Selected contributions from the 14th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery (ECMOR XIV)

Abstract

The 14th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery (ECMOR XIV) was held in Catania, a beautiful city lying between Mount Etna and the Mediterranean Sea on the magnificent island of Sicily (Italy) [1] from 9 to 11 September, 2014. ECMOR has been organized every even year since 1988 to provide a place where engineers and scientists from Academia and the oil and gas industry could meet to focus advancements on mathematical aspects of reservoir simulation and modelling. After ECMOR VI, held in Scotland in September 1998, the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) included this event in its regular program. In Catania, a total of 88 oral presentations and 47 posters covered a wide range of topics and received attention from 185 attendees, a new record for ECMOR. The full list of papers presented at the conference can be found on the EAGE website (http://www. eage.org/event/index.php?eventid=1093&evp=12651), and all papers are electronically accessible via the EarthDoc online data base (http://earthdoc.eage.org/). This issue of Computational Geosciences presents 24 papers developed upon selected works from the Sicilian conference and that have been peer reviewed according to the journal’s policy. These papers address complex mathematical challenges arising from the need to meet the world energy demand in the next years, and provide evidences of the technical success of ECMOR XIV. I wish to congratulate the authors for