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Casing and cementing a well: problem sheet

A jack-up rig in the Southern North Sea has completed its first drill run creating a 16 borehole which is 1500ft deep.
Before drilling the next section of the borehole into an over pressured zone the wellsite geologist decided to set
casing. A 13 3/8 OD casing has been run the entire length of the open hole (1500ft) and successfully hung of the
casing hangar on the seafloor. You must now calculate:
1. How many barrels of cement are required to cement between the annulus and casing, plus leaving 30ft of
cement in the shoe of the casing for safety reasons?
2. Once you have pumped the cement:
a. how many barrels of mud will be required to chase up the cement and emplace it (as shown it figure
1)?
b. how many pump strokes will this require?
c. and how long will this take?

Figure 1. Schematic diagram showing the end result of the casing and cement job.

Additional information:
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Calculate any annular capacity in bbls/ft = (Dh C ) / 1029.4
Where:
Dh is the drill hole or annulus
C is the casing or drill pipe
1029.4 is a constant conversion factor you use to divide the difference between the square of two diameters of
tubulars (unit should be in ft).
Pump details:
Triplex pump, 98% efficiency, liner size 6, stroke length 12, and maximum strokes per minutes is 70.
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Triplex pump output in bbl/stroke = e x 0.000243 x (Ld) X (SL)


Where:
e is efficiency
Ld is liner diameter in inches
SL in stroke length in inches

Answers:
The learning outcomes of this problem sheets are not merely to get you to consider how to do the simple calculation
but more importantly to:
a. Familiarise yourself with oil field language and terminology;
b. Conceptualise the problem;
c. Be aware of some of the offshore drilling and monitoring procedures related to drilling and borehole
design and development;
d. Identify the different parts of a borehole during exploration;
e. Get a feel for the procedures and scale of operations;
f. Work out a real world problem;
g. Calculate a cement emplacement problem;
h. Using these methods it is possible to calculate a range of transferable skills and other problems e.g.:
circling bottoms up, determining lag time, determining where pay zones may be occurring, calculating
wash-outs or a tight hole.
1.
How many barrels of cement are required to cement between the annulus and casing, plus leaving
30ft of cement in the shoe of the casing for safety reasons?
A1.
This is a simple calculation where you must calculate the capacity between the open hole section and
the OD of the casing plus the 30ft of cement required in the shoe. The correct answer is 117bbls +/- 1bbl.
2.

Once you have pumped the cement:


how many barrels of mud will be required to chase up the cement and emplace it (as shown it figure
1)?
b. how many pump strokes will this require?
c. and how long will this take?
a.

A2a.
To answer this question you must assume the cement slurry has been pumped into the riser and then
calculate how many bbls of drilling mud will be required to chase the cement and spot (emplace) it. To do this you
must calculate the IDs of all sections of the borehole minus the last 30ft of the casing. The answer should be 223bbls
+/-1bbl.
A2b.
Now using the data provided regarding the rig pumps it is possible to work out how many pump
strokes will be needed to conduct this operation. Your answer should be 2542 strokes.
A3c. On a rig time is money and the rig OIM (Offshore Installation Manager) and Company Man will always
want to know how long this operation is going to take. You are provided with strokes per minute of your pumps so you
should be able to determine 36 minutes is required to spot the cement.

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