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The following checklist is intended as an aid to primary cementing success. Not all elements
will be applicable to every cement job. Some good practices may be precluded under certain
well conditions.
A. Planning the Job
Accurate temperature information?
Accurate pressure information?
Formation characteristics that affect job considered?
Weak zones
Highly permeable and sub-normally pressured sands
Is multi-stage cementing needed?
Will external casing packer be used?
Plastic salts, sloughing shales, or unconsolidated formation
Special zones such as fresh water aquifers or secondary pay zones
Planned annular clearance adequate for cementing
B. Slurry Design and Testing
Slurry properties meet Chevron criteria?
Density
Thickening Time
Fluid Loss
Free Water
Rheology
Compressive Strength
Transition Time (critical flow potential wells)
C. Blending Cement and Additives
Chevron blending procedures followed
Blend samples tested and compared to pilot test results?
D. Before the Job
Service company informed of job?
Adequate directions to location
Size and type of casing and drill pipe or tubing threads
Connections needed to obtain mud and water
Annulus connection on BOP, if applicable
Amount of extra iron needed if any
Additional items to bring (float equipment, centralizers etc.)
Computer slurry placement simulation received
Hole volume estimate adequate (caliper, offset info, field convention etc)
Mud compatibility testing complete
Spacer design received
Spacer wettability capability confirmed (oil mud only)
Mud-Spacer-Cement density and rheological hierarchy honored
Mixing equipment is clean and in good order
Liquid additive system is calibrated and loaded correctly