Casing and Cementing
Why Attend
Course Objectives
Target Audience
Course Methodology
Why Attend
Why Attend
- Understand casing and cementing fundamentals and their role in safe, reliable well construction.
- Improve well integrity by learning how to achieve effective zonal isolation and prevent fluid migration.
- Learn casing design principles, including loads, burst, collapse, tension, and selection of appropriate casing strings.
- Understand cementing design and execution, including slurry properties, displacement, centralization, and cement placement.
- Identify and troubleshoot common cementing problems, such as poor displacement, channeling, losses, and inadequate bonding.
- Improve operational decision-making during casing running and primary cementing operations.
- Reduce non-productive time and operational risks through better planning and execution.
- Apply industry best practices to real-world drilling and completion challenges.
- Enhance technical competence for engineers, supervisors, and field personnel involved in well construction.
Course Objectives
Requested Objectives
- Selection of casing sizes and setting depths to achieve well objectives.
- Determination of casing loads for design purposes.
- To design casing properties to meet burst, collapse, and tensile strength requirements.
- To conduct casing running operations safely and successfully.
- Specification of cement slurry properties and volumes to meet well objectives.
- Determination of best procedures for attaining successful primary cementing.
- To conduct stage jobs, squeeze jobs, and set cement plugs.
Target Audience
Target Audience
- Drilling Engineers
- Completion Engineers
- Well Engineers
- Cementing Engineers & Specialists
- Drilling Supervisors / Wellsite Supervisors
- Company Man / Wellsite Leaders
- Drilling & Completion Managers
- Casing Design Engineers
- Well Integrity Engineers
- Field Engineers and Service Company Personnel
- Petroleum Engineering students and early-career professionals
Course Methodology
Course Methodology
This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of total tuition hours:
- Lectures
- Workshops, work presentations
- Group Work in case study & Practical Exercises
- Videos and general discussions
- Pre-Test and Post Test
Course Outline
Day - 1
Day 1
CASING, CEMENT PLACEMENT AND PRIMARY CEMENT
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
Day - 2
Day 2
CEMENTING ADDITIVES
CEMENTING ADDITIVES
- Rheology
- Cement laboratory equipment
- Mud removal techniques
- Temperature prediction and importance in job success
- Set cement properties
Day - 3
Day 3
SPECIAL PURPOSE CEMENTS & EQUIPMENT
SPECIAL PURPOSE CEMENTS & 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
Day - 4
Day 4
CEMENT JOB DESIGNS AND CALCULATIONS
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
Day - 5
Day 5
CEMENT JOB EXECUTION, PROCEDURES, AND EVALUATION
CEMENT JOB EXECUTION, PROCEDURES, AND EVALUATION
- Cement job execution
- Cement job procedures
- Cement quality evaluation
- Sonic and ultrasonic tools
- Cementing design and evaluation software