Description

Designed for you, if you are...

• Cementing Operators and Supervisors
• Petroleum Engineers
• Production Engineers
• Drilling Engineers
• Completion Engineers
• Oil Field Technical Staff

How we build your confidence

• Instructor-led delivery focusing both on theoretical concepts and practical onsite experience
• Animation and videos on relevant issues
• Examples of cement logs will be presented for interpretation
• Daily recap sessions

The benefits from attending

• Special Cement Systems
• Calculating volumes of cement, mix water and additives
• Critical parameters for any cementing operation
• Displacement rates for effective mud removal
• Selecting the proper additives based on well conditions
• Selecting casing hardware for successful cementing operations
• Interpretation of Cement Bond Logs

Topics

• Course introduction
• Reasons for cementing a well
• Major API cement classes and characteristics of each one
• Primary and secondary cementing
• Zonal isolation in extended reach wells
• Cement transporting, storage and handling equipment

• Surface and downhole equipment used in oil well cementing
• Different types and grades of casings
• Cementing additives: explain the function of the cementing additives
• Design a slurry
• Cement systems for HTHP wells
• Some techniques to control gas

• Cement design
• Mud removal and the effect of mud contamination on compressive strength
• Sequence of operations in a “standard” cementing job
• Two stage / multi stage cement jobs
• Cement composition testing in lab before the job
• SAP pressures caused by poor cementing

• Cement evaluation tools
• Examples and interpretation of logs
• Safety hazards related to a cementing operation
• Video: “Deep Water Horizon” (investigation and lessons learned)

• Primary cementing calculations
  - Designing a slurry taking in consideration the real well conditions
  - Volume of cement slurry, number of Sks, mix water, additives, displacement volumes required
• Lab tests required