Call for Abstracts

Symposium Theme:

IGS will provide a platform to:

Exchange geomechanics experience and know-how among technology developers, providers, and practitioners
Connect global geomechanics expertise and knowledge for energy future
Provide world-class geomechanics training to next generation professionals and students

Abstract Submission Deadline

14 June 2023

CO2 Sequestration and Utilization
Subsurface Hydrogen and Energy Storage
Fundamental Geomechanics
- In-Situ Stress
- Pore Pressure Prediction
- Rock Measurements and Characterization
- Time Dependent and Viscoplastic Rock Behavior
- Rock Physics, Digital Rock
- Shear Physics and Frictional Dynamics
- Structural Geomechanics, Tectonics
- Fault Hydromechanical Behavior – In Situ Data and Modelling
- Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in Geomechanics
Petroleum Geomechanics
- Geomechanics for Carbonates
- Geomechanics for Tight Reservoirs and Unconventionals
- Integrated Studies (geology, geophysics, geomechanics, engineering)
- Seismic Geomechanics
- Drilling Geomechanics
- Well Integrity
- Completion Geomechanics
- Hydraulic Fracturing (Modeling, Lab, Monitoring, Diagnostics, Operations)
- Natural Fracture Characterization
- 3D Reservoir Geomechanics for Field Development
- Production and Depletion Geomechanics

Mining Rock Mechanics
- Sustainable Mining of Rare Earth Elements
- Ore Genesis And Critical Elements and Rock Mass Variability
- Groundwater Resource Management
- Zero Waste Mining and the Circular Economy
- In-Situ Mining
- Trends Of Deeper, Hotter and Robotic Mining/Excavation
- Underground Batteries – Pumped Hydro and Compressed Air Energy Storage
- Surface Mining and In-Pit Waste Disposal
Geomechanics for Geothermal and New Energies Systems
- Deploying Geothermal Energy: Opportunities and Challenges in the Middle East and Africa
- Geothermal Resource Development: Case Studies and Future Technologies
- Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS): Design and Engineering
- Retrofitting Oil and Gas Wells – The New Frontier?
- Joint Development of Geothermal and Solution Mining