From Mud to Cement - Building Gas Wells

Oilfield Review

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Brufatto, Claudio ^a   Cochran, Jamie ^b,k   Conn, Lee ^c   Power, David ^c,p   El Zeghaty, Said Zaki Abd Alla ^d   Fraboulet, Bernard ^e   Griffin, Tom ^f   James, Simon ^b,k   Munk, Trevor ^b,k   Justus, Frederico ^b,k,l   Levine, Joseph R ^g   Montgomery, Carl ^h,m   Murphy, Dominic ^b,i,n   Pfeiffer, Jochen ^b,o   Pornpoch, Tiraputra ^j   Rishmani, Lara ^b,q  

^a PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

^b M I LLC ^*

^c M I SWACO   (United States)

^d ADMA OPCO   (United Arab Emirates)

^e TOTAL   (France)

^f U States Minerals Mgmt Service   (United States)

^g MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE   (United States)

^h Phillips Research Center 224GB   (United States)

ⁱ BHP Billiton Petroleum   (United Kingdom)

^j PTTEP   (Thailand)

^k SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

^l Shell Drilling Project   (Brazil)

^m M I LLC   (United States)

ⁿ BHP Billiton Field Study Centre   (United Kingdom)

^o DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

^p HALLIBURTON   (United States)

^q Abu Dhabi Company   (United Arab Emirates)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR GAS FLOWS; SUSTAINED CASING PRESSURE (SCP);

BOREHOLES; OIL WELL CASINGS; OIL WELL CEMENTING; OIL WELL DRILLING; OIL WELLS; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

NATURAL GAS;

EID: 0348039970     PISSN: 09231730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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13. Equivalent circulating density is the effective density exerted by a circulating fluid against the formation that takes into account the pressure drop in the annulus above the point being considered.
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16. Sag is defined as settling of particles in the annulus of a well, which can occur when the mud is static or being circulated. Because of the combination of secondary flow and gravitational forces, weighting materials can settle, or sag, in a flowing mud in a high-angle well. If settling is prolonged, the upper part of a wellbore will lose mud density, which lessens the hydrostatic pressure in the hole, allowing an influx of formation fluid to enter the well.
17. This is the American Petroleum Institute (API) standard for cement fluid loss.
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