Conference Announcement | International Youth Scientists' Innovation Summit on Underground Gas Storage and Energy Reserves
Release Time:
2025-11-10
The "International Young Scientists' Innovation Summit on Underground Gas Storage and Energy Reserves" was held in Wuhan from November 14 to 16, 2025.
Since the beginning of the 21st century, with the intensifying global climate change and the urgent need for a transition in energy systems, underground gas storage and underground energy-storage technologies have gradually emerged as crucial tools to address these challenges. These technologies play a pivotal role in today’s energy landscape, offering flexibility in harnessing renewable energy sources and significantly contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, thereby supporting the transition toward a low-carbon economy. At the same time, this field also faces substantial challenges. In the high-pressure, high-temperature, and highly corrosive environments typical of CO₂ geological utilization and storage projects, underground rock formations endure concurrent stress fields and acid-induced corrosion. Moreover, two-phase fluid systems—comprising CO₂ and brine—are simultaneously present within the rock’s pore spaces, making the evolution of the rock’s mechanical strength and poropermeability characteristics an intricate interplay of physical and chemical processes. Similarly, in underground hydrogen storage and energy-storage projects, the flow behavior of gases within reservoirs involves multi-scale phenomena governed by the coupled effects of stress fields, chemical environments, and other interacting factors. Meanwhile, the corrosion resistance and stability of caprock formations and wellbore materials are critical determinants influencing the overall safety and reliability of underground gas and energy storage systems. Given these opportunities and challenges in underground gas storage and energy storage, conducting research and fostering discussions on this topic is not only essential for advancing and refining theoretical frameworks, methodologies, and technological approaches in geomechanics and engineering but also vital for meeting national strategic goals such as achieving carbon neutrality and driving the transformation of our energy systems. To this end, we propose organizing the "International Young Scientists Innovation Summit on Underground Gas Storage and Energy Reserve," aligning with both pressing national priorities and cutting-edge developments in geomechanics and engineering. This summit aims to catalyze interdisciplinary collaboration among fields like geomechanics, engineering, seepage mechanics, geochemistry, environmental science, and engineering, ultimately propelling further progress in research related to underground gas storage and energy storage technologies.
I. Conference Theme
CO 2 Opportunities and challenges facing underground gas storage and underground energy storage technologies, such as geological sequestration, subsurface hydrogen storage, and underground compressed-air energy storage.
II. Organizer
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics
National Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Engineering Safety
Youth Committee of the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering
China Society of Rock Mechanics and Engineering, Low-Carbon Energy Rock Mechanics and Engineering Professional Committee
III. Scope of Submissions
1. CO 2 Geological Utilization and Storage: Theory and Engineering Practice
2. The Multi-field Coupling Mechanism of Stress, Seepage, and Damage During Underground Hydrogen Storage
3. Multi-field, Multi-scale Underground Air Compression Energy Storage
4. Wellbore-Wellbore Surrounding Rock Interaction
5. Multiphysical and Chemophysical Transport Processes in Underground Natural Gas Storage
6. Geomechanical Theory of Rock and Soil Fractures and Cavities, along with Failure Analysis Methods
7. Monitoring and Analysis Techniques for Geomechanical Structure Damage in Underground Gas Storage
8. Development and Utilization of Unconventional Subsurface Resources
IV. Meeting Format
The conference will feature special invited talks—more than 10 internationally renowned experts have been invited to attend, including Professor Martin Blunt, Fellow of both the Royal Society of the UK and the Royal Academy of Engineering—and a China-UK CO 2 Geological Storage Workshop (Road to Net Zero: China-UK Workshop)
on CO 2 Geological Storage, Special Invited Presentations, Thematic Reports, and Poster Presentations.
V. Meeting Time and Location
1. Conference reporting period: November 15–16, 2025
2. Meeting Location: Wuhan Chutian Yuehai International Hotel
3. On-site registration time: November 14, 2025
6. Publication of Conference Papers
The conference welcomes paper submissions. Please submit your papers in English, formatted as a Word document, with a recommended length of 7 to 15 pages. Outstanding English manuscripts will be considered for publication in prestigious journals such as Advances in Geo-Energy Research (subject to peer review). Abstract submission deadline: September 30, 2025; Full-paper submission deadline: November 30, 2025.
VII. Explanation of Conference Registration Fees
Registration Fees: Early-bird registration is now open. Conference delegates can register at an early-bird rate of RMB 1,200, while students enjoy a reduced fee of RMB 900. Delegates interested in registering are kindly requested to transfer the registration fee via bank transfer to the following account by September 30, 2025.
Account Name: Wuhan Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bank of Account Opening: China Construction Bank, Wuhan Institute of Science Branch
Account: 42001237053050000260
Please include the payer's name, organization, and job title in the transfer description, and send a screenshot to yygeot@163.com after completing the transfer.
We welcome universities, research institutions, and scientific product suppliers—both domestic and international—to sponsor the conference and showcase your latest products, equipment, and technologies during the event. For detailed information, please contact the conference organizing team. The conference will feature parallel session presentations as well as poster presentations. If you’re interested in presenting, please send your presentation title (in English) to yygeot@163.com.
VIII. Contact Information for the Organizing Committee
Event coordination contact:
Yin Yue: 17633799718
yygeot@163.com
Gan Mangguang: cumtgmg@163.com
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