Here is what a couple of offshore drilling engineers told me about the BP Blowout… However, everything is consistent with a well way over budget, company men taking heat from the home office to finish ...

Summary: Ideal conditions for geothermal power can create some of the biggest cementing challenges for wells. Where traditional cementing methods fail, tailored cement formulations and processes can ...

Subsequently, a tapered casing string was cemented in place with foamed cement by Halliburton Co.—“one technique that can be used to combat annular gas migration,” said FBR analysts. The rig’s BOPs ...

Used for a number of different reasons, cementing protects and seals the wellbore. Most commonly, cementing is used to permanently shut off water penetration into the well. Part of the completion ...

Erle P. Halliburton in 1921 patented an advanced technology for cementing wells that brought greater production and environmental safety to America’s oilfields. With his “Method and Means for ...

A project in which existing 7-in. liners were tied back to surface then cemented stopped casing leaks in the Sarir and Messla oil fields in Libya. Many wells operated by Arabian Gulf Oil Co (AGOCO) in ...

Cement is a mixture of several different types of rocks, crushed and heated to very high temperatures, and then ground to a superfine dust to use in the production of concrete. Typically, cement ...