Applied Well Cementing Engineering delivers the latest technologies, case studies, and procedures to identify the challenges, understand the framework, and implement the solutions for today’s cementing and petroleum engineers. Covering the basics and advances, this contributed reference gives the complete design, flow and job execution in a structured process. Authors, collectively, bring together knowledge from over 250 years of experience in cementing and condense their knowledge into this book. Real-life successful and unsuccessful case studies are included to explain lessons learned about the technologies used today. Other topics include job simulation, displacement efficiency, and hydraulics. A practical guide for cementing engineer, Applied Well Cementing Engineering, gives a critical reference for better job execution.

Gefei Liu is the founder and president of Pegasus Vertex, Inc., a drilling software company in Houston, Texas. He received his BS degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1987 and an MS degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991. Gefei has published more than 20 technical articles on various drilling engineering topics and one book published by Elsevier titled Applied Drilling Circulation Systems with Prof. Boyun Guo. Mr. Liu was nominated for the SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) Drilling Engineering Award in 2012. In May 2018, Gefei, together with his colleague Dr. Hu Dai, was awarded the Meritorious Awards for Engineering Innovation by Hart’s Energy for developing the CEMPRO+ computer model.