The overriding theme of the conference：

“Challenge the limits with knowledge. Advances in physical processes in subsurface earth materials – to enhance deep Earth energy and mineral extractions, and greenhouse mitigation.”

The sub-themes

Unconventional oil and gas extractions

• Coal seam gas extraction

• Shale gas extraction

• Tight gas extraction

• Heavy oil extraction

• Enhanced oil recovery (EOR)

• Production enhancing techniques including hydraulic fracturing

• Constitutive models

• Coupled process

• Numerical methods

• Reservoir geomechanics

• Wellbore and drilling mechanics

• Sand management techniques

• Maintaining heat exchange

• Cyclic thermal loading

• Energy balance

• Power conversion measures

• Regulation and legislation

• Case studies

• Flow in porous and fractured media

CO₂ Sequestrations

• CO₂ storage in deep coal seams

• CO₂ storage in saline aquifers

• CO₂ storage in shales

• CO₂ storage in depleted oil and gas reservoirs

• Regulation and legislation

• Cap rock integrity

• Coupled hydro-chemico-mechanical processes

• Reservoir geomechanics

• Wellbore and drilling mechanics

• Flow in porous and fractured media

• Numerical methods

• Analytical and theoretical methods

Mining

• Open-cut mining

• Underground mining

• Cave mining

• Coal preparation

• Minerals processing

• Design methods

• Ground supporting and controlling

• Case studies

• Outbursts and other hazards

• Mining and subsidence Geomechanics

• TBM in mining

• Future in mining

• Numerical methods

• Analytical and theoretical methods

Geothermal Energy

• Geothermal energy extraction

• Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS)

• Conventional Geothermal Systems

• Thermal and mechanical response of geothermal energy piles

• Ground source heat pumps operations

• Heat transfer in Rocks

• Numerical methods

• Analytical and theoretical methods

Civil Geotechnical Engineering

• Foundations

• Stability of slopes/pits

• Tunnellings

• Dams

• Rock Mechanics

• Laboratory and Insitu testings

• Critical state soil mechanics

• Numerical methods

• Analytical and theoretical methods

Geo-Environmental Engineering

• Mine waste recycling

• Mine restoration

• Carbon sink

• Groundwater contamination

• Soil carbonations

• Numerical methods

• Analytical and theoretical methods

Underground Coal Mining

• Gas drainage

• Gas outbursts

• Coal outbursts

• Water inrush

• Pillar mining

• Longwall mining

• Mine rehabilitation

• Numerical methods

• Analytical and theoretical methods