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Cementing
1.Cementing Equipment 2.Cements 3.Displacement 4.Plugback 5.Single Stage 6.Two Stage - Running & Cementing Casing & Liners
Sub group(s)
Remedial Cementing Test 		Open Hole Excess Cement Volume for 20" Surface Casing 110 563
Completion
1.Artificial Lift 2.Completion Equipments 3.Completion Fluids 4.Horizontal / ERD wells 5.Multi-Laterals 6.Multi-phase Flow 7.Perforating 8.Safety Issues 9.Sand control 10.Tubing Stress
Sub group(s)
ESPs Fracc'ing Ops DST SMART Completions 		Plugged Chemical Injection Line 123 346
Data Acquisition
1.Coring Methods 2.FWFD Selection 3.Look Ahead Seismic 4.Permanent Monitoring 5.Subsurface Geophysics 6.Vert. Seismic Profile 7.Well Testing and Sampling 8.Wireline Logging
Sub group(s)
Pipe-conveyed Coring methods 		Wireline OH 41 119
Drilling Fluids
1.Cementing and Zonal Isolation 2.Fluid Properties/Components 3.Formation damage 4.Selection/Design of mud 5.Solids control 		Why using Maganese tetra oxide (Mn2O3) for increasing MW 20+ PPG not so common despite better results than hematite. 71 282
Well Control
1.Barrier Philosophy 2.Bullheading 3.Circulation Kill 4.Detection and Causes of Kicks 5.Relief Wells 6.Volumetric Kill 7.Well Bore Damage 8.Well Control Equipments 9.Well Control Methods 10.Well Integrity Issues 		Casing Rams is Mandatory or Optional 99 500
Well Services
1.Coiled Tubing Tools 2.Rig Specification 3.Subsea Workover
Sub group(s)
Coiled tubing (Wellservices) 		SPE certification 31 77
Drill String Design
torsional strength ratios 76 405
Drilling Equipment
Sub group(s)
Down-hole vibration Hole-openers and under-reamers Bits and other Hole Making Tools 		Downhole WOB Sensors 75 264
Drilling Operations
Sub group(s)
Stuck-pipe Milling Sidetracking Hole Problems 		what could be good topics for undergraduated students for thesis in drilling 175 883
New Technologies
Alternate Barrier elements certification acceptance by Industry 27 37
Performance
Definition of On-bottom/Off-bottom hours 30 104
Rig Specific & Surveys
Jack up minimum leg length above drill floor. 29 114
DWOP Comments
comments on DWOP
Sub group(s)
Best Practices Forum 		Use of an activate-able scraper in a drilling or cleanout BHA 20 104
Drilling & Completion
Sub group(s)
Conventional Coring 		Re-entry on a 60 years old well or drill a new infill well to drain remaining oil? 71 291
Subsea Engineering and Systems
Sub group(s)
Subsea Wellhead Systems Mudline Suspension Systems Mudline Drilling Templates Horizontal Subsea Trees Conventional Subsea Trees Tree on Mudline Deepwater Subsea Trees Subsea Manifolds ROV/ Tree interfaces 		Subsea cellar drilling to avoid icebergs. 9 38
Training and Competency
Recommended training courses. Needing advice on course on a specific topic. 		Mathcad Drilling / well engineering worksheets on line courses? 29 110
Platform maintenance issues
Safety issues. Stop/ Go cards. 		Hercules Deadline Anchor 4 4
HSE
Health and safety Issues
Sub group(s)
Safety Training Safety Alerts DROPS COVID-19 Health Protocol 		Incident with BOP ram door - Public Incident Investigation Report 13 26
Drilling Software
Evaluate and comment on existing Drilling Software as to the utility, ease of use, etc. 1. Existing: a. Technical, b. Operational, c. Office/Engineer, d. Rig Site/Supervisor, e. Other 2. Desired: a. Technical, b. Operational, c. Office/Engineer, d. Rig Site/Supervisor, e. Other 		Peloton Integration to MS Power BI 17 60
Workover
Experience of Drilling Out Cast Iron Bridge Plugs 24 95