Paper: Joege Italo Bahamon Pedrosa, Mark Briney, Heath Pipes and David McKenzie Halliburton Energy Services

The cementing design process has been improved by utilizing up-to-date technology to predict actual down-hole conditions, allowing both the service company and the operator to manage fluid positions, critical circulating pressures and surface parameters while cementing under stringent conditions. This paper will explain how design data and Real Time Simulation can be utilized in making detailed predictions of many well parameters and make real-time adjustments during the operation to alter the outcome of the job. These tools can allow the operator and service provider to more accurately predict cement tops, change casing programs, control flow-back rates and pressures, monitor equivalent circulating density (ECD) on specific zones, or just prepare a better design for the next well in the field.