Applied Well Cementing Engineering
- 1st Edition - March 25, 2021
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- Editor: Gefei Liu
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 1 9 5 6 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 1 9 4 8 - 5
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Request a sales quoteApplied Well Cementing Engineering delivers the latest technologies, case studies, and procedures to identify the challenges, understand the framework, and implement the solutions for today’s cementing and petroleum engineers. Covering the basics and advances, this contributed reference gives the complete design, flow and job execution in a structured process. Authors, collectively, bring together knowledge from over 250 years of experience in cementing and condense their knowledge into this book. Real-life successful and unsuccessful case studies are included to explain lessons learned about the technologies used today. Other topics include job simulation, displacement efficiency, and hydraulics. A practical guide for cementing engineer, Applied Well Cementing Engineering, gives a critical reference for better job execution.
- Provides a practical guide and industry best practices for both new and seasoned engineers
- Independent chapters enable the readers to quickly access specific subjects
- Gain a complete framework of a cementing job with a detailed road map from casing equipment to plug and abandonment
Cementing Engineer; drilling manager; drilling fluid engineers
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One: Introduction to cementing engineering
- Abstract
- 1.1: What is well cementing?
- 1.2: Why do we cement wells?
- 1.3: How do we cement wells?
- 1.4: Avoid common cementing problems
- 1.5: Overview of the contents
- Chapter Two: Casing string and design
- Abstract
- 2.1: Casing string and design
- 2.2: Casing types and functions
- 2.3: Casing grades and performance properties
- 2.4: Casing design fundamental
- 2.5: Casing connection
- 2.6: Cementing quality and planning consideration in casing design
- 2.7: Casing design example
- Chapter Three: Casing equipment
- Abstract
- 3.1: Casing centralizers
- 3.2: Selection of casing centralizers
- 3.3: Testing of casing centralizers
- 3.4: Closing remarks on casing centralizers
- 3.5: Float equipment
- 3.6: Testing of float equipment
- 3.7: Stage-cementing equipment
- 3.8: Cementing plugs
- 3.9: Quality
- 3.10: Closing remarks
- Chapter Four: Casing running
- Abstract
- 4.1: Casing running equipment and field practices
- 4.2: Drag
- 4.3: Torque
- 4.4: Surge and swab
- Chapter Five: Fluids
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 5.1: Introduction
- 5.2: Wellbore in the context of cement fluid design
- 5.3: Regulatory requirements
- 5.4: Select the fluid sequence
- 5.5: Fluid design considerations
- 5.6: Operational considerations
- 5.7: Slurry design
- 5.8: Spacer design
- 5.9: Laboratory testing
- 5.10: Conclusion
- Chapter Six: Cementing hydraulics
- Abstract
- 6.1: Fluid rheology
- 6.2: Hydraulics models
- 6.3: Flowing BHP
- 6.4: Displacement pressure
- 6.5: Surge and swab pressure
- 6.6: Summary
- Exercise problems
- Chapter Seven: Job simulation and design
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 7.1: Introduction
- 7.2: Cement job objectives in the context for simulation
- 7.3: What is a cement job simulation?
- 7.4: Cement job simulation outputs: What are they used for?
- 7.5: Recommended workflow for cement job simulation
- 7.6: Collect and input the well description and any available well data
- 7.7: Collect and input all the known fluids data
- 7.8: Design additional fluids
- 7.9: Design fluids volumes, pump schedule, and fluids preparation requirements
- 7.10: Perform hydraulics and temperature simulation
- 7.11: Perform casing centralization simulation
- 7.12: Perform annular displacement simulation
- 7.13: Perform special case simulations examples
- 7.14: Generate job program and reports
- 7.15: Simulation for job evaluation
- 7.16: Detailed workflow described in this chapter
- 7.17: Summary of the overall workflows in this chapter
- Chapter Eight: Temperature prediction
- Abstract
- 8.1: Introduction
- 8.2: Temperature logging
- 8.3: The physics
- 8.4: Numerical modeling
- 8.5: Circulating temperature
- 8.6: Temperature in cementing
- 8.7: Using simulators
- Chapter Nine: Displacement efficiency
- Abstract
- 9.1: Introduction
- 9.2: Cement logs
- 9.3: The physics
- 9.4: Methods
- 9.5: Experimental models
- 9.6: Using simulators
- 9.7: Improving displacement efficiency
- Chapter Ten: Job execution
- Abstract
- 10.1: Introduction to job execution
- 10.2: Prejob preparation
- 10.3: Wellsite execution
- 10.4: Postjob reporting
- Chapter Eleven: Cement job evaluation
- Abstract
- 11.1: Introduction
- 11.2: Cement job information
- 11.3: Well observation and monitoring
- 11.4: Pressure integrity tests
- 11.5: Cased-hole acoustic logging
- 11.6: Types of logging tools
- 11.7: Method of acoustic log interpretation
- 11.8: Construction of the wellbore
- 11.9: Comparison of log sections
- 11.10: Correlation at points of change
- 11.11: Consideration of the key factors that affect bond
- 11.12: Conclusion of the interpretation
- 11.13: Interpreting channels
- 11.14: Small channels
- 11.15: Large channels
- 11.16: Mud channels
- 11.17: Crossflow
- 11.18: Temperature logs
- 11.19: Summary
- Chapter Twelve: Plug and abandonment
- Abstract
- 12.1: Well control and cement plug considerations
- 12.2: Cement job computer simulation
- 12.3: Preventing cement contamination
- 12.4: Mechanical separation of fluids
- 12.5: Work string considerations
- 12.6: Operational considerations
- 12.7: Additional slurry laboratory test
- 12.8: Cement blending, storage, and surface equipment
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 25, 2021
- No. of pages (Paperback): 638
- No. of pages (eBook): 638
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128219560
- eBook ISBN: 9780128219485
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Gefei Liu
Gefei Liu is the founder and president of Pegasus Vertex, Inc., a drilling software company in Houston, Texas. He received his BS degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1987 and an MS degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991. Gefei has published more than 20 technical articles on various drilling engineering topics and one book published by Elsevier titled Applied Drilling Circulation Systems with Prof. Boyun Guo. Mr. Liu was nominated for the SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) Drilling Engineering Award in 2012. In May 2018, Gefei, together with his colleague Dr. Hu Dai, was awarded the Meritorious Awards for Engineering Innovation by Hart’s Energy for developing the CEMPRO+ computer model.
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