The Sixth China International UGS Academic Conference & International Symposium on Comprehensive Utilization of Underground Space
December 9-11, 2026 Chongqing, China
| 1. Technologies for Natural Gas UGS Development and Operations | |
| (1) Development, Construction, and O&M Technologies for UGS in Depleted Oil and Gas Reservoirs; | (2) Site Selection and Integrated Evaluation Methods for Aquifer UGS; |
| (3) Development, Construction, and O&M Technologies for Cavern-Type UGS; | (4) Dynamic Analysis and Optimization of UGS Operations; |
| (5) Practices and Developments in Commercial UGS Operations in China and Abroad. | |
| 2. Deep Underground Compressed Air Energy Storage Technologies | |
| (1) Current Status and Future Development Trends in the Energy Storage Industry; | (2) Underground Space Design and Operations for Large-Scale Compressed Air Energy Storage; |
| (3) Technology Development and Application of Emerging Underground Energy Storage Technologies; | (4) Deployment Pathways and Institutional Mechanisms for Diverse Energy Storage Technologies; |
| (5) Commercialization Models for Underground Space-Based Compressed Air Energy Storage. | |
| 3. Technologies for UGS and Renewable Energy Integration | |
| (1) Progress in Pilot Tests and Demonstration of Salt Cavern Hydrogen Storage; | (2) Feasibility of Integrated Operations for Hydrogen Production from Green Electricity and Hydrogen Storage; |
| (3) Design Technologies for Different Types of Underground Hydrogen Storage; | (4) Economic Viability of Hydrogen Storage and Policy and Institutional Mechanism Design; |
| (5) Emerging Technologies for Other Types of Underground Hydrogen Storage. | |
| 4. Underground Storage Engineering Technologies and Equipment | |
| (1) Well Engineering Technologies for Different Types of Underground Storage; | (2) Development and Application of New Materials for Underground Gas Storage; |
| (3) New Challenges Posed by Hydrogen Storage to Wellbore Materials and Sealing Performance; | (4) Evaluation and Remediation Technologies for the Reuse of Existing Wells in Underground Storage; |
| (5) Surface Engineering Technologies and Equipment for Different Types of Underground Storage; | (6) Salt cavern Creation Using Multiple Well Configurations and Rehabilitation of Existing Caverns. |
| 5. AI Foundation Models and Digital Twins for UGS | |
| (1) Multi-Physics AI-Integrated Simulation of UGS Geological Formations, Wellbores, and Pipeline Networks; | (2) LLM-Based Decision Support Systems for UGS Operations; |
| (3) Digital Twin-Driven Peak-Shaving Alerts and Intelligent Production Allocation; | (4) Development and Application of Intelligent Agents for Underground Storage; |
| (5) Digital UGS Application Scenarios and Development of Intelligent Platforms; | (6) Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Twins in UGS. |
| 6. UGS Safety and Green Operations | |
| (1) Real-Time Microseismic Monitoring and Early Warning for UGS; | (2) Well Integrity Inspection, Assessment, and Management for UGS; |
| (3) Monitoring, Inspection, and Explosion Protection Technologies for UGS Surface Facilities; | (4) Evaluation and Application of Sealing Performance for Small-Molecule Gases such as Hydrogen and Helium; |
| (5) UGS Carbon Footprint Accounting and Green Certification Systems; | (6) Underground Storage and Environmental Protection. |