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

• 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

• Reasons for cementing an oil / gas / injection well
• Problems caused by poor cement jobs
• Road map to a successful cement job
• Types of cements and characteristics of each one
• Preparations for cementing a well
• Major API cement classes
• Planning and pre job checks for cementing
• Bulk transportation and storing of cement
• Cement mixing and pumping equipment
• Safety requirement for cementing units

• Different types and grades of casing
• Liners and tie-backs
• Accessories for a good casing cementation
• Mechanic and hydraulic stage tools
• Centralizers
• Floating equipment
• Surface equipment
• Cementing head and plugs
• Cement slurry characteristics
• Cement hydration process
• The effects of pressure and temperature on cement hydration
• Slurry rheology
• Flow regimes
• Main additives for oil well cementing

• The effect of additives
• Contaminants and their effect
• Influences on good cement placement
• The importance of a good mud selection
• Wellbore fluid displacement and mud cake removal
• Effects of mud contamination on slurry strength
• Cement lab testing procedures and terminology
• Cement lab testing equipment
• Secondary cementing techniques
• Squeeze cementing
• Balanced cement plugs
• Multi stage cementing
• Lost circulation cement job
• Liner cementing

• Sustained Casing Pressure (SAP)
• Gas migration
• Flow regimes
• Cementing HPHT wells
• Features required for HPHT slurries
• Gas migration on HPHT wells
• Kick prevention
• Primary cementing calculations

• Cement evaluation procedures
• CBL / VDL examples
• Temperature logs
• Ultrasonic logs