EAGE Workshop on Mobile Shales: Understanding Processes, Imaging, and Risks
7 - 9 October 2026 | Bucharest, Romania
First EAGE Workshop on Mobile Shales: Understanding Processes, Imaging, and Risks
The Workshop on Mobile Shales: Understanding Processes, Imaging, and Risk will address a broad range of geological settings in which shale mobility plays a significant role, including sedimentary basins, fold-and-thrust belts, and continental margins. The workshop will focus on the relationships between shale deformation, fluid systems, overpressure development, and structural architecture, and how these factors influence basin evolution and subsurface interpretation.
Contributions will cover field-based observations, seismic and subsurface imaging, numerical and physical modeling, and the characterization of physical and mechanical properties of mobile shale systems. Particular attention will be placed on imaging challenges, scale-dependent processes, and the comparison of contrasting geological settings and datasets.
The workshop format combines technical presentations, dedicated discussion sessions, and a field-based component to the Pâclele Mud Volcanos region, supporting focused scientific exchange and cross-disciplinary interaction.
Workshop Aim
The workshop aims to compare and define the processes that control shale mobility across different tectonic settings. It seeks to improve the integration of field observations, seismic interpretation, and modeling approaches in order to better constrain the structural expression, physical properties, and evolution of mobile shale systems. A further objective is to identify unresolved problems and applied questions and to outline priorities for future research and multidisciplinary studies.
