Cementing Services

WELL INTEGRITY (CEMENTING)

Cementing operations are critical for well’s life as they constitute the foundations of any gas or oil well. Well Integrity is compromised unless efficient cementing operations are carried out in every casing job. Cementing is the basis for efficient well performance.

TAQA provides our customers with a wide range of cementing solutions to achieve wellbore integrity throughout the well’s lifecycle. It offers a wide variety of slurry systems for different cementing applications. We apply our broad experience to deliver innovative cementing technologies to help our customers overcome the wellbore challenges and maintain the well integrity by designing and delivering a dependable barrier. As one of the leading suppliers of oilfield cementing services in Saudi Arabia, TAQA provides fit-for-purpose and sophisticated primary cementing solutions for our client’s unique well requirements.

Primary cementing constructs the foundation of TAQA’s pressure-pumping business. We have cemented wells with depths deeper than 22,000 ft, cement slurry volumes of more than 1,400 bbls, and circulating temperatures greater than 350 DegF, from light to heavy density slurries, providing solutions for challenging wellbore environments from shallow gas, extended reach wells, to HP/HT critical wells.

TAQA develops customized cementing solutions to each well’s unique bottom hole pressure, temperature, and operator requirements. TAQA has a wide range of cementing solutions that can be offered to help in achieving the objective of the application including:

REMEDIAL CEMENTING

TAQA’s cementing services provide progressive, customizable solutions for your remedial applications. We continuously develop advanced cementing technologies to offer new solutions that improve and strengthen wellbore integrity, eliminate gas migration issues, and enhance production through our Product Development Centre, located at TAQA Well Services Base in Dammam. TAQA’s cementing is led by an industry-leading team of operational and technical specialists, supported by field staff with extensive experience working around the globe. As a result, we have a solution for any situation, from ultrafine products to highly thixotropic cavern filling slurries. Our ambition is to exceed our customer expectations, improve existing well productivity, and eliminate future wellbore issues as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible.

Design Improvements

TAQA is constantly evolving its processes to help improve well integrity and achieve effective long-term zonal isolation during the different phases of the well, using advanced software to simulate downhole wellbore conditions precisely. In addition, understanding the criticality of cement design, TAQA utilizes stress modeling software in the design phase to evaluate the impact of the induced stresses on cement sheath during the different stages of the well providing an adequate slurry system to achieve long-term zonal isolation.

Cementing Laboratory

Constructed in 2019, TAQA’s cementing lab is fully furnished with the highest equipment standard to enhance further the extent of technical support offered across our oil field operations. TAQA’s advanced Cementing and Stimulation Laboratories use industry-leading technologies exclusively. The central operation Lab is in the Well Services Base in Dammam, where our technical team unites a broad range of expertise. These laboratories are used for testing a variety of fluids associated with Cementing and Stimulation treatments, obtaining optimal results to generate improved solutions with a higher success ratio. In addition, the laboratories consistently run quality control tests on materials used in the field to ensure that they meet TAQA’s specifications.

Cementing Equipment

TAQA retains a comprehensive fleet of the most advanced cementing equipment that can perform cement jobs under a broad range of well conditions, including varying cement slurries densities, volumes, pressures, and flowrates.

Cementing Job Design Software

TAQA uses the most advanced cementing software for designing cement jobs. It helps the engineers to make informed decisions regarding the placement and minimizes risk throughout the well’s life. Cementing hydraulic model helps to simulate the downhole wellbore conditions for different types of applications, it provides accurate circulating temperatures, expected job pressure, and displacement efficiency. It facilitates the calculation and optimizes centralizer placement, pump rates, and spacer properties to achieve effective mud removal and better cement coverage. The cementing models also predict contamination during cement placement for both casing and cement plugs applications and helps mitigating it, leading to higher success rate. Stress modeling is another software that our engineers use to assess the impact of the stresses due to the temperature and pressure changes during the life of the well.