Update message by the Chair                    01 June 2020

Upon consultation with various stakeholders, EAGE has decided to host the upcoming ECMOR XVII conference fully-online in September. The move was taken to minimize certain risks associated with organizing the event in the current conditions. 

For over three decades, ECMOR has served as a critical forum for advancing applied mathematics and engineering in the industry. We believe that this important scientific gathering is even more relevant today given the difficult challenges ahead.

We are positive that the ability for the mainly international delegates to attend virtually will serve to increase the participation of colleagues who would find it otherwise difficult or uncomfortable to travel at this time.

During the next month, we will announce further steps for transferring the program online. Our goal will be to provide the same quality of interaction and scientific discussion as you have come to expect, albeit in a more digital environment. 

Detailed instructions on how to prepare the presentation(s) for the online format will follow in due course. A reduced fee structure will also be announced later in June.

Further, we have decided to extend the full paper submission deadline until 15 June 2020. If authors require additional short extensions because of work disruptions related to the pandemic, please email your request to abstracts@eage.org.

Thank you for your patience during this time and we appreciate your continued support of the ECMOR series.

Best regards,

Welcome by the Chair                                Jan-2020

Since the inaugural ECMOR conference in Cambridge, UK, more than three decades ago, ECMOR has been convened every two years, gathering applied mathematicians, engineers and geoscientists from both academia and industry to discuss recent advances in the mathematics of oil recovery. The conference attracts around 250 delegates, providing various opportunities for discussions and exchange of ideas between world specialists in reservoir simulation, modelling and data integration.

Innovations in digitization, artificial intelligence, and automation are creating performance and productivity opportunities for the energy sector. Given the current economics of oil recovery, it is even more important to put mathematics and related digital technologies to good use to increase returns on investments while achieving the highest standards of safety and compliance with regulations. Expected hot topics at the ECMOR XVII includes: use of linear, non-linear, multiscale and data-driven methods for reliable production forecast; risk based optimization of oil production; cloud computing for fast and representative reservoir simulation; application of machine learning techniques for history matching and modelling of unconventional resources. In addition, we expect a high level of continued interest in many other topics including: reservoir characterization, modelling of complex physical phenomena in conventional and unconventional resources, enhanced oil recovery, pore-scale modelling, geochemistry and flow in naturally fractured media. We invite you to contribute to the technical programme, share new ideas within the stimulating atmosphere of ECMOR conferences. Selected contributions from the conference papers will be published in a special issue of the Computational Geosciences journal.

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

Ahmed H. Elsheikh

Chairman, ECMOR XVII