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All New Cement Constant Speed Blender

All New Cement Constant Speed Blender

The Constant Speed Blender is designed to prepare a cement slurry by mixing it at constant speeds according to API guidelines. The blender begins by m...

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OLR Cement Testing Part 2

OnLine Rheometer

Although the OnLine Rheometer (OLR) has been utilized multiple times to measure the rheological properties of drilling fluids, it has yet to be tested...

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OLR Cement Testing

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OFITE has long been an industry leader in drilling fluids rheology. Now we will expand the toolkit for understanding how fluids behave in the well bor...

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Upgraded Atmospheric Consistometer

Upgraded Atmospheric Consistometer

The OFITE Model 60 Atmospheric Consistometer has been used in cement labs for years to condition cement slurries prior to further testing. Now, we are...

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Model 4005 Automated UCA/SGSM

Model 4005 Automated UCA/SGSM

The Ultrasonic Cement Analyzer (UCA) uses the change in velocity of an acoustic signal to determine the compressive strength of a well cement over tim...

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Circular Cement Expansion Mold

Circular Cement Expansion Mold

In a typical well cementing operation, a cement slurry is pumped into the annulus between the well casing and the bore hole. As the cement slurry hydr...

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Atmospheric Consistometer

Atmospheric Consistometer

The Atmospheric Consistometer is one of the staples of the cement lab. Every cement lab needs at least one for a critical step in preparing cement slu...

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Destructive Compressive Strength Testing

Destructive Compressive Strength Testing

Oil well cement must be strong enough to support the casing and to provide adequate zonal isolation. Before using a cement system in a well, developer...

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Cement Gel Strength

Cement Gel Strength

Gel strength is a property of cement slurries that describes the attractive forces that exist between particles suspended within the mixture. Gel stre...

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Volumetric Cement Expansion

Volumetric Cement Expansion

When wet cement begins to set, the crystals that form the set cement matrix take up less volume than the initial reactants that make up the base cemen...

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Atmospheric Conditioning of Cement

Atmospheric Conditioning of Cement

Once dry cement is mixed with water, a complex chemical reaction begins. The chemical reactions have a tremendous effect on the physical performance p...

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Free Lunch and Learn Seminar: Mechanical Properties

Free Lunch and Learn Seminar: Mechanical Properties

***UPDATE: The September 21 lunch and learn is full. We will be scheduling more in the near future. If you are interested, let us know and we will kee...

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Cement Mechanical Properties

Cement Mechanical Properties

The mechanical properties of a material describe how that material behaves when subjected to an applied force. When placed in an oil well, cement is s...

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Mitigating Gas Migration by Measuring Static Gel Strength of Well Cement

Mitigating Gas Migration by Measuring Static Gel Strength of Well Cement

Cement slurries that are placed in gas bearing formations as part of the well completion process are at risk of gas migration under the right conditio...

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Pressurized Consistometers Provide Valuable Information About Cement Thickening Time

Pressurized Consistometers Provide Valuable Information About Cement Thickening Time

For oilfield service companies trying to cement a well, the thickening time of the cement slurry is the critical slurry property to control. A typical...

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Testing Compressive Strength with the Ultrasonic Cement Analyzer

Testing Compressive Strength with the Ultrasonic Cement Analyzer

Cement in an oil well needs to be able to resist the forces found in the formation in order to protect the steel casing around which it is placed. The...

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Preparing Cement with a Constant Speed Mixer

Preparing Cement with a Constant Speed Mixer

Cement slurries used in the oil field are dynamic fluids with complex chemistries. Laboratories tasked with the development of slurries used for cemen...

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Conditioning Cement in the Laboratory

Conditioning Cement in the Laboratory

To define the physical properties of a cement slurry, laboratory personnel need to run a complete suite of performance tests. To produce consistent te...

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Measuring Mechanical Properties Made Easy

Measuring Mechanical Properties Made Easy

Advanced oil well cement testing goes beyond compressive strength. The elastic properties (Young’s Modulus, Poisson’s Ratio, and Tensile Strength) als...

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Short on Capital Budget?

Short on Capital Budget?

Times are tough in the oil patch. Staffing is reduced, budgets are cut, and approval processes are tightened. It is harder than ever to keep your lab ...

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