Duration
One week or two days
Director
Industry Guests
Learning Outcome
Participants will be able to plan, engineer, and troubleshoot cement jobs, carry out cement calculations, and interpret cement quality logs (CBL/VDL/USIT).
Course Content
- Cement Chemistry: Manufacture, lab testing methods, sampling
- Cement Additives: Types and formulations
- Casing and Cementing Hardware/Liners: Liner jewellery, liner laps
- Mud Removal: Chemical and mechanical means
- Cement Calculations: Cement yield, single, two-stage, liner, differential pressure
- Stage Cementing
- Floating/Large Casing
- Hydraulics: Annular pressures and Frac considerations
- Salt Problems
- CBL/VDL and USIT Log: Interpretation
- Remedial Cementing and Calculations: Squeeze cementing
- Cement Plugs
- Gas Migration: Causes and cures
- Horizontal Cementing
- Casing Buckling: Minimum cement height calculations
- Well Abandonment