Author: Jaikishan Verma, Senior Research Analyst
18 February 2025
According to a new report by UnivDatos, Tight Gas Market is expected to reach USD Million in 2032 by growing at a CAGR of 5.14%. The rising demand for cleaner energy sources have led to the promulgation of the Tight Gas market.
The worldwide tight gas market is gaining momentum, spurred by the world's growing need for energy. Growing populations, coupled with continuing industrial advancement, make the search for reliable, affordable, and diversified energy an issue. Tight gas, which is a kind of natural gas trapped in low-permeability rock formations, thus becomes an increasingly key consideration for future energy requirements because it offers an easy solution to the problems as defined.
Different from conventional natural gas, however, tight gas is one that is locked in rocks of low permeability that need hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling to be unlocked through advanced methods. Such technology dramatically increased efficiency and soared tight gas cleanliness and availability.
The above scenario describes higher adoption of the new methods in exploration technology, both in America and China, and now in some parts of Africa. This appearance of changing times would also mean that more and more sources are made accessible. Increasingly, tight gas is seen as a greener substitute for coal and oil, as the world veers off to cleaner energy, with the aim of reducing carbon emissions. This is quite pertinent to places trying to tick off climate goals against securing energy. Presently, it is the uptake of technologies that has broadened access to reserves, which had been previously untapped, thereby boosting market size.
With energy demand on an upward trajectory, technology is providing a considerable lift notching up high investments in unconventional exploration for natural gas reserves. That would be the reason why with the passing decades ahead, some resources are developed for energy sources; however, tight gas is considered that particular natural gas drilled in low-permeability rock formations. Most significant of all energy offerings at present, however, is the fact it is found abundantly in those countries which also contain large shale resources like the United States, which has recently emerged as quite an expansive oil and gas producer.
The technique of high-pressure hydraulic slickwater fracturing added with horizontal drilling has greatly favoured the increase of efficiency of tight gas: there is a rapid reduction in production costs and a surge in output. All of this is because tight gas gets attracted to investment on a large scale by both national and international corporations and is anticipated to create an enormous market in these sectors. That has been dictated by diversification of the portfolio for energy making the outbound duration of the ubiquitous oil and natural gas sector going steaming fast in terms of the clients' diversification from even common oil and gas sources.
Because the countries that consume the most power and are developing rapidly industrially have been, as one example, China and India, going ahead, in tight gas, they have an applied investment program. This is to supply the oil and gas import requirements by domestic sources. Environmental issues are also pushing the industry toward cleaner and sustainable acts of extraction.
In the same way, there is an increasing demand in the market for natural gas availability, which is considered to be a source of cleaner energy than coal and oil. With the evolution of new technology and the state fluctuation of transition energy policies seeking cleaner energy resources, the global tight gas market is going to expand many times.
With the growing demand for the cleaner energy solutions as well as countries looking forward to improving their energy mix through shale gases the tight gas market across the globe is further anticipated to rise in the coming years. Additionally, various other factors such as cost-effectiveness and flexibility, technological advancements and growth in natural gas trading and global connectivity are some other crucial aspects that would promulgate the market expansion in developing markets by the year 2024-2032.
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