Hi Rui,

These are the current hot topics

Hydraulic fracturing

Enhanced oil/gas recovery

Smart well engineering

I think the reservoir characterization and modelling as well as increasing the production potentiality of the reservoir are among the good topics

Hi Rui,

See Dr Alxey Ruzhnikov's contribution, here.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexey_Ruzhnikov/contributions

There are a lot of stuff  there which might fire your imagination. 

Rui, this is really a very personal choice but for my students I suggest that they consider the following: 1) What is the area that you really (passionate about it) really like. 2) Wells, reservoir, facilities (subsea) or process ?? 3) What do you expect to do after you finish your studies i.e. stay in academia, work for a service company or an operator ?? 4) What is your background, computationally strong, something other than PE...?. If you can answer those questions then you can have some clarity that will lead you to the right topic for you.  Do not get carried away by the hype on a particular subject or because it is fashionable. I hope it helps

Hi Rui,

Stick to what you know, which I think is drilling. Market will pick up by the time you are done.  

Being jack of all arts and master of none is not good.  Concentrate your effort on one thing alone and raise above others. 

Rui,

As I have experience as MSc and PhD student and supervising students from distinct Universities from Brazil, we believe that it is worth to list important things about it:

1)      The main target of a MSc or PhD student is to get the diploma – don’t forget it;

2)      The best strategy consists of using as much as possible the expertise and the support already available at the University where the student is developing his studies;

3)      The student should spend some time to discover and evaluate the capabilities (competences, areas of interest, research projects, R&D main clients and their needs, R&D ideas from professors, etc) available at the University. It is capable of making everything easier and smoother.

4)      If everything listed above has a good degree of alignment with the MSc ideas and interest, then it will be strategically interesting to develop something in accordance with the student previous motivations.

Hi Antonio,

Very good advice for all young people looking forward to do MSc or PhD.  Container matters not the content.  

People at the university trumps the subject; except you are looking for a "get rich quick" scheme. 

Hi all,

I´m ending a MSc in Oil & Gas Engineering, please could you help me with some topics for my thesis.

I´m looking for Drilling Topics.

kind regards

Hi Alexander,

First, read my previous message about this topic (Apr 26, 2016).

After that, as I have worked in Argentina, recently, I believe MPD is an important subject for the new exploratory gas frontiers. Therefore, MPD is indeed an important area of research. Regarding, MPD you can deal with the followings topics:

1)      Control algorithms for the MPD automation;

2)      Development of algorithms to calculate the IME (Influx Manageable Envelope);

Best regards

Antonio, Thank you for your advice!

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