Welcome message from the Technical Committee Chair

Welcome to the First EAGE Workshop on Mobile Shales: Understanding Processes, Imaging, and Risk.

This workshop brings together researchers and industry professionals to examine how mobile shales form, deform, and evolve across a variety of tectonic settings. Through case studies, modern imaging techniques, and both numerical and physical modeling, we will explore the key controls on mobile shale behavior, including their physical and mechanical properties and their broader implications.

We will combine technical presentations and discussions with a field trip to the Pâclele Mud Volcanos area, which will offer direct observation of active shale mobility while providing an excellent setting to encourage discussion and exchange among participants. The workshop aims to strengthen collaboration between academia and industry, and across different countries. It will help identify key outstanding problems and define directions for new studies and multidisciplinary analyses that can advance our understanding of mobile shales in both scientific and applied contexts.

We are pleased to welcome you and look forward to a productive and engaging workshop.

Sincerely,

Juan I. Soto

Co-Chair of the Technical Committee First EAGE Workshop on Mobile Shales

University of Granada and Bureau of Economic Geology (The University of Texas at Austin)

Alexandra Tamas

Co-Chair of the Technical Committee First EAGE Workshop on Mobile Shales

Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania