Services offered

BRGM can help you characterise the underground resources available to meet your energy requirements by assessing the geothermal energy that can be mobilised, on different scales, for sustainable exploitation.

Are you a landscape developer or a community wanting to restore your site or region? BRGM experts can estimate the level of deterioration of your ground and offer suitable solutions to regenerate the ecological services it can provide, while taking into account circular economy principles.

Do you want to reduce your local CO2 emissions? BRGM assesses the potential for integrating a Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) technology into a circular economy to provide you with solutions that are adapted to the specificities of your region.

If you want to characterise a site prior to the installation of an underground CO2 storage facility (depleted hydrocarbon deposit, deep aquifer), or monitor it during the operational phase then BRGM offers you its geophysical and geochemical services applied to the field of land-based underground storage.

BRGM can assist you with the characterisation and development of innovative processes for the treatment of mining and industrial fine tailings with a view to their recovery.

Do you want to exploit a water resource? Do you have a bottling project? Is water used in your industrial process or on a farm, or do you aim to supply drinking water to a community? BRGM offers its support for identifying and characterising water resources with tools adapted to your needs to monitor the evolution of the resource.

Are you an infrastructure or civil engineering works manager or a transmission network operator; are you wondering about seismic risk prevention on your site or nearby in the event of an earthquake? BRGM offers you its earthquake alert transmission and personalised management service to meet your needs for the prevention, safety and continuity of activities at your facilities and structures.

BRGM is mobilising its expertise in earthquake risk prevention to ensure that infrastructures are resilient. It assists project contractors, designers and managers of infrastructures and network operators to help them anticipate risks, comply with regulatory requirements and draw up business continuity plans.

BRGM mobilises its expertise in earthquake risk prevention to help protect industrial sites and dams. It assists project contractors and operators by helping them anticipate risks, comply with regulatory requirements and draw up business continuity plans.

BRGM is able to measure the environmental impacts linked to the supply of mineral raw materials. In this respect, through a better understanding of the flow of materials along value chains, BRGM helps economic players to reduce their environmental impact.

Although they are found in the subsurface of many regions around the world, bedrock aquifers (in granite, schist, gneiss bedrock, etc.) have long been considered as not particularly productive, and very complex to study. BRGM has developed new methods and techniques in order to find, manage and protect groundwater resources more effectively in these environments.

Does your activity mean you and/or your employees come into contact with materials that may contain asbestos? Are you concerned about potential health risks for local residents due to naturally-occurring asbestos in the area? BRGM provides you with all its expertise in detecting and characterising asbestos and elongate mineral particles (EMP) that could represent a health hazard.