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 ...

Matador Operating Corp. combated lost-circulation problems in Monument field, Hobbs, NM, by combining tubing release procedures with a specialized cement-plug setting technique. Key to the new ...

One focus of the Senate hearing into the Deepwater Horizon disaster was why the final step in the cementing process—putting a cement plug in the well more than a mile below the sea surface—wasn't ...

BP says they were successful in placing a cement plug on the leaking Gulf oil well, the final step of their static kill procedure. Their next effort will be the ...

Without those plugs, there is little to prevent powerful leaks from pushing to the surface, so these wells could be an even greater environmental threat than wells that have been sealed and classified ...

Crews started pumping cement Friday deep under the seafloor to permanently plug BP's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico. A BP spokesman said there no longer was a need to use mud in tandem with the ...

After removing two cores from this Porites lobata coral colony near Wolf Island in the Galápagos, the University of Arizona-led team of researchers plugged the drill holes. The cement plugs help the ...