The purpose of the Drilling Safely breakout session was to address research needs in the area of drilling through hydrate zones in order to access conventional hydrocarbons. The groups composition was well balanced by industry, government, and university representatives. During brainstorming, many new ideas were generated, out of the box thinking occurred, and group consensus was reached. For additional clarity of the results, several events of the session discussed in addition to the product storyboards. Occasionally questions were raised about the current status of a brainstormed idea. For example, a participant may reference his/her knowledge that some other group (not present in the session) is working on a barrier. The group decided to assume that the issue still needed to be addressed. Only when a participant himself/herself was directly involved in such work was the information considered valid.