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Ultra Lightweight Cementing Solutions

Overview and Case Studies
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Depleted Reservoirs & Mature Fields Challenges

Low Fracture gradient / High Permeability
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ECD Management during drilling phase High risk of Lost Circulation during cementing operations Achieve required TOC or to surface Formation damage by cement losses production impairment

Depleted Reservoirs & Mature Fields Challenges

Mud Removal Production Quality Cement
Must provide good, long term zonal isolation to maximize production
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Environmental compliance
Discharge on returns OH excess requirements
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Agenda
System Application Ranges
Density Selection - LiteCRETE Applications
Ultra LiteCRETE
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Success stories
Ultra LiteCRETE Coal-bed methane
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System Application Ranges

High Density Particle
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Sand Light Particle Light Particle Flexible Additive

23 lb/gal

7.5 lb/gal

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LiteCRETE Density Selection

Density Range: 7.5 13 ppg
Ranges correspond to the LiteCRETE portfolio of products

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7. 5
6

8. 0

8. 7
LiteCRE TE

10. 5

12. 0

13. 0

Ultra SRPC LiteCRETE

LiteCRETE HP

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Density Range: 7.5 8.7 ppg
The ultra lightweight production quality cementing system

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7.5

8.0

8.7

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Features & Applications Extremely fractured or depleted formations Production liners/casing Cement to surface Production quality Density: 7.5 8.7 ppg Temperature: 80 450F
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Critical Water Zones

Traditionally 2 stages
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Redesigned casing program to eliminate stage tool Saved stage tool running time and associated risks No need for full production string 9 SRPC Production liner

Fibered LiteCRETE
CemNET Synergy with LiteCRETE systems
Rapid plugging of voids Not reliant on high rheology Related to PSD
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A 1-mm slot plate plugged by fibered HPLW cement slurry (silica fiber concentration = 2.1 lbm/bbl), photgraphed from the bottom of the cell.

Value of fiber usage directly related to the high-solids content of LiteCRETE systems

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Case Studies

Cement to surface
UAE
Cementing a 7in TieBack Liner to surface
Inside perforated 9 5/8in casing Well used as an injector

Objective:
Shut off perforations and cement tie-back liner to surface Replace scab liner Recomplete the well as a single string dual injector
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Formations
UER (Um Raduma) Simsima

Performance indicator
Get TOC above uppermost perforations inside 7in x 9 5/8in annulus

Highly fractured formations 12 SRPC Communication

Cement to surface
UAE Schedule
Spacer: 24m3 ONELOCK* LEAD: 46m Ultra LiteCRETE at 1.02 SG
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LiteCRETE

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Results
Achieved good returns after ZONELOCK and Ultra LiteCRETE 3.2m3 of slurry returned to service after treatment A positive pressure test was achieved on

TAIL:14.3m3 Class G Cement at 1.9 SG

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Complete Losses
Offshore Mexico
Used with Mexico Marine (Offshore Cantarell)
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Fractured or vugular Paleocen, Cretacic and Jurassic age carbonates One of the most expensive problems while drilling the production zone
PARTIAL TO TOTAL LOST CIRCULATION

Permeability up to 5 Darcies Frac gradient of 0.26 psi/ft

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Complete Losses
Offshore Mexico
During drilling 5 7/8 O.H. was drilled with NO RETURNS
total of 8190m3 of 0.9 s.g. OBM were lost from 2208 m to 2410m.

CS = 1650 psi @ 14 hrs Displacement performed with 0.9 SG OBM

During all the operation no returns were observed
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Very good results previously obtained with LiteCRETE at 1.1 SG

decided to decrease 15 SRPC further down the density

Evaluation:
The pay interval that will be exploited is from 2655 to 2705m CBT/USIT showed very

0.98 SG LiteCRETE

Offshore
UAE
Lost circulation common across Simsima and Umm El Radhuma formations Problems
Stage tool failure Corrosion Low TOC

Successful cementing made possible with this system Based on results additional work now planned

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Very challenging to cement

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Utilized Ultra

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Kuwait Leader in Ultra LiteCRETE jobs
30 jobs at 0.9 SG YTD

Results
Saved $40k per well, now a standard system Eliminated the need for costly stage tools and wasted rig time between stages, cement to surface in one go! No need for multiple top out jobs to bring cement to surface No costly workover operations
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Loss circulation zones across Damman, 1st Eocene and Maestrichian formations Primary Objective
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Coal-Bed Methane Cementing

LiteCRETE CBM Production Quality Cement to surface even if the well wont support a column of water! LiteCRETE

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CemNET: Fibrous material forms a mat at the fracture opening

Summary
System Application Ranges
Density Selection - LiteCRETE Applications
Ultra LiteCRETE
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Success stories
Ultra LiteCRETE Coal-bed methane
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Questions and Feedback

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What do you think..?

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