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Casing and Its Types

Casing is installed in oil and gas wells to maintain borehole stability, prevent contamination, and isolate formations. There are five main types of casing: conductor, surface, intermediate, production, and liner casing. Conductor casing isolates unconsolidated formations and protects against shallow gas. Surface casing provides blowout protection and isolates water. Intermediate casing isolates zones and transitions between normal and abnormal pressures. Production casing isolates production zones and contains formation pressures. Liners are hung inside another casing string to reduce costs and improve hydraulic performance when drilling deeper.

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Casing and Its Types

Casing is installed in oil and gas wells to maintain borehole stability, prevent contamination, and isolate formations. There are five main types of casing: conductor, surface, intermediate, production, and liner casing. Conductor casing isolates unconsolidated formations and protects against shallow gas. Surface casing provides blowout protection and isolates water. Intermediate casing isolates zones and transitions between normal and abnormal pressures. Production casing isolates production zones and contains formation pressures. Liners are hung inside another casing string to reduce costs and improve hydraulic performance when drilling deeper.

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CASING AND ITS TYPES

By
Muhammad Burhan Memon
Casing

 Casing is the major structural component of a well. Casing is needed to:

• Maintain borehole stability

• Prevent contamination of water sands

• Isolate water from producing formations

• Control well pressures during drilling, production, and workover operations


Casing provides locations for the installation of:

• Blowout preventers

• Wellhead equipment

• Production tubing

• The cost of casing is a major part of the overall well cost, so selection of

casing size, grade, connectors, and setting depth is a primary engineering

and economic consideration.


There are Five basic types of casing strings:
• Conductor Casing
• Surface Casing
• Intermediate Casing
• Production Casing
• Liner
Conductor casing
• Conductor casing is the first string set below the structural casing (i.e.,
drive pipe or marine conductor run to protect loose near-surface
formations and to enable circulation of drilling fluid).
• The conductor isolates unconsolidated formations and water sands and
protects against shallow gas.
• This is usually the string onto which the casing head is installed.
• A diverter or a blowout prevention (BOP) stack may be installed onto
this string.
• When cemented, this string is typically cemented to the surface or to the
mudline in offshore wells.
Surface casing
• Surface casing is set to provide blowout protection, isolate water sands,
and prevent lost circulation.
• It also often provides adequate shoe strength to drill into high-pressure
transition zones.
• In deviated wells, the surface casing may cover the build section to
prevent keyseating of the formation during deeper drilling.
Intermediate casing
Intermediate casing is set to isolate:
• Unstable hole sections
• Lost-circulation zones
• Low-pressure zones
• Production zones
• It is often set in the transition zone from normal to abnormal pressure.
• The casing cement top must isolate any hydrocarbon zones.
• Some wells require multiple intermediate strings.
• Some intermediate strings may also be production strings if a liner is
run beneath them.
Production casing
Production casing is used to isolate production zones and contain
formation pressures in the event of a tubing leak. It may also be
exposed to:
• Injection pressures from fracture jobs
• Downcasing, gas lift
• The injection of inhibitor oil
• A good primary cement job is very critical for this string.
Liner

Liner is a casing string that does not extend back to the wellhead, but is
hung from another casing string. Liners are used instead of full casing
strings to:
• Reduce cost

• Improve hydraulic performance when drilling deeper

• Allow the use of larger tubing above the liner top

• Not represent a tension limitation for a rig

• Liners can be either an intermediate or a production string. Liners are


typically cemented over their entire length.

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