| 1.Development Trends of UGS at Home and Abroad | |
| (1) Energy structure transformation and natural gas development strategies in China and abroad; | (2) Peak-shaving demand forecast and future layout of gas storage facilities; |
| (3) Strategic development of gas storage under new energy systems; | (4) International practices and explorations in commercial operation of gas storage; |
| (5) Low-carbon and green transformation of gas storage: exploration and direction; | (6) Other. |
| 2.Construction Technologies for Porous Rock Gas Storage | |
| (1) New design methods for converting various types of oil and gas reservoirs into gas storage facilities; | (2) Sealing performance evaluation technologies for complex oil and gas reservoirs; |
| (3) Efficient working gas recovery models and technologies for complex fluid gas storage; | (4) New technologies for well drilling and reuse/disposal of old wells; |
| (5) R&D and application of key injection and withdrawal equipment; | (6) Integrated simulation technologies under multi-cycle and alternating operation conditions; |
| Other. | |
| 3.Construction Technologies for Salt Cavern Gas Storage | |
| (1) Advanced water-soluble multi-well cavity construction technologies in complex salt formations; | (2) Evaluation and utilization technologies for aged and complex salt caverns; |
| (3) Stability evaluation and thermodynamic simulation technologies for salt caverns; | (4) Safety operation assurance and evaluation technologies for salt cavern gas storage; |
| (5) R&D and application of key equipment for cavern construction and detection; | (6) Other. |
| 4.Operation Optimization Technologies for Gas Storage | |
| (1) Comprehensive studies and practices on gas storage operation pressure optimization; | (2) Measures and technologies to improve single-well productivity; |
| (3) Process optimization and energy consumption control in gas injection and withdrawal; | (4) Optimization technologies for gas production allocation and peak-shaving; |
| (5) Inventory and loss assessment technologies for various types of gas storage; | (6) Cost-reduction and efficiency-enhancement strategies in gas storage operation and management; |
| (7)Other. | |
| 5.Gas Storage Safety and Environmental Protection | |
| (1) Monitoring and evaluation technologies for dynamic sealing of storage geological bodies; | (2) Well integrity assessment and risk mitigation technologies for high-risk wells; |
| (3) Safety monitoring technologies and practices in gas storage operations; | (4) Monitoring and explosion-proof technologies at surface facilities; |
| (5) Green gas storage construction and environmental protection; | (6) Other. |
| 6.New Technologies for Comprehensive Utilization of Underground Space | |
| (1) Current status and strategic demand for underground space utilization in China and abroad; | (2) Site evaluation technologies and utilization strategies for different types of underground spaces; |
| (3) Technological progress and practical applications in underground space utilization; | (4) Current status and development direction of aquifer gas storage technologies; |
| (5) Current status and development direction of underground hydrogen storage technologies; | (6) Current status and development direction of compressed air energy storage technologies; |
| (7) Current status and development direction of large-scale CO₂ geological storage technologies; | (8) Policy research and recommendations on underground space utilization; |
| (9) Other. | |
| 7.Smart Gas Storage Technologies | |
| (1) Progress and current status of smart gas storage construction; | (2) IoT platform development and control for gas storage facilities; |
| (3) Application of artificial intelligence in gas storage; | (4) Integrated coupling simulation of reservoir-well-pipeline systems; |
| (5) Digital twin and cloud platform technologies for gas storage; | (6) Development and application of intelligent decision-making systems for gas storage; |
| (7) Other. | |