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    Casing and Liner Pressure Testing

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    Casing and liners must be pressure tested to the lowest of several design limits to check for integrity issues. Tests should not occur until at least 24 hours after cementing to prevent micro-annuli. General procedures involve closing BOP equipment and pumping down lines or against cement plugs to specified pressures based on the casing/liner type.

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    Casing and liners must be pressure tested to the lowest of several design limits to check for integrity issues. Tests should not occur until at least 24 hours after cementing to prevent micro-annuli. General procedures involve closing BOP equipment and pumping down lines or against cement plugs to specified pressures based on the casing/liner type.

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    Casing and liners must be pressure tested to the lowest of several design limits to check for integrity issues. Tests should not occur until at least 24 hours after cementing to prevent micro-annuli. General procedures involve closing BOP equipment and pumping down lines or against cement plugs to specified pressures based on the casing/liner type.

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    Casing and Liner Pressure Testing

    The test pressure and the justification for this pressure shall be clearly indicated in the testing programme. The casing string shall be tested to the lowest
    value as dictated by the following pressure:
    the casing/liner design pressure or 75% of the casing/liner burst
    the wellhead design pressure
    the working rating of the BOP
    cement head working pressure rating
    float equipment manufacturers test pressure limitation.

    Timing
    If the casing is not pressure tested immediately after bumping the plugs, the casing shall not be pressure tested until either:
    at least 24 hours have elapsed from the time the cement slurry was in place
    or
    the tail slurry samples retained at the surface have set to a rock hard state.
    This is to prevent Micro Annuli forming between the casing and cement

    General Casing Pressure Testing Procedure


    General pressure testing procedure for casing/liner shall be as shown in the following table:
    Casing/Liner Type
    Surface/Intermediate/
    Production Casing/liner

    Testing Procedure
    Tests shall be conducted after nippling up and pressure testing the BOP stack, by either:

    closing the shear/blind rams and pumping down the choke/kill line
    or
    closing the annular preventer or pipe rams around the drill string and pressure testing prior to
    drilling out the shoe track.
    Drive Pipe/Structural Casing (surface wellheads only ) Can only be pressure tested against a cement plug
    (if present) to the rating of the
    Diverter system (typically 200-300psi ).
    Conductor casing
    Shall be pressure tested by closing the pipe rams around the drill string and pressure testing
    (surface wellheads only)
    prior to drilling out the cement.

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