This course builds a firm foundation in the principles and practices of designing, planning and conducting successful casing and cement jobs. The course uses a process-based perspective that takes participants from initial casing depth and size selection, casing and liner design procedures, casing running practices, and planning and executing primary cementing through remedial cementing and plugging operations. During this course, participants will practice cementing calculations, as well as job design exercises and cement evaluation methods using real-life examples.
- Drilling supervisors and Engineers.
- Cement Engineers.
- Production supervisors.
- Rig staff.
- Casing Crew.
- Drillers tool pushers.
- Service company personnel.
- Mud engineers.
- Rig site geologist.
- Operator and service personnel.
To enhance the participants’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to build a solid foundation in the principles and practices of designing, planning and conducting successful casing and cement job.
By the end of this course, the participant will be able to:
- Select casing sizes and setting depths to achieve well objectives.
- Determine of casing loads for design purposes.
- Design casing properties to meet burst, collapse, and tensile strength requirements.
- Conduct casing running operations safely and successfully.
- Determine of best procedures for attaining successful primary cementing.
- Conduct stage jobs, squeeze jobs, and set cement plugs, liner cementing and stage cementing jobs.
- Casing, Cement Placement and Primary Cement
- Primary cementing overview.
- Selecting casing and hole sizes.
- Criteria for successful cementing.
- Casing hardware.
- Setting depths.
- Casing loads.
- Selecting casing and connections.
- Casing stress calculations.
- Cement chemistry.
- Cementing Additives
- Cementing additives.
- Rheology.
- Cement laboratory equipment.
- Mud removal techniques.
- Temperature prediction and importance in job success.
- Set cement properties.
- Special Purpose Cements and Equipment
- Salt cementing.
- Foamed cement.
- Engineered particle slurry cements.
- Lost circulation.
- Selecting appropriate slurries.
- Stage cementing, squeezes, and plugs.
- Preventing gas migration, gas control.
- Cementing equipment.
- Well head equipment.
- Cement Job Designs and Calculations
- Primary cement job design.
- Primary cementing calculations.
- Stage and liner cementing.
- High angle and horizontal cementing.
- Deepwater, plug, and squeeze cementing.
- Cement Job Execution, Procedures, and Evaluation
- Cement job execution.
- Cement job procedures.
- Cement quality evaluation.
- Sonic and ultrasonic tools.
- Cementing design and evaluation software.
