DGMK/ÖGEW Spring Conference 2025 - Subsurface Innovations and Insights - guarantors for a sustainable energy landscape

DGMK/ÖGEW spring conference goes on tour! 2025, we look forward to a lively exchange in Papenburg. Be there when science and industry meet, our experts report and exhibitors present their innovations live. 

• Mid-Nov. Dispatch of exhibitor and sponsor documents.
• End of Nov. Opening of participant registration

Call for Papers

We invite you to submit your abstract. Have a look at the main topics.

•  Petroleum Engineering / Production Engineering
• HSE / Process safety / Monitoring / Emission management
• Repurposing of wells and hydrocarbon infrastructure
• Geosciences
• H2 storage / Energy storage / Underground storage technology
• Geothermal Energy
• CC(U)S
• 'Performing while Transforming' - accelerating change
• Digital transformation / AI
• Drilling technology / Well integrity

Abstracts can be submitted in English or German.

The submission deadline is  January 09, 2025.

We will inform you about the acceptance of your contribution around mid-February 2025.

We kindly ask the speakers to submit an extended abstract for publication in the conference proceedings by March 31, 2025. There are no restrictions on the length of the extended abstract. Illustrations, color and black and white, are permitted. Speakers will receive further information and a Word template from us by e-mail.

Please note that the presenter (oral and poster) must also pay the participation fee.

Conference language: German and English

Poster Award

The DGMK Deutsche Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für nachhaltige Energieträger, Mobilität und Kohlenstoffkreläufe e.V. will once again be awarding the poster prize in 2025. The poster session will take place on May 07, 2025.

The winner of the poster award will receive a free membership in the DGMK for one year and a prize money of EUR 250.

Hotel recommendations in Papenburg

• Kedi Hotel Papenburg
• Best Western Plus Hotel Papenburg
• Arcade house
• FF&E Hotel Engeln - Papenburg

Tour of the Meyer shipyard

Premium bus tour
Discover exclusive areas of the otherwise inaccessible shipyard site. Observe the work at one of the world's most modern shipyards from a completely new perspective. The bus tour takes you directly between the huge shipyard halls and docks,
past ship blocks weighing up to 800 tons.

Tour1                                                                                            
May 06, 2025, 2:45 - 5:30 p.m.                                        
Fee per person: € 27.00 incl. VAT.                           

Tour 2
May 07, 2025, 09:00 - 11:45 a.m.
Fee per person: € 27.00 incl. VAT.

Meeting point is Hotel Alte Werft, Papenburg, Ölmühlenweg 1, Papenburg. Please arrive at the meeting point 15 minutes before the time stated above.

Places are limited. If not enough participants register for the tour, the tour may have to be canceled. Tour 2 can also be offered in English. Please indicate your preferred language when registering.

Cancellation: Cancellation of a booked tour is free of charge until 15.02.2025. After this date, no further free cancelation is possible.

Tour of the EWE UT gas storage facility in Jemgum

EWE GASSPEICHER GmbH "Security of supply, system stability and storage of renewable energies through flexible cavern storage"
The cavern storage facility in Jemgum is one of the most modern and flexible storage facilities in Europe, which is operated in a fully automated and highly flexible manner on four transmission grids in the German and Dutch market area.
The storage facility has been in operation with eight caverns since 2013 and, with its expansion reserves, is well equipped for the energy system of the future.

Tour 3
May 07, 2025
Departure: 08:30 am; Meeting point: Parking lot behind the Hotel Alte Werft, Ölmühlenplatz 
Arrival: approx. 12:30 p.m. Hotel Alte Werft

Please note:
Safety shoes of S3 quality are required.
Helmets are provided on site. The facility is not barrier-free. Persons with pacemakers may not into the system due to technical circumstances.

Cancellation: Cancellation of a booked tour is free of charge until 15.02.2025. After this date, no further free cancelation is possible.

Conference Fees

Registration until 07.03.2025

• Individual members of DGMK/ÖGEW 

• Non-members

Registration from 08.03.2025

• Individual members of DGMK/ÖGEW 

• Non-members

¹ This rate is only valid if the membership fee has been paid.

The amount is payable within 14 days without deduction after receipt of the invoice.

Registration

Please use the registration form below for your binding registration.

After registration you will receive an invoice for the conference fee to be paid. Please do not make any advance payments.

If registration is canceled by March 7, 2025, the DGMK will refund any fees already paid less a processing fee of EUR 30.00. After March 7, 2025, the full conference fee must be invoiced.

A processing fee of EUR 50.00 will be charged for reregistrations of participants.

Group Registration

For collective registrations (8 persons or more), please use the appropriate form and send it fully completed to ines.musekamp@dgmk.de.

Please note that invoices will not be sent out until January 2025.

Registration form individual

Please enter the correct billing address. Invoices will not be sent out until January 2025.