An AP review of federal accident and incident reports on offshore wells shows that the cementing process has been implicated at least 34 times since 1978. Many of the reports, available from the U.S.

Mon, 24 May 2010 10:29:42 GMT — (AP) -- The tricky process of sealing an offshore oil well with cement " suspected as a major contributor to the Gulf of Mexico disaster" has failed dozens of times in ...

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While the chain of failures on Deepwater Horizon is under investigation, rig owner Transocean has singled out cement work as one likely fundamental cause of the blowout. Even before Transocean pointed ...

The tricky process of sealing an offshore oil well with cement — suspected as a major contributor to the Gulf of Mexico disaster — has failed dozens of times in the past, according to an Associated ...

BP on Thursday delivered what should be a knock-out punch to its damaged Macondo well, filling it with cement and all but guaranteeing oil will never leak from it again. The final step of the ...

Successful cement jobs, providing good zonal isolation and adequate casing and wellhead support, become difficult goals to achieve at water depths grea ter than 2,000 m. Operators must overcome ...

Editor's note: Jim Rike is a well-known Louisiana-based petroleum engineer and a consultant to some of the world's largest energy companies. He is the founder and owner of Rike Service Inc. and has ...

Used for a number of different reasons, cementing protects and seals the wellbore. Most commonly, cementing is used to permanently shut off water penetration into the well. Part of the completion ...

The tricky process of sealing an offshore oil well with cement - suspected as a major contributor to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster - has failed dozens of times in the past, according to an ...