Oil and Gas Well Cementing for Engineers

Practical approach covering the chemistry, processes, and modeling in the field of cementing engineering

Oil and Gas Well Cementing for Engineers brings together traditional technologies and new advancements in well cementing in a reader-friendly way, free of excessive technical information and data while still covering all the major aspects of cementing operations. The text covers theoretical and practical background related to nanocolloids. Laboratory evaluations of cement slurries are described to aid relevant specialists.

Written by highly qualified authors with both theoretical knowledge and field operation experience in the field of cementing engineering, Oil and Gas Well Cementing for Engineers includes information on:

• Main properties of nanocolloids crucial for the practical application in petroleum engineering, such as stability, rheological behavior, and wettability
• Reservoir conditions necessary for nanocolloids formation and nano-gas emulsion hydrodynamics at reservoir condition
• Mechanism of nanoscale dispersion phase impact on physical properties of conventional substances utilized in upstream processes
• Impact of nanoparticles on conventional displacement agents and enhanced flow behavior of nanogels
• New perspective materials for petroleum engineering, such as metal string complexes due to extra metal ions and paddlewheel geometry

Oil and Gas Well Cementing for Engineers covers all the major aspects of cementing operations and is therefore highly suitable as a student primer. Field specialists can make use of the practical side of the book which contains the necessary calculations required on site.