ECMOR

8-11 September 2026 |  Porto, Portugal

The energy transition to renewal sources builds on hydrogen as a versatile energy carrier. Underground hydrogen storage (UHS) is currently tested for an industrial large-scale energy supply. While UHS in salt caverns is closest to industrial implementations, porous reservoirs offer larger storage volumes but require further technical evaluations. Modelling and simulation of UHS will play an important contribution to robust operational planning under subsurface uncertainty. 

This one-day workshop on UHS moves from operational challenges, fundamentals to the state of the art, unpacking emerging knowledge, practices, geomodelling and simulation needs, while highlighting open research and engineering questions. It is tailor-made for a multidisciplinary audience ranging from scientists to engineers with different levels of experience in modelling processes in porous media, and it aims to engage those unfamiliar with UHS, but interested in this subject, whether they have a background in mathematics, computer science, AI, geosciences or reservoir engineering.

The workshop layout will offer a sequence of presentations interleaved with feedback sections A poster session will present individual work from participants of the ECMOR conference. Authors of accepted papers relevant to UHS will be invited to present their work during the workshop in addition to delivering oral talks at the conference. 

Organization: Arthur Moncorge, Isabelle Faille, Cominelli Alberto, Ralf Schulze-Riegert