 2023 | L/A | Four PhD projects in the Metals Electrochemistry Group in collaboration with Shell. |
| 2023 | L/A | One PhD project in the Experimental Micromechanical Characterisation Group in collaboration with Shell. |
| 2023 | L/A | The Clean Fossil and Bioenergy Research Group has collaborations with Shell. |
| 2023 | L/A | DigiFAB, of the Department of Chemistry, works with many industry partners, including BP. |
| 2023 | L/A | Part of an introduction to Offshore Geophysics & Geotechnical Engineering as part of Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering was “Geophysical interpretation applications BP”. |
| 2023 | L/A | Shell, BP, and Toyota among partners of DIGIBAT alongside Imperial, and collaborators include six members of faculty from Imperial. |
| No date+ | L/A | Dr BB, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, has done research into safe CCS and improved hydrocarbon recovery technologies in subsurface porous media sponsored by Total, Qatar Petroleum, Shell, and Qatar Science and Technology Park. They are a member of and collaborating with the UK CCS Consortium, QCCSRC, and Shell Grand Challenge Programme on Clean Fossil Fuels. |
| No date+ | L/A | Prof is Shell Professor of Thermophysics and a Theme Leader for the Digital Rocks Lab. They are affiliated with the Clean Fossil and Bioenergy research group. |
| No date+ | L/A | Prof, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has collaborated with several fossil fuel companies: they received funding for Novel Cementing Materials Manufactured from Waste Incineration Ashes from BP; funding for Reuse of Oil Drill Cuttings in the Oil and Gas Industry in Nigeria from the Petroleum Development Fund, Nigeria; and funding for Development of Novel Glass-Ceramics from Problematic UK Wastes using Borates and Borate Containing Wastes from Rio Tinto Minerals who were also an industrial collaborator on another project. |
| No date+ | L/A | Prof, Department of Chemical Engineering, listed an industrial connection to BP. |
| No date+ | L/A | Emeritus Prof, Department of Computing, has collaborated with BP, BT, NATS, Fujitsu, Barclays Capital, QinetiQ, and Kodak. |
| No date+ | L/A | Prof, Department of Mathematics, spent nine years as a researcher at BP before coming to Imperial. |
| No date+ | L/A | Prof, Business School, was an executive teacher for companies such as KLM, Belgacom, Panasonic, EDF, BP, BT, Finmechanicca and Leo Pharma. |
| No date+ | L/A | Prof, Head of Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, has worked closely with a range of Fortune 100 organizations, including Avnet, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, BP, Chevron, JDA Software, SAP, and SRP. |
| Present | L/A | The Shell Eco-marathon competition, started in 2015, challenges student teams around the world to design, build, test and drive ultra-energy-efficient vehicles. |
| Present | L/A | WE Innovate is a competition with £30,000 in prizes funded by BP. |
| Present | L/A | Research at the Centre for Energy Policy and Technology is partly funded by the BP Sustainable Energy Challenge. |
| Present | L/A | One member of the Energy Futures Lab Advisory Board is from BP. |
| Present | L/A | Prof, Department of Chemical Engineering, received a Royal Academy of Engineering ExxonMobil Teaching Excellence Award in 2013. |
| Present | L/A | Prof, Department of Chemical Engineering, received ExxonMobil European Science & Engineering Program Award in 2017. |
| Present | L/A | Prof, Department of Chemical Engineering, received ExxonMobil Teaching Excellence Award in 2011. |
| Present | L/A | Prof, Department of Chemical Engineering, was an ExxonMobil Teaching Fellow (2005-2009). |
| Present | L/A | Prof, Head of Department of Chemical Engineering, received The Exxon-Mobil Engineering Teaching Fellowship in 2001 and is Director of PETRONAS Centre for Engineering of Multiphase Systems (since 2020) and RAEng/PETRONAS Research Chair in Multiphase Fluid Dynamics (since 2021) and was RAEng/PETRONAS Research Chair from 2016-2021. |
| Present | L/A | The Pore-Scale Modelling and Imaging Research Group requests funding from a consortium of companies including Shell, Saudi Aramco, at a level of £30,000 per year. |
| Present | L/A | The Mattevi Research Group Recieves Funding from Petronas. |
| Present | L | BP is an industry partner of the Sargent Centre. |
| Present | L/A | BP and Shell Global Solutions are among partners of the Theory and Simulation of Materials research group. |
| Present | L/A | The Centre for Doctoral Training in Fluid Dynamics currently has eighteen industrial partners including BP that have declared their support for the CDT and offered to contribute studentships, part-studentships, internships, and commitment of time and expert manpower to teaching and project supervision. |
| Present | L | BP are one of 21 members of the Imperial Business Partners programme, which gives opportunities to collaborate with the College, hold termly events and access student-led projects. |
| Present | L/A | Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering industrial partners includes BP-ICAM and Siemens. |
| Present | L/A | Industrial members of the Research Centre in NDE are Rolls-Royce, Airbus, dstl, BAE Systems, Shell, BP, Jacobs Engineering, Petrobras, EDF, Hitachi, IHIand regulatory bodies such as the ONR and HSE. |
| Present | L/A | Imperial has excellent relations with many Malaysian corporate partners like Petronas. |
| Present | L/A | Shell-Imperial Advanced Interfacial Materials Science (AIMS) Centre exists and its work represents a major step forward in corrosion minimisation for Shell. |
| Present | L/A | Detail of Imperial’s various relationships to BP including BP-ICAM. |
| Present | L/A | Members of the Campbell Group include: MS, whose project is funded by BP-ICAM; FM who worked as a senior process engineer in oil and gas, specialising in LNG and FLNG, for eight years before returning to academia; SS who worked as a Process Engineer at BP Trinidad and Tobago before pursuing their PhD at Imperial. |
| Present | L | A project in the Matar Fluids Group is funded by BP, with a three-month placement also an opportunity. |
| Present | L/A | More details on Prof, Dean of Faculty of Engineering. He is Direct of the Sustainable Gas Institute, and BG Chair in Sustainable Gas and was appointed to the Shell Chair in Sustainable Development in Energy in 2004. |
| Present | A | Prof undertakes a wide range of consultancy with industry. Current and recent customers include Rolls-Royce plc; London Underground; Voith Hydro; Mercedes Formula 1; Deeside Power; and Equinor. |
| Present | L | One project in Material Design for Advanced Manufacturing Group in collaboration with BP-ICAM. |
| Present | L/A | Department of Materials collaborates extensively with Shell. |
| Present | L/A | Prof, Head of Department of Materials, affiliated with Shell-Imperial Advanced Interfacial Materials Science Centre. |
| Present | L/A | Prof, Department of Chemical Engineering, was Director of Shell-Imperial Digital Rocks Lab from 2014-2015 and Director of Phase 1 from 2016-2021. He was Director of Shell Grand Challenge Programme on Clean Fossil Fuels from 2005-2010 which was succeeded by the Qatar Carbonates and Carbon Storage Research Centre (QCCSRC), a $70 mn 10 year research programme, sponsored by Qatar Petroleum, Shell, and Qatar Science and Technology Park, of which he is a Founding Director. His current research is on how we can continue to use fossil fuels for most of this century without causing catastrophic climate change. |
| Present | L/A | Prof, Vice-Dean (Education) for the Faculty of Engineering, affiliated with Shell-Imperial Advanced Interfacial Materials Science Centre. |
| Present | L/A | Emeritus Prof, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, has been Shell Professor of Petroleum Geology since 1993 and is head of the Petroleum Geoscience & Engineering Section and Director of the M.Sc. Petroleum Geoscience course. He has been involved in various aspects of petroleum industry, initially during 15 years with Shell, including research, exploration and production geology and petroleum engineering. He was Chair of Petroleum Geology (Enterprise 1993-2002; Shell 2002-2011) and Geology Custodian (Chief Geologist) for PETRONAS, Malaysia from 2002-2004. |
| Present | L/A | Dr BB, Department of Materials, is a member of the Shell AIMS UTC and the Rolls-Royce Nuclear UTC. They are affiliated with the Shell-Imperial Advanced Interfacial Materials Science Centre. |
| Present | L/A | Visiting Prof, Department of Materials, was Chief Chemist at BP from 2004-2008 and has worked closely with industry, developing a deep partnership with BP which led to setting up a joint discovery project at Imperial. They were invited to join BP’s Technology Advisory Council while Chief Chemist and played an instrumental role in establishing BP’s International Centre for Advanced Materials (BP-ICAM), which they now oversee BP-ICAM. |
| Present | L/A | Global Online MBA graduates, at the Business School, gained employment at a wide range of top global companies including: Aramco and Chevron. |
| Present | L | INEOS, BP, and Petronas are listed as research partners of The Britovsek Group. |
| Present | L/A | Prof, Vice-Provost (Research and Enterprise), is affiliated with Shell-Imperial Advanced Interfacial Materials Science Centre. |
| Present | L/A | A PhD student 2020-Present has funding from Shell as part of Functional Membranes and Energy Materials research group. |
| Present | L/A | Several PhD studentships available at and provided by Shell. |
| Present | L/A | A PhD candidate is part of the Shell University Technology Centre. |
| Present | L/A | A PhD studentship co-funded by Shell University Technology Centre and the EPSRC. |
| Present | L/A | A PhD student joined Imperial with the Beit Fellowship for Scientific Research and Shell PhD Studentship. |
| Present | L/A | MT, Chemical Engineering, Senior Advisor BP, and Prof, formerly Associate Director BP-ICAM are on the Strategic Advisory Board, Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering. |
| Present | L/A | Department of Chemical Engineering’s Materials page notes BP-ICAM as a related centre and highlights a video about membranes research at BP-ICAM. |
| Present | L/A | Experts from BP and INEOS teach parts of the Catalysis: Chemistry and Engineering postgraduate course, and offer networking opportunities. All advertised in the course overview. |
| Present | L/A | The Shell University Technology Centre (UTC) for Fuels and Lubricants is a framework agreement between Imperial and Shell funded by Shell. It was established in 2013, renewed in 2018, and in 2021. It supports researchers from Imperial and Shell. |
| Present | L | BP-ICAM’s leadership contains four member’s of Imperial’s faculty: MR is on the Governance Board and is Armourers & Brasiers’ Chair in Materials Science, Vice Dean (Research) Faculty of Engineering, Imperial; CM is on the Programme Management Board and is Prof of Materials Engineering at Imperial; SJ is part of Health Safety Security and Environment and is Director of Safety, Imperial; and JC is part of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and P&G/RAEng Research Chair in Microflow Engineering, Imperial. |
| No date | L/A | Dr WG, Department of Earth Science, completed a project “Subcritical Water Assisted Transformation of Oil: Sulfur and its Reactions” for BP America. |
| No date | L/A | Alum with PhD Earth Science and Engineering 2012 now Business Development Manager at BP in China focussing on gas and LNG. |
| No date | L/A | One former staff and one alum now at BP and three alum now at PETROBRAS. |
| No date | L/A | One alum whose project was in collaboration with BP immediately went to work as a Process control engineer, ExxonMobil, Baton Rouge Chemical Plant, USA. |
| No date | L/A | Details on an annual Imperial-Shell meeting. |
| No date | L/A | Department of Materials advisory panel includes an Dr CP from Shell. |
| No date | L/A | Core partners of CDT in Sustainable Civil Engineering includes Shell. |
| No date | L/A | The New Energy Challenge is organised in part by Shell. |
| No date | L/A | Imperial has a team in the Shell Eco-Marathon as part of the Energy Futures Lab. |
| No date | L/A | Imperial, Shell and Diamond Light Source launched an EPSRC funded programme on materials and processes for the energy transition. Highlights associated Shell Partnerships: Shell University Technology Centre for Fuels and Lubricants (cements the long-standing relationship between Shell and Imperial); Shell-Imperial Advanced Interfacial Materials Science; and Digital Rocks Lab (a multi-million collaboration between Shell and Imperial). |
| No date | L/A | Digital Rocks Lab is a research centre funded by Shell spread across Departments of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Earth Science & Engineering, and Materials. |
| No date | L/A | A key research theme of the Digital Rocks Lab relates to the production of oil and gas. Other experimental studies started in 1996 with funding from EPSRC, DTI, Shell, and Schlumberger, which formed a research programme funded by Shell, Qatar Petroleum, and the Qatar Science and Technology Park, all primarily to improve petroleum reservoir management. |
| No date | L/A | Details of the Qatar Carbonates and Carbon Storage Research Centre combining the expertise of Qatar Petroleum, Shell, Qatar Science and Technology Park, and Imperial. |
| No date | L/A | There are Shell Petroleum Development Company Niger Delta Postgraduate Scholarships available for Master’s students and scholarships from Petroleum Technology Development Fund Nigeria for Master’s and PhD programmes both for students from Africa. |
| No date | L/A | Research as part of the Non-Destructive Evaluation group sponsored by Shell and Petrobras. |
| No date | L/A | More research as part of the Non-Destructive Evaluation group sponsored by Shell. |
| No date | L/A | More research as part of the Non-Destructive Evaluation group sponsored by Shell and EDF. |
| No date | L/A | Imperial’s Sustainable Gas Institute has partnered with: Cadent; Committee on Climate Change; Decarbonised Gas Alliance; Enagás; Energy Networks Association and Navigant; IEAGHG; Methane Guiding Principles of which SGI are founding members; Oil and Gas Climate Initiative; Shell which is a founding partner and the main funder of the Institute - they’ve worked closely together on several projects and white papers; University of British Columbia; University of Santiago; and the World Bank. |
| No date | L/A | Shell and BP are funders of the Interfacial Electrochemistry Group. |
| No date | L/A | NERC, EU, Royal Society, BP, ION-GX fund Crustal structure research in Department of Earth Science and Engineering. |
| No date | L/A | BP and several other groups fund Prof’s, Centre for Environmental Policy, research and consultancy. |
| No date | L/A | BP sponsor High Temperature inspection and monitoring project in Non-Destructive Evaluation research group. |
| No date | L | Two current research projects in Campbell Group sponsored or funded by BP-ICAM. |
| No date | L/A | Statoil, Schlumberger-Western Geco, Petronas, Petroleum Technology Development Fund of Nigeria (PTDF), iRock Technologies, and PEMEX currently sponsor/support Visiting Prof, Department of Earth Science & Engineering. |
| No date | L/A | One alum secured an internship at BP during final summer of studies working with a North Sea exploration team. Another alum was a member of the Society of Economic Geologists (Imperial SEG) and went on a field trip with them and is now working in the mining sector. |
| No date | L/A | Prof, Centre for Environmental Policy, lists an industrial connection to BP Plc through reports on wind, wave, tidal, and others. |
| No date | L/A | Honorary Practice Fellow Dr CD, Business School, was Head of Structuring and Valuation for Global Power at BP plc before joining Imperial. |
| No date | L/A | Emeritus Prof, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, joined imperial as BP/Royal Academy of Engineering Professor in Engineering for Sustainable Development in 2002, convened BP advanced energy in buildings programme on the Imperial campus, and is Co-director of BP Urban Energy Project. |
| No date | L/A | Dr FF, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, lists BP, Exxon, and Total as industrial connections. |
| No date | L/A | The Centre for Continuing professional development has given customised corporate courses to companies such as: Shell International E&P B.V., Netherlands; Hess, UK; Statoil, UK; Shell Aberdeen, UK; Anglo-American, UK; and Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia. |
| No date | L/A | Imperial lists its industrial partnership with Shell under its impact across Europe. Scientists and engineers from Imperial work with Shell across five labs and centres. |
| No date | L/A | External members of the Sustainability through Life Cycle Approaches research group include industrial connections to Shell, Schlumberger, Petronas, and BP. |
| No date | L/A | Partners of MiReCOL (Mitigation and Remediation of CO2 leakage) include: Imperial; SINTEF Petroleum Research, Norway; IFP Energies nouvelles, France; Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, Germany; University of Edinburgh, UK; Weatherford consultants, Norway; Naftna Industrija Srbije AD, Serbia; Shell Global Solutions International BV, The Netherlands; Statoil Petroleum AS, Norway; and ENGIE Nederland BV, The Netherlands. MiReCOL acknowledges funding from Statoil, Shell, and ENGIE. |
| No date | L/A | A £4 mn, 5-year collaborative project with BP on Urban Energy Systems as part of The Sargent Centre for Process Systems Engineering research group. |
| No date | L/A | Dr JE, Department of Mechanical Engineering, received their PhD studentship from Shell and the ESPRC and spent 15-months placed in Shell technology centres during studies. |
| No date | L/A | A PhD project in Department of Materials fully funded by the EPSRC and Shell. |
| No date | L/A | Shell University Technology Centre sits within Tribology Group. |
| No date | L/A | QCCSRC is a 10 year $70m research programme funded by Qatar Petroleum, Shell and Qatar Science & Technology Park, looking at CCS. It is the largest industry-funded research programme at Imperial. |
| No date | L/A | More details on QCCSRC’s work. |
| No date | L/A | BP listed as research partners with International centre for advanced materials (ICAM). |
| No date | L/A | Prof, Department of Materials, works on BP-ICAM project. |
| No date | L/A | Centre for Transport Engineering and Modelling has collaborated on research projects with BP. |
| No date | L/A | Automated high-throughput platform suite (ATLAS) industrial partners include BP. |
| No date | L/A | Novel Reservoir Modelling and Simulation group, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, works with a wide range of oil and gas companies such as BP and TOTAL on Controlled Salinity Waterflooding. |
| No date | L/A | The Sargent Centre for Process Systems Engineering lists academic friends at BP, Petronas, Shell Research & Technology, Siemens PSE, and Syngenta. |
| No date | L/A | ENERGY-SMARTOPS, Process Automation group, is addressing the integrated control and operation of processes, rotating machinery and electrical equipment to achieve energy savings. It involves end-user companies (BASF, Acciai Speciali Terni, Statoil), companies that supply technology and training, and universities (including Imperial). |
| No date | L/A | Non-Destructive Evaluation has worked with Industrial partners including BAE, BP, British Gas, Chevron, DSTL, Ford Motors, Exxon, MOD, Network Rail, Qinetiq, Rolls Royce, Schlumberger, Shell, Thames Water, and Unilever Research. |
| No date | L/A | Graduate School consultancy work features face-to-face workshops from industry representatives including BP. |
| No date | L/A | The Centre for Advanced Structural Ceramics received funding from Petronas for Graphene Coatings for Pipelines. |
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