Preliminary Agenda

9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Programme Committee Meeting

3:00 p.m.

Hotel Check-in

4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

SPE Registration/Poster Set-Up

5:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Poster Set-Up

5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Discussion Leaders and Session Managers/Moderators Briefing

7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Welcome Reception/Dinner

7:00 –  8:00 a.m.

Breakfast

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.

Session 1: Introduction/Opening/Keynote Addresses

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.

Group Photo/Coffee Break

9:30 a.m. – noon

Session 2: Macro Issues

• Definition of Tight Gas 
• Global Perspectives
• Where are we exploiting in tight gas
• Unconventional Gas (low productivity?)

noon – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 – 3:00 p.m.

Session 3: Breakout Session

• Best Practices
• Challenges and Options
• Key Technologies
• Developing Resources
• Economic and Market Issues
• Gas Condensate (production from tight gas formation)

3:00 –  3:15 p.m.

Coffee Break

3:15 – 5 p.m.

Session 4: Coal Bed Methane Lesson Learnt

5:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Session 5: Poster Session

6:30 – 9:30 p.m.

Dinner with Cultural Performance

7:00 – 8:00 a.m.

Breakfast

8:00 – 10:00 a.m.

Session 6: Key Technologies I  – Drilling and Completions

The ability to effectively integrate drilling technology and completion principles is the key to the successful development of many tight gas unconventional resources in the world.  Several relatively new drilling technologies such as underbalanced drilling, multilateral drilling, smart well are aggressively pursued by many operators and service companies worldwide resulting a significantly reduction of challenges and barriers confronted in conventional drilling methods and equipment.  

This session will facilitate the discussion on the benefits and challenges observed when implementing the emerging new technologies such as under balance drilling, multilateral and horizontal drilling and smart well completion in tight gas fields worldwide.   Hopefully from the outcome of this panel discussion, it will lead into a continuous improvement and disciplined application of these new technologies to achieve consistent, low cost drilling and completion performance.

10:00 – 10:15 a.m.

Coffee Break

10:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Session 7: Key Technologies II – Hydraulic Fracturing

• Water Frac
• Hybrid Frac
• Multilateral Frac
• Realtime Monitoring

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Lunch

8:00 – 10:00 a.m.

Session 8: Key Technologies III - Reservoir

• Reservoir Surveillance
• Performance Monitoring & Optimisation

10:00 – 10:15 a.m.

Coffee Break

10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Session 9: Midstream and Economic

• Sour Gas (CO₂, H₂S)
• Processing and Gathering
• Transportation

12:15 – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 – 3:30 p.m.

Session 10: Breakout Session Presentation

• Process/Finding – Full cycle of tight gas

3:30 – 3:45 p.m.

Coffee Break

3:45 – 4:30 p.m.

Session 11: Environment and Policy

4:30 – 5 p.m.

Session 12: Summary and Wrap Up

Evening

Dinner on own arrangement

7:00 – 10:00 a.m.

Breakfast at Leisure

noon

Hotel Check-Out