1. Lafarge Oil & Gas Global Well Cement Standards Russian GOST by Larisa Markina, Bill Carruthers, Gregory Bernstein API Meeting June 2012
CEMENT

2. API
GOST
American Petroleum Institute (API) is an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accredited standards organization. API partners with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in development of well cement standards and other matters
GOST standards are administered by the Euro-Asian Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification (EASC). The national standards of Russia are GOST R managed by The Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology (Rosstandard)
Used worldwide
GOST was adopted by the relevant ministries and state agencies in Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia and Uzbekistan
Main standard for well cements
ANSI/API 10A (ISO 10426)
Main standard for well cements:
GOST
Test methods for I-G and I-H
GOST

3. GOST history
Well cements in Russia were first produced in the 1920s (Novorossijsk Cement Plants). Until 1940s well cements met specific customer needs (set time, strength etc) without any common standard
The first common standard for well cement was drafted and approved in GOST lasted without significant changes until 1963 and:
Specified 2 neat well cements for low and high temperature wells
Based on the properties of Novorossijsk cement (standard at that time)
Well cement standards were developed jointly by the cement industry and the oil-gas industry in the relevant academic, technical and standard institutes
By the s the industry realized that just 2 neat cements did not provide sufficient flexibility to deal with the varied well conditions. At this time GOST deviated from API methodology by introducing composite cements
GOST introduced cements with additives – up to 15% of the “active” additives and 10% “inert” additive
In the 1970s industry advanced further and in addition to neat and blended cements introduced lightweight, heavy weight and other special cements. Most of these cements were added to the 1996 standard edition
The last modification is GOST introduced on October 1, 1998 as a state standard of the Russian Federation by Decision of Gosstroy of Russia dated April 10, 1998 № 18-31

4. Only neat cements allowed (clinker and gypsum)
GOST Class 1G and 1H cements are close to API10A Class G and H. However, GOST Class 2 and Class 3 cements allow additives. GOST specifies lightweight and heavyweight cement systems - such cements are not specified by API
ANSI/API 10A
GOST
Only neat cements allowed (clinker and gypsum)
Allows a wide range of cements – neat, blended, lightweight and other
5 classes of neat cement with no additives of any kind (A, B, C, G, H).
The set-modifying agents can be interground or blended during manufacture of Class D cement
Class I with no additives
Class IG no additives. Tests at water to cement ratio
Class IH no additives. Tests at water to cement ratio
Class II cement with mineral additives
Class III with the additives regulating cement slurry density
Class IIIA is the lightweight cement (allows weight control additives)
Class IIIB is the heavyweight cement

5. GOST 1581-96 Classification of standard well cements
Section 4. Classification
4.1 As to material composition the cements are subdivided into types as follows:
I — well Portland cement without additives;
I-G — well Portland cement without additives with normalized requirements with water/cement ratio equal to 0.44 [1];
I-H — well Portland cement without additives with normalized requirements with water/cement ratio equal to 0.38 [1];
II — well Portland cement with mineral additives;
III — well Portland cement with special additives, regulating cement mortar density.
4.2 As to cement mortar density the cements type III are subdivided as follows:
-lightened (Об);
-weighted (Ут).
4.3 As to application temperature the cements types I, II and III are subdivided into cements, intended for:
- low and normal temperatures (15—50) °С;
- moderate temperatures (51—100) °С;
- higher temperatures (101—150) °С.
4.4 As to sulfate resistance the cements are subdivided into:
а) types I, II, III
- normal (there are no requirements for sulfate resistance);
- sulfate resistant (СС);
b) types I-G and I-H
- high sulfate resistance (СС-1);
- moderate sulfate resistance (СС-2).

6. GOST 1581-96 Additive Requirements

7. GOST 1581-96 Physical Characteristics

8. Table 4
GOST Chemical and Physical Characteristics of Class 1G and 1H (two GOST cement types directly equivalent to API Class G and Class H)
Index description
Value for cement types I-G and I-H
no less than
no more than
Compressive strength, MPa, after 8 hours of hardening at temperature:
38° С
2.1 -
60° С
10.3
Bleeding, ml
3.5
Cement mortar consistency after 15 —30 min of test mode, Вс 30
Time of thickening to consistency 100 Вс, min 90
120
Index description
Value for cement type I II
III
I-G and I-H
Loss of ignition, no more than
5.0 -
3.0
Mass concentration of insoluble residue, no more than
5.00
0.75
Mass concentration of sulphur oxide(VI) SO3
no less than
1.5 —
no more than
3.5
Mass concentration of chlorine- ion С1-, no more than
0,10
Mass concentration of alkaline oxides’ sum in conversion to Na2O, no more than

9. GOST 1581-96 Requirements for materials - clinker
Table 4
GOST Requirements for materials - clinker

10. Value of cement mortar density for cement type III, g/cm3
Table 3
Table 4
GOST Requirements for materials – gypsum and additives
Table 3
Value of cement mortar density for cement type III, g/cm3
lightened
weighted
designation of
density
average density
±0.04
064
1.40
Ут0
2.00
065
1.50
Ут1
2.10
066
1.60
Ут2
2.20
УтЗ
2.30

11. GOST 26798.2-96 1G and 1H Well cements test methods

12. GOST 26798.2-96 1G and 1H Well cements test methods

13. GOST 26798.2-96 Consistometer schedule (compares with API schedule 5)

14. Summary
Two methodologies exist in standardization of the well cements:
Neat cement approach which does not allow any additives (API)
Combination of neat and blended cement standards (GOST)
The neat cement (API) methodology restricts innovation and flexibility to meet various customer needs at a cement plant since it allows no additives – while technologies of blending, inter-grinding and selection of advanced ingredients to control properties of the clinker-cement systems represent perhaps the core modern expertise of Lafarge
On the other hand, a standard with too much ambiguity in cement chemical composition and properties would cause challenges to the well service companies in slurry designs
We recommend for the future API approach to combine the advantages of both methodologies. For example a standard may – as GOST – allow considerable range of the blended cement products, as long as the quality targets are well defined. GOST may consider extending the neat cements range as API

15. Lafarge Technical Director – Lafarge Oil & Gas
Authors:
Larisa Markina
Senior Project Manager – Lafarge Oil & Gas –Russia
Tel: +7(495) Ext. 6584
Bill Carruthers
Lafarge Technical Director – Lafarge Oil & Gas
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Gregory Bernstein
Business Development Director – Lafarge Oil & Gas
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