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 study compared the cement casing standards of intermediate and production casing strings with analogous cement casing operations in Iran. Well integrity testing is vital in well design, construction ...

P.E. Pilkington Conoco Inc. Houston Evaluating cement between two strings of casing can be a problem. The signal from the outer string of casing can interfere with amplitude measurement if the inner ...

WASHINGTON — Weeks before the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, tests pinpointed problems with the stability of Halliburton's cement foam used to seal BP's doomed Macondo ...

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 ...

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 ...

HOUSTON For more than three months, an oil-weary nation has waited for the moment when engineers would begin pumping cement into BP’s runaway well, in hopes of plugging its flow for good. That moment ...

BP says it has finished pouring cement into the well. “Monitoring of the well is under way in order to confirm the effectiveness of the procedure,” the company said in a statement. BP began pumping ...

HOUSTON BP’s volatile oil well in the Gulf of Mexico may finally be locked down and filled with cement within a matter of days. Engineers for the company are preparing to pump heavy drilling mud and ...

This story profiles one of the Offshore Technology Conference's Spotlight on New Technology Award winners. Cement has been used for decades in the oil and gas industry to secure the area between the ...

Part of the process of preparing a well for further drilling, production or abandonment, cementing a well is the procedure of developing and pumping cement into place in a wellbore. Used for a number ...