Pore pressure and stress (fracture gradient) prediction remain central to safe and efficient subsurface operations. Their relevance extends across the full life cycle of energy and storage projects: basin evaluation, prospect assessment, well planning, drilling, reservoir development, injection operations, monitoring, abandonment and long-term containment assurance.

In oil and gas, the focus of many organizations is increasingly shifting from frontier exploration towards the development of mature fields, late-life asset management and plug-and-abandonment. This transition raises new questions for the pore pressure and geomechanics community: how do pressure and stress histories affect remaining reserves, wellbore stability, caprock integrity and field redevelopment; and what role does pore pressure play in long-term well integrity after P&A?

Beyond hydrocarbons, pore pressure and stress are equally critical for the safe development of deep geothermal systems, CO2 storage, hydrogen storage and exploration for natural hydrogen. These applications require robust methods to assess the effective stress tensor of the subsurface and how it is linked to depletion, injection response, fault reactivation potential, fracture gradients, seal integrity and coupled hydromechanical processes in various structural settings. In addition, the construction of community-scale pressure and stress datasets and the implementation of transparent data standards become increasingly important to enable uncertainty-aware modelling and physics-informed pore pressure prediction supported by new AI tools which can improve prediction quality, support regional-to-field-scale interpretation and make results accessible beyond project lifetimes and more useful for specialists and non-specialists alike.

Following the successful Pore Pressure Prediction Workshops held in Pau in 2017, Amsterdam in 2019 and online in 2020, the 2027 edition will provide a renewed forum for sharing technical practices, current challenges and emerging solutions in the analysis, estimation and prediction of pore pressure and stress and in subsurface geomechanics.

This workshop will be part of EAGE GeoTech 2027 in Amsterdam, where it will sit alongside three closely related workshops on Induced Seismicity, Distributed Fibre Optic Sensing and Practical Reservoir Monitoring. This setting creates an opportunity to connect pore pressure prediction with broader subsurface technology themes, from drilling and field development to monitoring, storage integrity, seismicity management and data-driven decision-making.

The workshop is therefore addressed to a wide audience, including experts and specialists from oil and gas exploration and field development, deep geothermal energy, underground gas storage (natural gas, CO2, hydrogen), natural hydrogen exploration and research institutes working on subsurface geomechanics, drilling technology, AI in geosciences, tectonics, geodynamic modelling and the mechanical evolution of the Earth’s Upper Crust.