Anybody care to shed some light on this? i'm going to the hiring day too, same product line as well. hehe

Cementing also include in the pressure pumping division. Cementing and pressure testing are part of cementer's job.

this pressure pumping is a unique coil tubing operation mainly provided by SLB and BHI. Pressure pumping mainly used during the early completion of well and also during the remedial job. If I am not mistaken. they are used to enhance production by creating fracture alongside the wellbore: greater penetration into the producing zone.

I don't know it is hard or not. From my observations, at one time normally will have 1 x cementer and 1 x equip operator/helper (sometime 2). Most of the time doing physical jobs such as servicing the cementing units, making up and rig down cementing tools helped by the rig crews, doing the cementing calculation (or together with people in town) etc.

Cementing and pressure testing are not everyday performed on the rig. Many days the crews are only standby and performing the maintenance on the unit.

When doing the cementing job, the accuracy is very important. And during the pressure testing, the crew normally dealing with 10,000 psi or up to 15, 000 psi.

From what I know BJ Services (now a BH company), Dowell (a slb company) and Halliburton have this cementing services.

Remember Deepwater Horizon??

Prior to the disaster...Quoted from "Deep Water
The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future
of Offshore Drilling
Report to the President
National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon
Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling
January 2011"

At 5:45 a.m. on Tuesday, April 20, 2010, a
Halliburton Company cementing engineer sent
an e-mail from the rig Deepwater Horizon, in
the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast, to his
colleague in Houston. He had good news: “We have
completed the job and it went well.”1

At 8:52 a.m., Morel e-mailed the Houston office to reiterate: “Just wanted to let everyone
know the cement job went well. Pressures stayed low, but we had full returns on the entire
job…We should be coming out of the hole [well] shortly.” At 10:14 a.m., David Sims, BP’s
new drilling operations manager in charge of Macondo, e-mailed to say, “Great job guys!”