1. Field development and asset management 2. Geological characterization of unconventional shale-gas reservoirs 3. Construction and completion of multifractured horizontal wells 4. Well control challenges in unconventional shale plays 5. Wellbore/borehole stability in shale formation 6. Advances in formation evaluation of shale systems 7. Advances in interpretation of diagnostic fracture injection tests 8. Fracture diagnostic testing 9. Proppant placement 10. Advances in geomechanical modeling 11. Advances in flowback analysis: fracturing water production obeys a simple decline model 12. Application of molecular dynamics simulations for shale gas systems 13. Wettability modifiers for enhanced oil recovery from tight and shale reservoirs 14. Scale considerations during petrophysical characterization of shales 15. Challenges associated with lifting and loading in shale gas wellbore systems 16. Production data analysis for shale gas wells 17. Machine learning applications in unconventional shale gas systems 18. Experimental evaluation of enhanced oil recovery in unconventional resource plays: a new screening protocol 19. Spatial data analytics for optimum data declustering in shale systems