ABSTRACT:. The Lower Cretaceous Zubair formation is comprised of sandstones intercalated with shale sequences. The main challenges that were encountered while drilling into this formation included severe wellbore instability-related issues across the weaker formations overlaying the reservoir section (pay zone). These issues have a significant impact on well costs and timeline. In this paper, a comprehensive geomechanical study was carried out to understand the causes of the wellbore failure and to improve drilling design and drilling performance on further development wells in the field. Failure criteria known as Mogi-Coulomb was used to determine an operating mud weight window required for safe drilling. The accuracy of the geomechanical model was examined by comparing predicted wellbore instability with the actual wellbore failure shown on caliper logs at a given mud weight. The analysis identified the cause of wellbore instability, as being inadequate mud weight while drilling the overlying shale formation. In addition, this case demonstrated that the safe operating mud weight window was found in the range of 1.35–1.55 g/cc, while 1.21 g/cc had been applied in practice. The results of this study can be used as a reference for optimal mud weight selection to mitigate wellbore-stability problems in nearby wells in this field.
Safe Mud Weight Window Determination: A Case Study from Southern Iraq
wellbore integrity
failure criteria
mud pressure
proceedings
Wellbore Design
pore pressure
borehole
Reservoir Characterization
strength
failure criterion
Publication Date
Thu Jan 01 2026
Journal Name
Innovations In Sustainable Sports Infrastructure For Eco-friendly Design And Operations
Redacting The Performance of 110m Hurdle Runners Through the Analysis of Physical and Functional Abilities
Hurdling
Sprinting
Performance
Speed
Strength Further studies could increase sample size and employ machine learning to improve the model by including more biomechanical and psychological predictors
increasing the accuracy and applicability of performance predictions in sprint hurdling.
The performance in the 110-meter hurdles at the sprint hurdles event is determined by several physical and physiological qualities. Nonetheless, relatively little attention has been paid to the predictability of such factors in determining race performance. This study seeks to fill this gap by establishing the most critical physical and physiological characteristics affecting elite hurdlers’ performance and creating a statistical model that predicts race times from the identified measurable characteristics. The study utilized a descriptive research design in-volving six elite male hurdlers, all of whom completed a battery of standardized physical and functional tests to assess their explosive lower-body strength, agility, reaction
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Publication Date
Tue Jun 09 2026
Journal Name
Journal Of Studies And Researches Of Sport Education
Design and rationing test compound to assess the performance of the attack straight in terms of power characteristic speed And vital capacity for young players duel weapon Blinds
The research includes a research problem and through the work of a researcher within the jurisdiction of fencing and view the work of some of the coaches of clubs Basra in the game of fencing
the researcher found that the process of selecting the players performed in the traditional manner
a certain physical tests the old and the absence of any tests give or determine the levels of truth to the player's performance in all respects physical and functional skills. The objectives of the research was the design and rationing vehicle tests to assess the level of performance (physical and Mehari and functional) among young players duel
determine numerical indicators of tests designed in accordance with the formula to calculate the degree Define test grades and levels of standard tests designed. The research methodology and procedures of the field has the researcher used the descriptive approach
Publication Date
Sat Oct 01 2016
Journal Name
Journal Of Theoretical And Applied Information Technology
Factors affecting global virtual teams’ performance in software projects
Today the trend is to perform software development work via distributed geographical area among team
individual or even as an organization. However
due to the global market and international presence of many companies
there is a need to implement a global virtual teams. The global virtual team members are gradually engaged in globalized business environments across space
time and organizational boundaries via information and communication technologies. A global virtual team relies on communication
collaboration
and information exchange are the most important criteria in global virtual teams’ operations. The purpose of this paper is to answer two research questions. The first research question is to identify the factors affecting global virtual teams’ performance. A systematic literature review was conducted to answer the first research question. The second research question is on what the rank of the factor affecting the global virtual teams’ performance according to their level of effect on global virtual teams’ performance. Online survey was conducted within 103 developers and IT managers from eight IT companies to answer the second research question. The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS 22) was used to analyze the collected data. In this study
we investigated factors that affect global virtual teams’ performance
factors considered include cultural differences
language problems
time-zone differences
team size
technical problems
lack of trust
lack of sufficient training
and ICT problems. Also the findings indicated that lack of sufficient training is the highest level of effect on global virtual teams’ performance. On the other hand
team size is the lowest level of effect on global virtual teams’ performance. © 2005 - 2016 JATIT & LLS. All rights reserved.
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