o One stage cement jobs
o Two stage jobs
o Liner cementing
o Squeeze cementing
o Cement head and wiper plugs
o Calculations: Volume of cement slurry, number of
Sks, mix water, additives, displacement volumes
o Calculator for all parameters of the cement job
o Pressures during and at end of displacement

o Buoyancy effect on casing
o Relevant factors that influence the success of any
cement job
o Cement job planning and execution
o Casing hardware
o Cement chemistry (focus on class G cement)
o Compressive strength and permeability
o Strength retrogression
o Thixotropic cement slurries
o The importance of BHCT and BHST
o Mud removal and the effect of mud contamination
on compressive strength
o Gas migration

o Lost circulation
o Cementing horizontal wells
o Cement laboratory equipment
o Rheology and its application in oil well cementing
o Flow modules and mud removal
o Spaces and washes
o Cement placement: turbulent and laminar flow
o Special cement systems:
o Engineered particle size cements
o Salt cementing
o Thixotropic cement systems
o Light weight cements
o Foam cement
o Permafrost cement

o Cement quality evaluation logs (cement bond logs)
o Overview of sonic and ultrasonic logs
o Examples of CBL/VDL Log displays and evaluation
of cement quality
o CBL VDL: pros and cons
o The bond index
o Ultrasonic tools: USIT
o Ultrasonic log USIT over sonic log CBL
o Cement logs summary
o Examples of CBL/VDL log displays and evaluation
of cement quality
o USIT case studies

o Major hazards on a cementing operation
o Risk assessment
o Squeeze operations and limitations
o Problems discussions