Geosciences at the service of development

Pau and its community is a true City of the Geosciences, with more than 2000 geologists, geophysicists, reservoir engineers, training instructors, researchers and students of the earth sciences. Pau and its region are an open space of information and debate. Directions in the fields of the environment and sustainable development can only be decided upon with a sound grasp of the Earth, its history, its dynamics and its structure. With a world population of 6.8 billion in 2008 and 8 billion in 2025, performing the best assessment of the Earth’s limited, but essential resources and exploiting them wisely has become a vital necessity. Supporting sustainable development by developing competencies in the geosciences: an ambition that we wish to share, sustainably, with you!

In Pau, the Geosciences playground!

This preserved environment in an exceptional site at the foot of the Pyrenees, composed of sedimentary formations unique for exploration geologists, is also a pool of the best brainpower in the world!

Here, in the heart of the Aquitaine Basin and near the Lacq gasfield, the first French project for CO₂ capture and sequestration has seen the light! Total, with its Scientific and Research Centre, the University of Pau, and world leaders in all domains of research and services – the IFP, Schlumberger, CGG-Veritas, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, Paradigm, have chosen Pau for the quality of its environment and infrastructures, its training offer, its quality of life and the welcome it extends to international geoscientists.  

Feel free to contact us for any question you may have: the Geoscience Club of Pau welcomes you and can help you in all of your R&D, training, partnership and locating projects.