Full-Life-Cycle Analysis of Cement Sheath Integrity

Jie Hu, Linlin Wang, Jili Feng, Jiyun Shen and Manchao He

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2019, vol. 2019, 1-11

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This paper addresses evaluating the evolution of stress inside the casing-cement sheath-formation system during the cement injection, setting, completion, and production stages of hydrocarbon recovery. This full-life-cycle analysis of cement sheath integrity gives rise to assessment of potential failure mode (i.e., tensile mode, shear mode, and microannulus) in different stages, and the prevention measures can be proposed accordingly. Considering the loading history, two regimes should be distinguished. Before the accomplishment of cementation, as the cement slurry can merely withstand its hydraulic pressure, the in situ stress and the wellbore pressure are withstood by the rock and the casing, respectively. Once the cementation process is completed, the stress increment (e.g., hydraulic fracturing pressure) is withstood by the casing-cement sheath-formation system. The autogenous shrinkage of cement adversely affects the resistance of the system to all types of failure, whereas a moderate swelling of cement is favorable to the cement sheath integrity. In addition, the cement sheath integrity is strongly influenced by the depth: the failure is encountered more easily at the shallow layer. Both the hydraulic fracturing pressure in the completion stage and the increase in casing temperature in the production stage may lead to tensile circumferential stress, and the hydraulic fracturing is the most critical stage for the integrity of cement sheath.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1155/2019/8279435

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