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Advanced Cementing Practices

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Who should attend?

  • This course aims to deepen the understanding and develop the skills needed to design efficiently a cementing program.
Public :
  • Engineers, supervisors and lab professionals involved or interested in cementing in water, geothermal or oil/gas drilling operations.

Level : Proficiency

Course Content

  • TECHNIQUES & JOB PROCEDURES

      • Cementing program.
      • Job planning and preparation:
      • Casing running.
      • Selection of the fluids and flows.
      • Cementing calculations.
      • Primary, surface, multistage, liner cementing.
      • Cement plugs.

  • CEMENT & SLURRIES

      • Cement chemistry, cement with environmental impact reduction (CO2).
      • Special slurries and additives.
      • Formulation and laboratory tests.
      • Rheology.
      • Displacement in eccentered annulus.
      • Salt zone and temperature problems.

  • SPECIAL CASES

      • Gas zone cementing.
      • Deviated and horizontal wells cementing.
      • Remedial techniques.
      • CO2 environment (CO2 resistant cement).

  • CEMENTING PROJECT

      • Design of a whole well cementing job.

  • EVALUATION OF THE CEMENTING JOB

      • Principles and interpretation of the cement logs:
      • Thermometry.
      • Sonic (CBL - VDL).
      • Ultrasonic (USIT).
      • Logs analysis on a real case.

  • KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT

Learning Objectives

  • Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
  • acquire a detailed knowledge of the different cementing techniques,
  • address special cases: liner, highly deviated wells, gas zones,
  • design a full cementing program for a real typical case,
  • assess the quality of a cementing job.

Ways & Means

  • Exercises.
  • Teamwork on a project.
To French entities : IFP Training is QUALIOPI certified ; you may contact your OPCO about potential funding.
Please contact our disabled persons referent to check the accessibility of this training program : referent.handicap@ifptraining.com.