Cementing Operations - RILS

Module 1

Learning Objective: Provide a in depth cementing operations  overview

• Presentation / Course Agenda
• Class activity: Well construction discussion
• Instructor Bio / Participants Introduction
• Different sections of the well (casing sizes, Threads, accessories and hardware)
• Primary cementing (Equipment and procedures)
• Class activity: Cementing calculations
• Criteria for successful cementing Mud removal, temperatre prediction, slurry design
• Criteria for successful cementing execution & Evaluation
• Closing Remarks

Module 2

Learning Objective: Provide a in depth cementing manufacturing  and cement behavior

• Cement Manufacturing
• Class activity: Difference between manufacturing construction cement and Portland cement
• API cement
• Cement hydration process
• Effect of PSD, Temperature, Pressure etc. on cement behaviour
• Aging effect : Long storage, High humidity, High temperature, Carbonation
• Closing remarks

Module 3

Learning Objective: Provide a in depth cementing Additives and their affect  on cement  behavior

• Explain why additives are added to the slurry
• List the families of cementing additives
• Explain the function of various cementing additives
• Class activity: Design theoretically a slurry

Module 4

Learning Objective: Provide a in depth overview on Cement Slurry & Set Cement properties

• Temperature in Oilwell Cement
• Performance Evaluation- Oil Well Cement
• Slurry & Set Cement Lab Test
• Laboratory procedures
• API Procedures
• Exercise
• Other Procedures
• Closing remarks

Module 5

Learning Objective: Provide an overview of Special Cement Systems

• Thixiotropic Slurries
• Expansive Cement
• Low Temperature Right Angle Set
• Permafrost Cements
• Cements for Corrosive Environments
• Acid Soluble Cements
• Salt Cementing
• Foamed Cement

Module 6

Learning Objective: Provide an overview of Special Cement Systems

• High Performance Cement: “Engineered Particle Size Systems” SLB CemCRETE® Technology
• Lost circulation while drilling , Lost circulation and cement slurries
• Annular Formation Fluid Migration
• Closing Remarks

Module 7

Learning Objective: Provide an overview on mud removal concepts

• Mud removal concept and importance in achieving zonal islation
• Flow Curves - Fluids Classification
• Flow Models
• Flow in different pipe configuration (Centric, Eccecentic)
• Criteria for mud removal
• Spacers & Washes
• How to avoid contamination (use of mechanical means)

Module 8

Learning Objective: Provide an overview on  primary cement job design and cement job calculations

• Primary cement job design Hole preparation, RIH the casing, Mud conditioning & Circulation
• Job Objectives, Data Collection, Laboratory Testing, Mud Removal, Cement Fill, Pumping Schedule
• Cement Slurry Selection
• Placement & ECD
• Calculate the required volumes of cement, water and additives for any cement job,
• Calculate the buoyant weight of any casing after completing cement displacement and recommend appropriate actions if the casing might float.
• Closing Remarks

Module 9

Learning Objective: Provide an overview on  Stage and Liner Cement and Horizontal Well cementing

• Two Stage Cementing
• Exercise
• Liner cementing
• Exercise
• Horizontal Well cementing

Module 10

Learning Objective: Provide an overview on  Deepwater, Plug and Squeeze cementing cementing

• Deepwater cementing
• Plug cementing
• Exercise
• Squeeze cementing
• Exercise
• closeout Remarks

Module 11

Learning Objective: Provide an overview on  Cement job Evaluation

• Cement job Evaluation general concepts
• Sonic logs
• CBL/VDL
• log interpretation

Module 12

Learning Objective: Provide an overview on  Cement job Evaluation

• Ultrasonic logs
• USIT
• log interpretation
• END of COURSE round table and feedback