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Cement Recipe
Cement Type: Class “G”
Latest
Water requirements: 5 gals/sk
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6/22/2019 Slurry Yield: 1.14 cu.ft/sk Cement Plug Example Calculations | Cement Plugs Completion
Balanced | Cementing
Standards
Slurry Density: 0.8223 psi/ft Back to TOP
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Additives
ompletion-
standards.html)
Abandonment
D603: 0.0125 gal/sk
Standards
D080: 0.0287 gal.sk (/drilling/standards/a
bandonment-
D047: 0.0018 gal/sk
standards.html)
Slurry Volume
Standards
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Slurry volume = plug back length x average hole size hallow-gas-
standards.html)
= 493 ft x 0.1518 Drilling Fluids
= 74.8 bbls (logs show 75.5 bbls) Standards
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Allowing for an excess of 10 %. illing-fluids-
Total slurry volume = 1.1 x 75.5 bbls = 83 bbls = 466 cu.ft standards.html)
Cementing
An excess of 10 % means an additional 49 ft plug length, which is in agreement with the Standards
reduced spacer length. (/drilling/standards/c
ementing-
standards.html)
Dry Cement
Cement needed
= slurry volume/yield
Mixwater
Mixwater required:
Additives
All additives are liquids and added to the mixwater. The use of the additives is calculated
back to a concentration mixed in the mixwater:
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6/22/2019 D603 = 0.707 gal/bbl Balanced Cement Plug Example Calculations | Cement Plugs | Cementing
D080 = 1.615 gal/bbl Back to TOP
D047 = 0.101 gal/bbl
D603: 71.9 bbls x 0.707 gal/bbl = 50.83 gal in drums of 15 gal each; 3.39 drums
D080: 71.9 bbls x 1.615 gal/bbl = 111.8 gal in drums of 15 gal each; 7.74 drums
D047: 71.9 bbls x 0.101 gal/bbl = 7.26 gal in drums of 5 gal each; 1.42 drums
To obtain whole numbers of drums D080 to be used, the volume of mixwater is adjusted to
74.5 bbls, by increasing the percentage excess to 12 %. The numbers then become 3.5
drums of D603, 8 drums of D080 and 1.6 drums of D047, to be mixed in 74.5 bbls site water.
The total mix fluid to be held by the mix tank on the rig is:
74.5 bbls + (8 drums x 0.358 bbls/drum) + (3.5 drums x 0.358 bbls/drum) + (1.6 drums x
0.113 bbls/drum) = 78.8 bbls
Displacement Volumes
To calculate the volume to displace accurately, the TOC with the stinger in the cement, has to
be calculated.
83 bbls slurry occupies 83 bbls / 0.1484 bbls/ft = 559 ft annular height (i.e. 559 ft along the
tubular).
The highest estimate of TOC gives the maximum displacement volume allowed:
= 107.7 bbls
Displacement Rates
When the cement reaches the end of the stinger the pump rate has to be slowed down to
meet plug flow condition (< 30 ft/min annular velocity) during placement of the slurry.
= 122 bbls
Thus pumping should be slowed down after string volume minus slurry volume minus
afterflush has been displaced:
= 28.2 bbls
Accepting an annular velocity of 30 ft/min yields (not taking any U-tubing effects into account)
a maximum pumprate Q of:
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