This session examines the strategic migration of technical breakthroughs from unconventional shale plays to the tight-gas lifecycle, focusing on accelerating the transition to sustainable energy security through the “Develop, Produce, and Sustain” pillars. It will explore the cross-pollination of technologies across three critical areas: completion design, focused on maximising reservoir contact through high-intensity strategies such as tightly spaced fractures, high-rate slickwater systems, and increased proppant loading; completion evaluation, utilising diagnostic tools such as fibre optics, high-frequency pressure monitoring, tracers, and perforation imaging to refine and validate design execution; and production evaluation, leveraging Rate Transient Analysis (RTA), flowback modelling, and interference testing to de-risk long-term performance.

By synthesising these global unconventional learnings, this session provides a high-impact roadmap for the responsible, economical, and high-performance development of tight-gas resources.

Presentations:

    •  Detecting Pluf Isolation Failures in Real Time Using Surface Acoustic Friction Analysis: A Multi-Basin Study Across Conventional and Unconventional Completions 
       Craig Cipolla, Technical Consultant and Advisor, Seismos

    •  Bridging the Permeability Gap: Unconventional Completion Strategies for Low-Permeability and Tight Gas Reservoirs
       Omar Ishteiwy, Senior Reservoir and Completions Engineer, ResFrac

    •  Unlocking Kuwait’s Unconventionals through Integrated Capability and Technical Excellence across geoscience, reservoir engineering and completion technology
       Etienne Loubens, Principal Exploration Geoscientist, Shell Kuwait