Well Cement Integrity offers a comprehensive examination of the critical factors influencing the long-term safety and reliability of wellbore barriers. The book synthesizes recent advances in evaluation techniques, including experimental laboratory testing, field diagnostics, and innovative data-driven methods such as AI and machine learning. It addresses the unique challenges faced in high-pressure, high-temperature, geothermal, and CCUS environments, providing practical guidance for assessing and maintaining cement integrity throughout the entire well lifecycle. The content emphasizes a holistic approach, integrating laboratory assessments, logging tools, pressure testing, and long-term monitoring strategies to enable practitioners to make informed decisions and implement effective remediation measures.
The book's structure includes detailed chapters on topics such as cement bond logs, sustained casing pressure, cement plugs, and plug-and-abandonment procedures. It explores the fundamentals of experimental evaluation, discusses the causes and prevention of casing failures, and presents case studies illustrating real-world applications. Additional chapters focus on the evaluation of cement integrity in specialized scenarios like CCUS and geothermal wells, as well as cutting-edge techniques involving AI and machine learning to predict and analyze well performance. Practical procedures and industry standards are incorporated to support effective decision-making and operational excellence.
1. Chapter 1 Introduction - p. 1 2. Chapter 2 Holistic cement evaluation - p. 15 3. Chapter 3 Experimental lab cement evaluation - p. 23 4. Chapter 4 Sustained casing pressures—Prevention monitoring and remediation - p. 53 5. Chapter 5 Cement bond logs and evaluation - p. 87 6. Chapter 6 Pressure integrity tests - p. 103 7. Chapter 7 Temperature noise and fiber optic logs - p. 137 8. Chapter 8 Corrosion and other logs - p. 161 9. Chapter 9 Fundamentals of cement plugs and evaluation - p. 171 10. Chapter 10 Data-driven and machine learning approaches to cement evaluation - p. 185 11. Chapter 11 Plug and abandonment - p. 197 12. Chapter 12 Cement integrity in carbon capture, utilization, and storage wells - p. 225 13. Chapter 13 High-pressure high-temperature and geothermal cement integrity evaluation - p. 237 14. Index - p. 255
Well Cement Integrity offers a comprehensive examination of the critical factors influencing the long-term safety and reliability of wellbore barriers. The book synthesizes recent advances in evaluation techniques, including experimental laboratory testing, field diagnostics, and innovative data-driven methods such as AI and machine learning. It addresses the unique challenges faced in high-pressure, high-temperature, geothermal, and CCUS environments, providing practical guidance for assessing and maintaining cement integrity throughout the entire well lifecycle. The content emphasizes a holistic approach, integrating laboratory assessments, logging tools, pressure testing, and long-term monitoring strategies to enable practitioners to make informed decisions and implement effective remediation measures.
The book's structure includes detailed chapters on topics such as cement bond logs, sustained casing pressure, cement plugs, and plug-and-abandonment procedures. It explores the fundamentals of experimental evaluation, discusses the causes and prevention of casing failures, and presents case studies illustrating real-world applications. Additional chapters focus on the evaluation of cement integrity in specialized scenarios like CCUS and geothermal wells, as well as cutting-edge techniques involving AI and machine learning to predict and analyze well performance. Practical procedures and industry standards are incorporated to support effective decision-making and operational excellence.
1. Chapter 1 Introduction - p. 1 2. Chapter 2 Holistic cement evaluation - p. 15 3. Chapter 3 Experimental lab cement evaluation - p. 23 4. Chapter 4 Sustained casing pressures—Prevention monitoring and remediation - p. 53 5. Chapter 5 Cement bond logs and evaluation - p. 87 6. Chapter 6 Pressure integrity tests - p. 103 7. Chapter 7 Temperature noise and fiber optic logs - p. 137 8. Chapter 8 Corrosion and other logs - p. 161 9. Chapter 9 Fundamentals of cement plugs and evaluation - p. 171 10. Chapter 10 Data-driven and machine learning approaches to cement evaluation - p. 185 11. Chapter 11 Plug and abandonment - p. 197 12. Chapter 12 Cement integrity in carbon capture, utilization, and storage wells - p. 225 13. Chapter 13 High-pressure high-temperature and geothermal cement integrity evaluation - p. 237 14. Index - p. 255
