Energy Geoscience Conference 1 Powering the energy transition through subsurface collaboration

The Energy Geoscience Conference series was initiated as a development from the successful Petroleum Geoscience Conference series which ran from 1974 to 2015. EGC1 was organised by energy geoscientists for energy geoscientists, focussing on geoscientific aspects of 21 st Century energy challenges. The conference was based on the premise and belief that the upstream petroleum sector could help deliver the energy transition by promoting collaboration between academic and industrial geoscientists concerned with energy security, supply, storage and subsurface waste sequestration in order to share subsurface data and understanding. EGC aimed to disseminate high-quality, energy geoscience to a local and global audience via regular conferences and published Proceedings. EGC1 was a three-day meeting supported by the Geological Society and the Geoscience Energy Society of Great Britain that ran from 16 th -18th May 2023 and sold out with over 630 delegates. This paper discusses the rationale and history of the EGC series and outlines the conference development, aims and aspirations. It highlights aspects of the way EGC1 was run in order to promote inclusion, integration and collaboration across sectors. It then reviews the various conference sessions, placing the papers contained within this volume in the context of their respective session and the wider conference.