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Casing Types Definitions

This document defines various casing types used in oil and gas drilling, including conductor casing for offshore drilling, conductor and surface casing strings for onshore drilling to seal formations and protect against shallow gas, intermediate casing in transition zones between pressures, production casing to separate productive zones, and liners as intermediate strings cemented at the top to permit deeper drilling or zone separation.

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Casing Types Definitions

This document defines various casing types used in oil and gas drilling, including conductor casing for offshore drilling, conductor and surface casing strings for onshore drilling to seal formations and protect against shallow gas, intermediate casing in transition zones between pressures, production casing to separate productive zones, and liners as intermediate strings cemented at the top to permit deeper drilling or zone separation.

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Casing types definitions

This article presents the definition of the various casing types: conductor, surface casing, intermediate casing, production casing and liner.
Marine Conductor (Offshore)
This is for offshore drilling operations from jack-up rigs. It consists of a pipe driven, jetted, or cemented in a pre-drilled hole to provide structural
strength, to cover very soft formations below the seabed, to serve as a circulation system for the drilling fluids, and to guide the drilling and casing
strings into the hole.
Conductor Casing String (Onshore)
The conductor casing string is used to cover unconsolidated surface formations, to seal off shallow water sands, and to provide protection against
shallow gas flows. The string is cemented to surface and is the first casing on which one or more BOP could be installed.
Surface Casing String
The surface casing string is used to provide blow-out protection, to seal off water/hydrocarbon formations, and to prevent loss of circulation. This string
is normally cemented to surface or seabed.
Intermediate Casing String
The intermediate casing string is usually set in the transition zone of abnormal pressured formations and used to protect weak formations, to case off
circulation losses, hole sloughing, caving, reservoir formations, and to provide blow-out protection. Cement fill to shut off hydrocarbon zones and
flowing salt sections.
Production Casing String
The production casing string is used to separate the productive zones from other reservoir formations or for testing purposes.
Liners
Liner, other than production liners, are used as an intermediate casing string to permit deeper drilling, to separate the productive zones from other zones,
or for testing purposes. A liner is always cemented to its top.

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