Welcome to ECMOR 2022

On behalf of EAGE and the ECMOR scientific committee, we are pleased to announce the organization of the European Conference on the Mathematics of Geological Reservoirs, ECMOR 2022. The conference will be held as a 3-day hybrid event with physical attendance and online elements in The Hague, The Netherlands, from the 5th to the 7^th of September 2022. 

For more than 30 years, ECMOR has been a key conference for applied mathematicians, engineers and geoscientists from academia, governmental bodies and industry working on the mathematics of geological reservoirs. In light of the energy transition and climate actions, we have broadened the conference scope to cover advancements of numerical modelling for all underground geologic systems in which fluid flow and its consequent physico-chemical processes play a key role.

The Covid19 pandemic had significant impact on conferences worldwide. In 2020, ECMOR was organized as a fully virtual event with around 200 participants from over 20 countries and 6 continents. Positive participant and organizational experiences have lead us to apply a hybrid format to ECMOR 2022, where physical participation will be encouraged but on-line attendance will be welcomed as well. Full paper presentations will be required to be in person. However, poster presentations can be delivered in two formats, either physical or online.

To meet the 1.5°C global warming target set in the Paris Agreement, carbon emissions should achieve net zero by 2050. This calls for significant changes in the selection of energy resources. As a result, research sponsorship programs, university and research institutes as well as the energy industry are shifting their priority to investigate and develop renewable sources of energy. Subsurface energy systems will play a key role in the energy mix including geothermal power, geo-energy for heating and cooling, H₂ storage as well carbon capture storage for emission sequestration. Innovations in digitalization, artificial intelligence, and automation deliver new opportunities to increase efficiency and productivity of subsurface energy systems.

We invite participants to contribute to the technical programme and share novel ideas. All accepted paper contributions will be published on EAGE’s EarthDoc database. Authors of selected papers will receive an opportunity to publish their contribution in a special edition of the Computational Geoscience Journal.

We look forward to receiving your abstracts and to seeing you in The Hague!

Mickaele Le Ravalec & Ralf Schulze-Riegert

Co-chairs, ECMOR 2022