Please support better well cementing. A post-job analysis is among the first steps to developing a learning organization, but what is a learning organization? Before answering this question, just very quickly, let us answer a more basic one; where does quality start? Moreover, by “quality,” I mean measurably meeting requirements, expectations or achieving objectives. Quality […]
Support Better Cementing for All – Empowering Oil Well Cementers
In 2016, I launched Better Cementing for All. Since then, it has been visited by many thousands – and probably by hundreds of oil well cementers. Now, I want to keep it alive. For more than 24 years, I have worked in oil well cementing, offering my services to some of the largest oil corporations […]
Sample Cement Job Evaluation
Pressure analysis of a 9 5/8” casing cementing operation. Information gathering for cement evaluation starts with the basic details of the job design, including casings information, wellbore details, formation and temperature pressures. Proper post-job analysis continues with kind of an investigation process where key information is gathered from job reports from different sources, including cement […]
New CemPRO+ Review
Following my CemPRO+ review post a little more than two years ago, I have broadened my knowledge of this cementing application, not only providing engineering and post-job analysis to my customers but also and during some time, actively designing cement jobs in an ongoing busy operation. Furthermore, I even found myself in the middle of […]
Choosing the Right People for Cementing Engineering Services
It’s been a tough couple of years… After all the time I’ve spent in this challenging industry providing cementing engineering services, the last few years have been incredibly interesting. I know most people consider these previous couple of (2015 – 2016) years probably the worst for the oil industry ever, and if we go by […]
KEY ELEMENTS OF A SUCCESFUL CEMENT JOB
Overview Depending on who explains it to you, there can be several possible ‘key elements’ to get a successful cement job in place. Some people would emphasize the design. Others would prioritize the execution aspects instead. In my case, I like to think that a successful cement job can only be achieved by a combination […]
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