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Dr Milap Goud
Dr Milap GoudFounder and Instructor
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  • Certificate of completion

Why enroll

After the completion of the course, field engineer will better equip himself/herself with laboratory aspects and lab staff, will be more equipped to address and offer technical solutions to problems of field associated with cementing operations

As an added benefit participants will also learn a conceptual difference between oil well and construction cement

Is this course for you?

You should take this if

  • You work in Oil & Gas Upstream
  • You're a Petroleum Technology professional
  • You have 3+ years of hands-on experience in this field
  • You prefer live, instructor-led training with Q&A

You should skip if

  • You're new to this field with no prior experience
  • You need a different specialisation outside Petroleum Technology
  • You need fully self-paced, on-demand content

Course details

The objective of the course is to familiarize and acquaint the participants with field as well as lab related aspects along with explaining the grassroot chemistry behind the cement slurry design to help them learn all the aspects of oil well cementing

As an added benefit participants will also learn a conceptual difference between oil well and construction cement

Duration of the course- 23 hours

After completion of the course, test will be conducted by mentor, and certificate award issued, upon securing 80% marks in the test.

Cement Slurry Design: Content of the course 

  • ·       Basic Chemistry of oil well cement

  • ·       Primary cementing

  • ·       Preparing the well for cement slurry pumping

  • ·       Slurry design

  • ·       Spacer design

  • ·       Displacement of slurry

  • ·       Cementing additives

  • ·       Elementary calculations

  • ·       Deep water cementing

  • ·       HTHP cementing

  • ·       QA QC of cement and chemicals

  • ·       Cement slurry to rock matrix relationship

  • ·       Annular gas migration and other common problems related tp cementing

  • ·       Lab testing of cement slurry

  • ·       Cementing in loss circulation

  • ·       Cement blending

  • ·       Well abandonment

  • ·       Construction and oil well cement comparison

Course suitable for

Key topics covered

CEMENT SLURRY DESIGN

  •  Basic Chemistry of oil well cement

  • ·       Primary cementing

  • ·       Preparing the well for cement slurry pumping

  • ·       Slurry design

  • ·       Spacer design

  • ·       Displacement of slurry

  • ·       Cementing additives

  • ·       Elementary calculations

  • ·       Deep water cementing

  • ·       HTHP cementing

  • ·       QA QC of cement and chemicals

  • ·       Cement slurry to rock matrix relationship

  • ·       Annular gas migration and other common problems related tp cementing

  • ·       Lab testing of cement slurry

  • ·       Cementing in loss circulation

  • ·       Cement blending

  • ·       Well abandonment

  • ·       Construction and oil well cement comparison

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What learners say about this course

Surekha Prabhu
Surekha Prabhu Consultant
May 3, 2026

The logic behind the worked examples held up when I sanity-checked them against field cases. mostly advanced material, but the shale inhibition chapter stuck—seeing KCl vs glycol tradeoffs tied to torque spikes during the lab mud check. The lost-circulation module sizing LCM after a sudden RPS drop in a prod interval mirrored night calls I've seen, and the calc turned straight into a PR. Wasn't sold on the brief weighting-agent segment; wished there was more on barite sag in deviated holes, but it's already changing how our on-call notes get updated.

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Eslam Ahmed saeed
May 3, 2026

Module 4 dragged a bit, and the lab assumes you’ve already got a calibrated viscometer and marsh funnel handy, which wasn’t the case for me. That aside, the course spends real time on the why behind mud behavior instead of just recipes. The section on rheology stuck: walking through PV/YP from the 600/300 readings, then tying it to ECD changes at different RPS made it click. I’ve seen those numbers in reports but hadn’t connected them to hole cleaning tradeoffs in prod wells. The barite sag example in the drilling fluids chapter was another good moment, especially how it shows up in obs before it’s obvious downhole. It’s advanced, but it doesn’t talk past you. definitely helped clear up a couple misunderstandings I’ve been carrying since school.

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Akshay Tupe
May 3, 2026

HPHT rheology module with the ECD spreadsheet stuck; wasn't sold on water-based muds coverage, but it's useful for prod handoffs.

Abdullah Khairy
Abdullah Khairy
May 3, 2026

came in to pressure-test our current fluids setup against how we’re actually running prod wells, not for a refresher. The shale inhibition section comparing KCl vs PHPA, plus the hands-on viscometer math for PV/YP, stuck and maps cleanly to day-to-day obs. Mostly hits the mark, though I wasn’t sold on the quick skim of MPD interactions with mud weight and ECD; could’ve used another example. I’ve been missing a single reference point like this for the last couple years.

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Questions and Answers

A: That’s the most common mistake — assuming the lab followed API RP 10B units just because the header looks familiar. The difference matters because 18 Pa is roughly 37 lbf/100 ft², which doubles your low-shear stress and pushes ECD right where this well has already flirted with losses. In a brownfield with a tightening fracture gradient trend, signing off without resolving the unit is a silent risk transfer to the rig.

A: That’s the most common mistake — chasing pressure with rate changes. The difference matters because hydration kinetics are temperature-driven, not time-on-pump driven. Extending the preflush buys thermal margin without re-engineering the slurry mid-job, which would stack chemical uncertainty on top of a trend that’s already pointing the wrong way.

A: That’s the most common mistake — treating the API limit as a magic number instead of a mechanism control. The difference matters because free fluid only becomes a failure driver when gravity segregation has time and orientation to act. In deviated or horizontal sections with long static periods, 1.6% is a different animal than in a short vertical string.

A: That’s the most common mistake — assuming sack yield magically closes the mass balance. The difference matters because yield is volumetric, not gravimetric. Once you actually add 5 gallons at 8.33 ppg, the blended density drops, and in a narrow pore-fracture window that half-ppg swing shows up as either losses or poor mud removal.