Cementing & Casing Design for Oil & Gas Wells
Casing and cement are what turn an open hole into a well that can be trusted for decades — casing provides the structural strength to withstand downhole loads, and cement locks it in place while sealing off zones that must never communicate. Get either wrong and the well carries that weakness for its entire life. Burraq Consulting’s course trains engineers to design and execute both with real confidence.
What Is Casing Design & Cementing?
Casing design is the engineering process of selecting and sizing casing strings to withstand the loads a well will experience throughout its life — burst, collapse, and tension — across each section from conductor to production casing. Cementing is the operation that follows, placing cement in the annulus between casing and formation to provide structural support and, critically, zonal isolation that prevents fluid migration between formations.
Who Should Attend
- Drilling engineers responsible for casing design and cementing program planning
- Well integrity engineers who need to assess cementing quality and long-term isolation
- Field supervisors overseeing cementing operations at the wellsite
Prerequisites
Basic drilling engineering knowledge is recommended.
What the Course Covers
- Casing design fundamentals — burst, collapse, and tension load calculations across a well's life
- Casing string types and their function — conductor, surface, intermediate, and production casing
- Cement slurry design and additives for different well conditions, including temperature and formation challenges
- Primary cementing operations and equipment — centralizers, float equipment, and cementing plugs
- Zonal isolation verification methods, including cement bond logs and pressure testing
- Remedial and squeeze cementing basics for addressing isolation failures after the fact
- Common cementing failures and their downstream impact on well integrity
Course at a Glance
Why Train with Burraq Consulting
Burraq Consulting’s instructors bring direct casing design and cementing operations experience from wells across the region, and this course reflects that — the slurry design trade-offs, the centralizer placement decisions that actually determine bond quality, and the failure patterns that show up years later in a well integrity review.
Certification and Next Steps
This course builds practical casing design and cementing competency. It pairs naturally with Burraq Consulting’s Fundamentals of Drilling Engineering course and connects directly to well integrity work covered in Burraq Consulting’s Risk-Based Inspection course.
Frequently Asked Questions
Primary cementing is the initial cement job performed as part of running casing. Remedial cementing — including squeeze cementing — is performed afterward to fix isolation problems identified through logging or pressure testing.
The course covers slurry design principles and additive selection at a working engineering level rather than laboratory testing procedures, giving participants the knowledge to specify and evaluate slurry designs.
Casing design directly supports well control by providing the structural barriers — casing strings and their cement sheaths — that work alongside the BOP stack as part of a well’s overall barrier system.
Yes. Well integrity engineers rely heavily on understanding original casing and cementing design when assessing a well’s current condition, making this course valuable well beyond the initial drilling phase.
Design casing and cement programs that hold up for the life of the well.
or contact us to arrange an in-house program for your drilling team.