7 Liner Running & Cementing
7 Liner Running & Cementing
Backup Liner
slides hanger
OHL
Casing
Casing
handling
accessories
equipment
Cementing
Agenda
• Float/reamer shoe
• Ball catcher
• Landing collar
• Liner hanger [flex-lock hydraulic rotating liner hanger]
• Liner setting mechanism
• Running tool & Releasing mechanism
• TD-2 rotating cement manifold [ball dropping sub, plug releasing lock & flag]
• Pump down plug & Wiper plug
• ZXP packer, setting mechanism & Packer Setting Dogs Subs
• Other accessories
• Cement job [ spherolite, tuned-light cement ]
• SAPESCO casing running equipment
• Back-up slides [VAM-TOP threads, BAKER-LOK, Dull grading & Lubraglide beads]
• 7” OHL actual Operation summary
• SCAB liner actual operation summary
Liner string components
Detailed components [from down upwards] in the sequence of operation:
• Float/reamer shoe
• Ball catcher
• Landing collar
• Liner hanger [flex-lock hydraulic rotating liner hanger]
• Liner setting mechanism
• Running tool & Releasing mechanism
• TD-2 rotating cement manifold [ball dropping sub, plug releasing lock & flag]
• Pump down plug & Wiper plug
• ZXP packer, setting mechanism & Packer Setting Dogs Subs
• Other accessories
Float Shoe
It provides two main functions:
1. The shape of the shoe helps to guide the liner through
open hole.
2. Single or double check valves prevents backflow inside
the liner.
REAMER SHOE with Dual float valve
• Eccentric nose design can climb ledges and negotiate other wellbore
• Rigid standoff stabilizer blades, combined with the cutting structure, clear a path for the
casing or liner and most types of rigid centralizers installed above.
• blade cutting structure facilitates both rotating and reciprocating applications to ensure safe
passage of casing and liners.
• Large flow-directed ports cover the entire wellbore during rotating and reaming and prevent
channeling during cement pumping.
• Dual float valve prevents cement backflow.
• Aluminum nose enables fast drillout with PDC or tri-cone bits.
Tapered and offset tapered noses
help casing pass severe ledges, obstructions, high angles, and previous
sidetracks. These noses also help protect the float valves from being
damaged from debris while running in the hole.
Ball catcher
• A ported baffle used to stop sheared ball
or plugs from resting on the float valve
that may stop the valve from working
properly.
• It’s also ported to allow normal circulation
through it.
• It may be screwed as an individual joint or
inserted.
Landing Collar
• Includes:
1. An integral ball seat
2. liner wiper plug seat.
Liner hanger
The running/setting tool
• The setting tool is used to connect the liner to the drill pipes.
• It carries the liner into the well and provides a reliable releasing
mechanism when the drill pipe must be disconnected.
• There is a screen at top of running tool to allow clean mud into liner
for pressure equalization without destroying or plugging any ports
inside.
• Slick stinger: is a polished tool that seals inside the drillable pack-off
bushing to create a pressure seal at the liner top during the setting
process.
• The wiper plug is attached to the end of the running tool assembly.
Drillable pack-off bushing
APPLICATION
• hydraulic-set liner hanger series is capable of hanging
exceptionally heavy liners.
• corrosion-resistant alloys (CRAs) are used.
• Differential pressure across an integral hydraulic cylinder
strokes the slips into engagement with the casing.
• The dramatic increase in hanging capacity over cone-type
hangers results from state-of-the-art design and finite
element analysis study.
• Loads transfer circumferentially into the slip seat, rather than
radially inward to the mandrel as the liner weight is hung.
• High load stresses on the mandrel beneath the slips are
avoided, preventing collapse of the hanger body under heavy
loading.
• Stress hot spots in the parent casing are eliminated.
FLEX-LOCK III Hydraulic-Set Rotating Liner Hanger
APPLICATION
• The FLEX-LOCK hydraulic-set rotating liner hangers
incorporate a tapered roller bearing assembly that allows the
liner to be rotated with the hanger in the set position while
cementing the liner.
• This bearing package allows the liner to be rotated at higher
RPM than hangers using conventional ball or journal bearing
systems.
Advantages
• Proprietary slip design results in substantially lower and more
uniform stresses in both the parent casing and the hanger mandrel
as axial load is applied
• Kit hanger can be provided with mandrel or without, for mounting
on casing of any weight, grade or thread
• Hydraulic cylinder compatible with liner to meet NACE specifications
when required
• Premium hydraulic cylinder seals withstand up to 10,000 psi (689.6
bar) at 400°F (204°C)
• Tapered roller bearings allow rotation of liner after setting, resulting
in improved cement job
• Double grip retrievable version available
• Non left-hand rotating option for use with HRD-E setting tools
ensures secondary release if required
Setting mechanism
• After ball is dropped and seated in the landing collar…it allows pressuring up the
string to set the liner hanger.
• As pressure is applied at the surface…the hydraulic cylinder of the hanger shears
and strokes the slips up until they contact the casing wall.
• As the weight of the liner is slacked-off, the hanger slips transfers the load to the
previous casing string.
• The liner is now hung, to regain circulation, the setting ball is blown out by
increasing surface pressure to shear the pins in the seat, then sudden drop in
pressure occurs as circulation is re-established, and well is circulated until steady
and smooth pump pressure is obtained.
• Now we can release the setting tool, and that depend on its type.
• C2 liner setting tool > needs 10 right-hand turns, this disengages the float nut
from special carrying thread profile in the body of the top liner packer.
• The drill pipe can now picked-up to ensure that the running tool is released, and
thus we expect to see only the pipe weight on the weight indicator as the liner
weight is now supported on the hanger.
• Only pick-up the liner hanger couple of feet as we don’t want to activate the
packer setting device yet.
• Then slack off sufficient weight to ensure pack-off, we are now ready for the
cement job
SB305-3A actual OHL setting parameters
just to feel numbers on actual example
1. Drop 1 7/16" bronze ball & chase same till land in landing sub,
2. Press up to 2,200 psi to set liner HGR,
3. Bleed pressure to 500 psi,
4. Confirm HGR set by S/OFF liner wt + 30 Klb.
5. Press up to 3,400 psi to shear ball seat & release running tool,
6. Regain circulation with 4 bpm @ 700 psi.
7. P/U string 3 ft, confirm running tool released (lost liner wt "80 Klb").
8. Slack off string 3 ft (drill pipes slack-off weight = 165 Klb) then set 30 Klb on liner HGR.
9. Circulate & rotate liner with while prepare mix fluid.
TOP DRIVE CEMENT MANIFOLD…it contains: pump down plug, and its releasing
lock, plug release flag, ball dropping sub and rotating bearing [in case of rotating
CMT manifold TD-2]
TD CEMENT MANIFOLD
Top Drive cement manifold
Pump-down plug
Flow is diverted
Advantages away around the
• Compact design holds pump-down plug .. Until lock
plugs securely until release is desired is opened and
• Innovative plug stop design eliminates plug is pumped
potential for plug damage at the time
of release
• Internal bypass requires no
external manifold, ideal for use with
top drive or conventional rotary rigs
• Easily stackable for multiple plug
applications
• Releasing mechanism is proven
dependable over thousands of field
runs
Positive Ball Dropping Sub
• Baker Hughes’ positive ball dropping sub provides a
convenient method to release a setting ball from the surface
without breaking a drill pipe connection or removing a
hammer union cap.
Advantages:
1.Positive indication that plug has left the
plug dropping head
2.Drillpipe connections standard to provide
high tensile ratings
Conventional Liner Cementing Plug Systems
APPLICATION
• Cementing plug systems used in liner applications typically serve two basic functions:
1. They serve as physical barriers between the cement and other wellbore fluids as they are
being pumped, while effectively wiping the cement from the tubulars that it's pumped
through.
2. They confirm displacement volumes of both the running string and the liner. Visible pressure
indications signal when the cement has been completely displaced from both the drillpipe
and the liner casing.
Pump-Down Plug Plug release lock
Flow is diverted
APPLICATION
away around the
• The pump-down plug is used to wipe the plug .. Until lock
running string behind (and sometimes in
is opened and
front of) the cement.
plug is pumped
• The pump-down plug may be used to latch
into a liner wiper plug as described later, or
can be used to wipe both the running
string and the liner casing in small-
diameter liner applications.
• Multiple darts may be used to more
effectively wipe the tubulars and reduce
cement contamination. Various wiper fin,
nose, and latch configurations are available
When the lock is
to fit a wide range of applications.
opened .. The
sleeve moves
down and this
flapper opens to
release the plug
Wiper Plug
APPLICATION
• Liner wiper plugs are used to separate cement from the
displacement fluid during cementing operations.
• The Type I liner wiper plug is shear pinned to the bottom of
the running string, below the liner setting tool and pack off.
• At the tail of the cement, a pump-down plug, is released
and follows the cement down the running string.
• When the pump-down plug lands in the liner wiper plug,
pressure is increased and shears the liner wiper plug free,
allowing both plugs to be displaced as a unit to the landing
collar.
• Both types of liner wiper plugs are manufactured of
drillable materials, and are rotationally locked into the
landing collar to prevent spinning during Drill out.
APPLICATION
• liner packer is recognized industry-wide as today's premier high-performance
liner top packer.
• The innovative ZX seal element is designed and constructed to endure
exceptionally high circulation rates and achieve high pressure and temperature
sealing in the most demanding wellbore environments. Flow loop testing at
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over 17 BPM (2.7 m3/min) confirms durability of the ZX seal.
• The packer is compression-set using a packer setting dog sub or a hydraulic
pusher tool.
• The ZXP liner packer is available with or without hold-down slips.
• ZXP packers can be run on 2 RH, and HRD-E liner setting tools.
• The ZXP liner packer is typically run as an integral component of the primary
liner hookup. It may also be run in conjunction with a tieback seal assembly to
serve as a tieback packer in the event remedial repair of the liner top is
necessary.
• Tieback extensions are commonly available in lengths of 6 ft (1.82 m) , 10 ft
(3.04 m) , 15 ft (4.57 m), and 20 ft (6.09 m) .
Advantages
• Most extensively tested packer on the market
• Rugged proprietary seal element design resists swab off at high circulation
rates and mechanical damage
• Allows liner to be run in hole much faster than conventional liner packers,
saving rig time
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• Aflas* (Asahi Glass of Japan) outer cover material compatible with most
wellbore environments
• Available with and without hold-down slips
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• Available with all current running tool profiles
• Can be run with seal assembly as a tieback packer to isolate leaking liner top
• Standard service for many sizes is 10,000 psi (689.6 bar) at 400°F (204°C) ;
high-pressure/high-temperature-rated tools available upon request
It’s designed to apply set down weight to mechanically set liner top packers
like ZXP. A set of spring loaded dogs are used to transfer the set down weight
from the drill string to the liner setting sleeve on the liner packer.
APPLICATION
• Packer setting dog subs are used to activate and pack off compression-
set liner top packers.
• Multiple spring-loaded dogs are compressed within the packer extension
throughout liner running and cementing.
• At the appropriate time, the setting dog sub is raised out of the packer
extension and the dogs expand out to the OD of the extension.
• Setting force is transferred through the dogs and onto the packer
extension as drillpipe weight is slacked off.
OTHER ACCESSORIES
Insert Liner Cementing Equipment
• once installed, is permanently anchored and sealed in place.
The desired accessory is threaded into the bottom or top of the
seal unit, as appropriate.
• The seal unit is a compact aluminum module with a 360 degree
aluminum slip. The unit also includes elastomer and metal-to-
metal seals. Insert cementing float valves are designed and
tested to satisfy API Recommended Practices 10F specifications
installation
• Depending on the required component configuration (packoff,
landing collar, float valve, etc.), accessory components are
added to the bottom or top of the seal unit.
• After the insert unit and its setting tool are positioned inside
the liner joint, hydraulic pressure from a small hand pump is
applied to complete the setting process.
• The setting tool is then removed, and the liner joint is marked
with accessory position and description.
Insert Liner Cementing Equipment
Advantages
• Modular insert seal unit easily converts to landing collar, float collar, guide/float
shoe, drillable packoff, or ball catcher sub
• Simple and reliable installation can be performed at the wellsite
• Eliminates multiple premium thread charges and expensive corrosion-resistant
collar bodies
• Manufactured from drillable aluminum and phenolic components
Insert Liner Cementing Equipment
CEMENTING JOB
Spherolite
• Hollow glass microspheres made from a low heat conductivity glass composition containing a
high vacuum and thin metal coating deposited on the inner wall surface.
• It can be used to make a superior insulation materials in construction of highly efficient solar
energy collectors and insulation systems.
• Also as filter materials in plastic, plastic foam and in concrete and asphalt composition.
Tuned Cementing Solutions (TCS™)
Lightweight Systems
• Halliburton enables you to choose from all three primary categories of lightweight cements,
so your choices can be based on your requirements, such as:
1. Water-extended– Use water-extended slurries when cost is your primary concern.
These slurries can provide the required levels of fill if conditions are not too demanding.
2. Hollow microspheres – Use Tuned Light™ (hollow microspheres) slurries when high
strength or achieving the lowest permeabilities are the main drivers or when a
premium cement is required and foam is not an option.
• Halliburton Tuned Light XL cement blend contains carefully selected additives that produce
lightweight slurries with strengths equal to or better than standard accelerated 16 parts per
gallon (ppg) Class G cement slurries at the low temperatures found in the North Sea mud
line. At a nominal Tuned Light XL slurry weight of 12.7 ppg, the initial set at 50°F is just three
hours while the first compressive strength reaches 5,000 psi. Tuned Light XL slurries are also
mildly thixotropic, which minimizes fallback in situations where surface gas is a potential
problem.
• These special properties are extremely important in areas where operators often drill
through formations near the surface that are weak and nonconsolidated. These formations
tend to break down because their fracture gradient cannot withstand the normal cement
slurry weight of 16 ppg. The result is cement losses and inability to bring cement up to the
mud line.
• Remedial treatments to top-up the primary job involve rig time, more cement and longer
waiting-on-cement (WOC) time. Conventional lightweight slurries may solve the problem of
losses, but do not develop adequate strength to endure the stresses on the conductor
casings. In addition, it is important to consider the low temperatures of 40- to 50°F usually
encountered in the North Sea seabed
Tuned Light® Cement
Important Benefits
• Low Density. Tuned Light XL slurries are mixed and field-proven at a wide range of densities,
maximizing seabed returns and reducing the need for remedial top-up jobs.
• Thixotropic. The Tuned Light XL slurry will gel up in approximately one hour and softy set in
about three hours. In effect, this means that the casing can be released within three hours of
the time the job ends.
• Faster Transition Times. The Tuned Light XL slurry’s zero gel time, measured with
Halliburton’s Mini Macs™ analyzer, was 20 minutes. The transition time was determined to
be 10 minutes at 55°F and 500 psi. Based on Halliburton’s accepted guidelines on gas
migration, the Tuned Light XL slurry qualifies as gas-tight for low gas flow potential (GFP)
factors.
• Compressive Strength. Supporting the conductor is critical. Tuned Light XL slurries develop
compressive strength at low densities and cool temperatures that exceed conventional
slurries under the same conditions.
Cement silos
• There are three silos for cement on the rig and another three for Barite.
• They are all connected together and to the supply line from the boat.
• Silo capacity is measured be weight cell mounted on bottom of it and
connected to gauge that displays the weight in thousands pounds.
• Cement is transferred to the unit by carrying it with pressurized air,
depend on the vacuum pressure that air induces when passes near the
powder cement.
• Also the silo itself is pressurized to force cement out of it.
• Air supply should be opened first before opening the cement line
To Cement unit
Vent AIR
Fill up DISCHARGE
WEIGHT GAUGE
To indicate tank fillage
HIGH PRESSURE LINE
LOAD CELL
Cement from boat
Air
CMT
Silo
• Jam unit
• Wincatt software
Power tong with side door
Revolution
High/low gear
control
Hydraulic piston used to hang the 1.25” pressure
tong in the air tagger to dampen line INLET
vertical vibrations and bouncing
*shouldn’t be placed here+
1” pressure
line outlet
Side door
with safety
control
Revolution
counter
Stabbing guide Thread protector This part rotates and
[with the dies]
everything else is static
Some of CSG
running
equipment
Main motor
This handle rotates that drives
the tong the tong
JAM system
Joint Make-up Analysis system
• JAM - Joint Analyzed Make-Up. Yes it is a computer system that is used to graph each joint on
make up. A load cell is stuck on the tong to snubbing line, this measures torque like the old
torque gauge and a turns counter on tong rotor counts the turns. Computer is set up with
figures of pipe type minimum and optimal torque and shoulder values. Once the joint makes
optimum torque a dump valve will kick in so joint can not be over torqued. Used alot on
chrome and completions.....
• Also referred to as "torque turn" graph display enables you witness the amount of turns vs
the amount of torque through the connection makeup. Interpretation of these graphs
determine whether the connection makeup is acceptable or not. How the seals engage or
not etc. With todays sophisticated connections with shoulders and seals this practice is
essential.
JAM system
Key features:
1. Monitors torque during makeup aSFARR CANADA
Included hardware:
1. Dump valve cable
1/ FARR
2. Power cable
3. CT cable
4. High capacity junction box with pressure transducer
JAM chart
axis-1 of your graph shows no. of turns usually to within 1/100 turns
axis-2 generally indexes 3-torques per graph, shoulder torque to where connection "shoulders",
delta torque to where additional torque past shoulder to final torque.
JAM chart
Max. Torque
Optimum Torque
Min. Torque
Torque
Max. shoulder
Shoulder point
Min. shoulder
Time/Turns
WinCatt™
• WinCatt™ is a software tool which interacts with external control hardware to provide real
time monitoring and control of tubular connection power tong make-up. The graphical user
interface and logical software structure combined with powerful control, data acquisition and
presentation capabilities enable the user to easily specify make-up parameters, control the
make-up process and evaluate quality.
• WinCatt™ was developed with an emphasis on the user's needs for reliability, accuracy, and
ease of use.
High capacity
junction box with
pressure
transducer
Dump valve
cable
Minor details while operation
BACK-UP SLIDES
Back-up slides
• LubraGlide® BEADS
– Advantages, concentrations & Uses
• VAM-TOP thread
– Normal VS. high torque
• BAKERLOK® Thread-Locking Compound
• Dull-bit grading for the 8 ½” bit used in SB305-3A
• Diaphragm pump
LubraGlide® BEADS
It’s MECHANICAL lubricity in the hole.
Advantages
• Reduces torque and drag
• Reduces casing wear
• Is non-abrasive
• Is recoverable & environmentally safe
• Is thermally stable up to 500°F
• Is compatible with both oil and water base mud
• Is Resistance to deformation is greater than 25,000 psi
hydrostatic,
• Thermally stable down hole to 500°F in a drilling
environment
“CE’’ CO-POLYMER
LubraGlide® BEADS
Concentrations:
• Concentrations of 2 – 8 ppb (5.71 – 22.87 Kg/m3)
recommended to control torque and drag
• Concentrations of 8 –12 ppb (22.87 – 34.31 Kg/m3)
recommended for spotting in wire-line operations and
running casing
• The optimum concentration of Lubra-Glide beads is ten
(10) pounds per barrel.
• The volume of fluid to be treated is calculated based on
the volume necessary to cover the open hole from the
bottom of the hole to a point approximately two
hundred (200) feet above the kick off point in the open
hole.
• If the kick off point is already behind casing, then the
entire open hole volume should be treated.
LubraGlide® BEADS
Typical Uses for LUBRA-GLIDE CE CO -POLYMER BEADS®
• Spot in hole prior to running casing or liners
• Spot in hole prior to logging operations
• Allows more true weight to bit
• Spot in key seats to reduce torque, drag, and sticking
problems
• Apply LUBRA-GLIDE CE CO-POLYMER BEADS® fine
beads for torque and drag in coil tubing operations or
with work strings
• Lubricant for OBM or SBM
• Aids in prevention of differential sticking when using
OBM or SBM
• Aids in directional changes or sliding
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Energized metal-to-metal seal
• A patented metal-to-metal seal system offers excellent gas-
tight sealing, under even the most severe combined loads, as
encountered in deviated or long horizontal wells.
• The seal integrity remains constant after repeated make-ups
and break-outs.
• The seal geometry protects against galling.
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• Perform 7" scab liner cement job using HALL CMT unit as follow:
• Pump tuned spacer as spacer ahead
• Pump cement slurry,
• Release 5" DP pump down plug (flag had tripped).
• Pump tuned spacer as spacer behind
• Displace with 45 bbl., 16 ppg weighted OBM pill
• Displace with 10 bbl., 11.2 ppg OBM (pump down plug latch to wiper plug may or may not be
observed).
• Displace with 27.5 bbl. 11.2 ppg OBM
• Pump 7.5 bbl., 16 ppg tuned spacer , will cover the liner top when drill pipe is out to reduce
contamination with displacing mud.
• Displace with 45.5 bbl. 11.2 ppg OBM
• Displace with 10 bbl. 11.2 ppg OBM
• Bump plug at 1400 psi for 10 min, ok, bleed off pressure while sting in, had no return fluid.
Setting the SCAB liner hanger
• Open lines back to cement unit displacement tanks while sting in with seal assy. Till had 10
klb S/Off WT and confirmed NO-GO (at marker#2),
Pressure up t/3200 psi and set 7" scab liner "HMC" hanger. Slack down liner weight plus 30
klb on setting tool and confirmed hanger set.
Pressure up t/3000 psi and release setting tool, bleed off pressure keeping relief valve open,
check string p/u weight had drill pipe weight confirming RT free.
• P/U 5 ft with setting tool with no U-tube observed, R/D BAKER TD2 cement manifold, POOH 6
STD'S 5" DP above expected TOC.
• Drop Halliburton foam ball and conventionally circulate hole clean max. GPM
• POOH W/7'' baker liner running tool to surface and LD same.
• PU & MU 8 1/2" clean out assy. To clean-out top of scab liner.
References
• GUPCO standard operations book.
• Baker liner hanger tools brochure.
• Halliburton casing accessories brochure.
• http://www.halliburton.com/public/cem/contents/Books_and_Catalogs/TECH/Sect02_ce.pdf
• FARR website
http://www.mccoyglobal.com/tubular-products/view/kt5500
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KAMEL ELSAYED, DE
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