Underground Storage Engineering
Published 31 July, 2025
Underground storage of oil & gas is a core strategy for ensuring energy security and sustainable development. Its superior safety, environmental compatibility, and economic benefits are driving a surge of global research interest. To capture international frontiers, facilitate exchange and collaboration among global experts, scholars, and engineers in the field of underground storage, and share innovative research results, engineering experience, and best practices, this special issue is organized to collectively advance the safety, operational efficiency, and sustainable development of projects in this area.
Topics:
- Rock mechanics for underground storage engineering
- Structural geology and hydrogeology for underground storage engineering
- Investigation, design and construction technologies
- Use of lined or unlined rock caverns for oil and gas storage
- Use of aquifer and depleted petroleum fields for gas storage
- Carbon geological sequestration or nuclear waste geological disposal
- Case studies
Guest Editors:
Zhechao Wang
Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
Samintha Perera
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Philippe Vaskou
Cergy-Paris University, Pontoise, France
Per Tengborg
Rock Engineering Research Foundation (BeFo), Stockholm, Sweden
Submission Guidelines:
Manuscripts should be submitted online
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process.
No Article Process Cost (APC) is required for articles.
Please contact the Guest Editors or DRE editorial office (deepre@mail.neu.edu.cn) for any question or query on this SI.
Submission deadline: 31 December 2026