If we consider the main variables to ensure proper mud in hole replacement with cement: stand-off, fluids rheology (friction pressure hierarchy) and placement regime (as related to pumping rate); the amount of cement left in the hole (cement coverage), if no losses, quickly reduces (leading to increase cement returns, either to surface or above the […]
What can you expect in an Expert Post-Job Analysis?
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 […]
How many cementing centralizers does one really need for a given well?
The primary objectives for centralization design (that is the number, type and spacing of cementing centralizers) should satisfy both the need to get the casing to the bottom as well as zonal isolation. However, despite this being apparently simple and obvious, cementers do not seem to appreciate the fact that without the casing at target […]
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 […]
Successful Well Cementing
The case of unawareness Vs. understanding What are the consequences of knowing the outcome of your cement job? Most people would say that knowing the outcome allows the connection of execution and design with job models and assumptions — the path of perfection. To clarify, knowing the cement bond is just part of the “outcome” […]
Cementers Group for Oil and Gas: Join Us
A notice to all cementers in the oil and gas industry! We warmly invite you to our private but friendly online group for cementers. If you are a Cementer / Cement Service Operator / Cement Service Supervisor / Cementing Specialist / Pressure Pumping Operator / Pressure Pumping Supervisor, this is the group for you. This is […]
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