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Cementing Plugback
Cementing Plugback
Well Drilling
Lesson 31
Plugback Cementing
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Plugback Cementing
Case I: No Spacer
Case II: Equal Height Spacers
Case III: Spacer Ahead of Cmt. (only)
Case IV: Two Unequal Spacers
Mixtures and Solutions
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Read:
Applied Drilling Engineering
Ch. 3. Cementing
HW #16
Due November 22, 2002
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Balanced Cement Plug
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Cementing (Open-Hole Plugging)
ft 3
C annular capacity,
ft
ft 3
T drill pipe capacity,
ft
Height of
plug with Height of plug
pipe in place after pulling pipe
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Case I
T C
ft 3
C annular capacity,
ft
ft 3
T drill pipe capacity,
ft
V volume of slurry, ft 3
H height of cement plug
wit h pipe in place
H Final V H *C H *T
Height H(C T)
V
H
CT
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Example Balanced Plug - Case I
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Example - Case I
2 L
2 10.75 2
V DH L ft (500 ft)
4 4 12
315.15 ft 3
of slurry required
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Example - Case I
If C annular capacity in ft / ft
3
T drillpipe capacity in ft / ft
3
then V (C T)H T C
V
H = Height of Plug,
CT
with Pipe in place
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Example - Case I
(b) cont’d
In this case,
10.75 2 5 2 2
C ft * 1 ft/ft
4 144
0.49394 ft / ft
3
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Example - Case I
(b) cont’d
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V 315.15 ft
H
C T (0.49394 0.0997) ft / ft
3
H 530.9 ft
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Example - Case I
(c) Determine the quantity of mud displacement
inside the DP that will ensure a balanced plug.
Balance requires that the pressures be equal
inside the DP and in the annulus, at 9,000’.
PD PA
ΔP CD PMD PCA PMA
0.052(ρ MD )h MD 0.052(ρ MA )h MA
hMD = hMA PD PA
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Example - Case I
9,000 - 530.9
8,469.1 ft
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Example - Case I
bbl
844.4 ft *
3
3
5.61 ft
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Example - Case I
Also required:
3
315.15 ft
Class H cement 3
req’d 1.18 ft / sk
267.1 sks
VWD VWA
mud T C
T
water VWD VWA
C
cement hW
Height of
water Height of plug
plug with
pipe in place after pulling pipe
mud
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Example, Balanced Plug - Case II
V
H 530.9 ft, height of plug
CT
with drillpipe in place
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Example - Case II
113.6 ft
h WD 113.6 ft
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Example - Case II
8,355.5 ft
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Example - Case II
150.5 bbls
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Pumping Sequence:
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Pumping Sequence
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Case III
Hole fluid density
> density of water
Hydrostatic heads in DS
and annulus must balance
at top of cement slurry
with DS in hole.
hW
Height of
plug with Height of plug
pipe in place after pulling pipe
PA PD 0
PA PD
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Procedure in setting balanced plug
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Procedure in setting balanced plug
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Calculations to Design a Balanced
Open Hole Cement Plug
V1
π 2
4
d L ft 3 or, use Halliburto n tables.
V2 V1 * factor , ft 3
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Calculations for balanced plug - HINT
When dealing with a washed-out hole, where
an excess factor is required, it is usually easier
to calculate a new, effective hole size, and use
that instead of the excess factor.
V
H
TC
3
V2 ft
h
Volinside DP Volannulus (based on d2 ) ft 3
ft
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Calculations for balanced plug - cont’d
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Calculations for balanced plug - cont’d
V2
Number of sx req’d, N
Ysk
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Calculations for balanced plug - cont’d
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