Sentence examples for cement failure from inspiring English sources

Cement failure is a frequent cause of deepwater oil well blowouts.

Lou Colasuonno, a Transocean spokesman, said that the report identified the cement failure as the primary cause of the accident and defended the actions of Transocean crew members.

The report concludes that this error is unlikely to have been key to the cement failure, but it is a pretty striking mistake and others will likely differ on its significance.

Although Mr. Bartlit did not specifically identify the cement failure as the sole or even primary cause of the blowout, he made clear in his letter that if the cement had done its job and kept the highly pressurized oil and gas out of the well bore, there would have been no accident.

The excessive fluid pressure provided by the leakage is the driving force for the cement failure.

However, this approach may results in underestimating the cement failure probability.

Cement failures were implicated in 18 of those cases.

The oil industry had developed other common tests to ensure against cement failures, he said.

We developed a workflow to utilize three-dimensional numerical analysis to simulate propagation of cement failures due to fluid leakage at the casing shoe.

Methane and other hydrocarbons can also migrate along improperly plugged wells, through an inadequately sealed annulus, or between geological zones as a result of cement failures in the wellbore (Vidic et al. 2013).

Cement failures in onshore and offshore wells, reported to occur in 2 50% of all wells, provide pathways for gas migration to occur in the wellbore (Bourgoyne et al. 2000; Brufatto et al. 2003; Watson and Bachu 2009).