Water absorption and shrinkage behaviour of early-age cement in wellbore annulus

Sasaki, Tsubasa; Soga, Kenichi; Abuhaikal, Muhannad

doi:10.1016/j.petrol.2018.05.065

Title: Water absorption and shrinkage behaviour of early-age cement in wellbore annulus

Abstract

Controlling cement shrinkage in a wellbore is well-known as being important in maintaining its integrity. Although numerous laboratory experiments on the water absorption and shrinkage behaviour of oil well cement have been reported in the past, such behaviour in the wellbore annulus with consideration of pore water migration from the surrounding formation has seldom been examined. In this study, using a cement shrinkage model calibrated against available experimental data, a coupled hydromechanical finite element analysis of a cement-formation model is conducted to simulate the water migration, absorption and shrinkage behaviour of early-age cement placed in the annulus of a wellbore. The objectives of this study are (i) to identify the threshold permeability value of the formation above which there is no longer a bottleneck for pore water to flow into the cement and (ii) to estimate a reasonable range of cement bulk shrinkage volume in wellbore annulus geometry. Results show that the threshold permeability of the formation would be around 0.1 mD for three different types of cement examined in this study: Class G cement, rapid setting (RS) cement and Schlumberger optimized particle size distribution (OPSD) technology cement. The bulk shrinkage volume varies from 0.01% to 2.4% depending on cementmore »« less

Authors:

Sasaki, Tsubasa ^[1]; Soga, Kenichi ^[2]; Abuhaikal, Muhannad ^[3]

Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom). Dept. of Engineering
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Civil and Environmental Engineering
Schlumberger-Doll Research Center, Cambridge, MA (United States)

Publication Date:: 2018-10-01

Research Org.:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

OSTI Identifier:: 1567133

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 169; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0920-4105

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 02 PETROLEUM; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; cement shrinkage; capillary suction; finite element analysis; The Nankai Trough; methane hydrate; optimized particle size distribution (OPSD) technology

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                    Sasaki, Tsubasa, Soga, Kenichi, and Abuhaikal, Muhannad. Water absorption and shrinkage behaviour of early-age cement in wellbore annulus.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
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                    Sasaki, Tsubasa, Soga, Kenichi, & Abuhaikal, Muhannad. Water absorption and shrinkage behaviour of early-age cement in wellbore annulus.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2018.05.065

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"Water absorption and shrinkage behaviour of early-age cement in wellbore annulus".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2018.05.065.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1567133.

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@article{osti_1567133,

  title        = {Water absorption and shrinkage behaviour of early-age cement in wellbore annulus},

  author       = {Sasaki, Tsubasa and Soga, Kenichi and Abuhaikal, Muhannad},

  abstractNote = {Controlling cement shrinkage in a wellbore is well-known as being important in maintaining its integrity. Although numerous laboratory experiments on the water absorption and shrinkage behaviour of oil well cement have been reported in the past, such behaviour in the wellbore annulus with consideration of pore water migration from the surrounding formation has seldom been examined. In this study, using a cement shrinkage model calibrated against available experimental data, a coupled hydromechanical finite element analysis of a cement-formation model is conducted to simulate the water migration, absorption and shrinkage behaviour of early-age cement placed in the annulus of a wellbore. The objectives of this study are (i) to identify the threshold permeability value of the formation above which there is no longer a bottleneck for pore water to flow into the cement and (ii) to estimate a reasonable range of cement bulk shrinkage volume in wellbore annulus geometry. Results show that the threshold permeability of the formation would be around 0.1 mD for three different types of cement examined in this study: Class G cement, rapid setting (RS) cement and Schlumberger optimized particle size distribution (OPSD) technology cement. The bulk shrinkage volume varies from 0.01% to 2.4% depending on cement type and formation permeability (1 mD to 0.1 μD). Finally, the proposed methodology facilitates the simulation of water migration/absorption and shrinkage behaviour of well cement in different formations.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.petrol.2018.05.065},

  journal      = {Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering},

  number       = C,

  volume       = 169,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2018},

  month        = {10}

}

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