Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Energy Procedia 37 (2013) 5628 – 5641 GHGT-11 Cement sheath integrity for CO2 storage – An integrated perspective Axel-Pierre Boisa*, Manh-Huyen Vua,b,c, Siavash Ghabezloob, Jean Sulemb, André Garnierc, Jean-Bent Laudetc b a CurisTec, 1bis allée de la Combe, 69380 Lissieu, France Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech, Laboratoire Navier-Cermes, 77455 Marne la Vallée, France c Total, CSTJF, Avenue Laribau, 64000 Pau, France Abstract Two types of mechanisms could lead to loss of cement-sheath integrity: mechanical and chemical degradations However, chemical degradation by CO2 does not seem to be a real threat when the cement sheath is initially without default Hence, it is important to understand the mechanical mechanisms that could lead to loss of cement-sheath integrity before and during CO2 sequestration This is with this objective that Total has developed an integrated perspective whereby all events in the life of the well, are scrutinized The description of this perspective is the objective of this paper © 2013 The Elsevier Ltd © TheAuthors Authors.Published Publishedbyby Elsevier Ltd Selection and/or responsibility of GHGT Selection and/orpeer-review peer-reviewunder under responsibility of GHGT Keywords: Cement-sheath integrity: cement properties; chemical degradation; cement hydration Introduction The implementation of CO2 storage in geological media requires a proper assessment of the risks of CO2 leakage from the storage sites In particular, it is necessary to evaluate the risk that cement sheaths represent leakage pathways as this could occur if cement becomes damaged or when debonding exists at one of the cement-sheaths’ boundaries Assuming that cement slurry properties and job execution are as * Corresponding author Tel.: +0-000-000-0000 ; fax: +0-000-000-0000 E-mail address: apbois@curistec.com 1876-6102 © 2013 The Authors Published by Elsevier Ltd Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of GHGT doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2013.06.485 Axel-Pierre Bois et al / Energy Procedia 37 (2013) 5628 – 5641 per design, the isolation defect may be due to improper cement placement or to inappropriate set-cement properties There exist two types of mechanisms that theoretically could lead to cement-sheath loss of integrity: mechanical degradation when cement is submitted to compressive or tensile loadings that are too high [1], and chemical degradation when cement gets in contact with CO2 enriched-water [2-4] However, field [5] and degradation-kinetics data [6] show that chemical degradation is not very fast unless leakage pathways already exist that could increase the contact area between cement sheath and CO2 The worst case is when both degradation mechanisms occur For example, a cement sheath that is mechanically damaged before entering in contact with a degrading fluid allows this fluid to penetrate deeper in the cement sheath, which accelerates cement chemical-reactions Hence, it is of paramount importance to understand the mechanical mechanisms that could lead to loss of cement-sheath integrity before and during CO2 storage This is with this objective that Total has launched an extensive R&D project whereby tests were performed in laboratory and mathematical models were developed to account for the various modes of loss of cement-sheath integrity These developments led to an integrated perspective whereby the risk of loss of integrity is evaluated by analyzing all events in the life of the well, from drilling to definitive plugging, and further The description of this integrated perspective is the object of this paper The first part of the paper presents new tests performed in the laboratory on cement specimens that were loaded under triaxial stresses and contacted by CO2 at the same time These tests show that the risk of loss of cement-sheath integrity is low when no prior defect exists The second part presents tests performed in the laboratory on cement specimens to illustrate the main features of oilwell-cement mechanical behavior It also analyzes the consequences of these properties in terms of mechanical behavior of cement-sheaths The last part details the integrated perspective Triaxial test whereby cement is contacted by CO2 at the same time Several groups have conducted laboratory experiments to determine the effect of carbonic acid on well cements Kutchko et al [7], Duguid et al [2], and Barlet-Gouedard et al [3] have recently examined the effects of exposure to CO2 in water on well cements under carbon capture and sequestration (CCS)-like conditions in the laboratory The studies of Kutchko et al [7] show that the carbonation front movement was small, in the order of 440 microns, for test duration of 90 days in their cement samples Studies by Duguid et al [2] under static condition reveal that the degradation front movement was small with an increase in permeability The work of Barlet-Gouedard et al [3] studies the effect of both carbonic acid and supercritical CO2 on Portland cement and CO2-resistant cement formulations The experimental results show that the depth of penetration was higher for samples exposed to water-saturated CO2 and lesser for samples exposed to carbonic acid Although much information is known about carbonation and its effect on cement, more studies were necessary to develop new mathematical models that allow simulating cement degradation by CO2enriched fluid The objectives of the experimental program are to assess the kinetics and phenomenology of the changes that occur in different class-G Portland cements exposed to CO2-enriched aqueous fluids at MPa and two different temperatures The experimental program consisted of 1) Carbonation tests using neat G cement, at a temperature of 90°C (194° F) and a pressure (supercritical CO2 above water) of MPa ; 2) Carbonation test using G cement with silica flour (to prevent strength retrogression), at a temperature of 140°C (284°F) and at the same CO2 pressure of MPa; 3) Coupled chemo-mechanical tests (dynamic tests) on similar class-G cement and similar CO2-rich water 5629 5630 Axel-Pierre Bois et al / Energy Procedia 37 (2013) 5628 – 5641 All the samples were prepared according to ISO 10426-1 specifications The experimental set-up simulates downhole “static” conditions: the samples were immersed in water in a cell thermally regulated and pressurized by CO2 Cement samples were exposed to CO2-saturated water for various lengths of time (from one week to months) and were characterized using advanced methods for chemical and mineralogical analysis (QC based on X-ray tomography, X-ray tomography, SEM, XRD, TGA-TDA…) and mechanical characterization Only the dynamic tests are described hereunder Their objective was to assess the impact of in situ stresses on the transport and mechanical properties of class-G Portland cement at selected downhole conditions and in the presence of CO2 For all the experiments, lime-saturated water was injected initially into the samples, followed by different fluids: CO2-saturated water or supercritical CO2 The dynamic test (Figure 1) with CO2-saturated water was conducted for 12 days with a hydrostatic stress phase followed by a deviatoric stress phase Initial conditions were: injection pressure pi = 2.5 MPa; confining stress 3= MPa; axial stress 1= 3.5 MPa during hydrostatic phase and MPa during deviatoric phase (deviatoric stress - = MPa) Figure shows the evolution of the parameters during the dynamic test, the sample’s axial deformation ( 1) and the total volume of CO2-rich water injected It appears from the main results that adding CO2 to the water injected throughout the mechanically stressed cement has no significant impact on deformation of the cement (no change in the strain rate is observed) Simply, compaction was observed, as expected due to the increase in deviatoric stress No change in the cement’s mechanical properties was measured during CO2-rich water injection The permeability (K) measured during the hydrostatic phase (lasting days) is about 2.0 μDarcy, and decreases during the deviatoric phase by about 0.4 μDarcy After close to 12 days of the experiment, at the beginning of CO2-rich water injection, the flow rate decreases and permeability could no longer be measured The decrease in permeability, and ultimate clogging of the sample, is explained by the reaction of a thin layer of cement where the CO2-rich water is injected, whereas the injected fluid does not impact most of the sample Mineralogical and microstructural analyses show that, for the sample area directly exposed to injection of the aggressive fluid, the thickness of the carbonated material is very low, 300 μm, compared to 1.2 mm after 12 days for a test performed without applied stresses Figure Schematic of the dynamic chemo-mechanical test from [8-9] Axel-Pierre Bois et al / Energy Procedia 37 (2013) 5628 – 5641 Figure Evolution of parameters and sample response during a dynamic experiment from [8-9] The results of the coupled chemo-mechanical (“dynamic”) test are consistent with observations made by Carey et al [5] who showed that in situ cement sheath samples were not altered by CO2 attack after 30 years of CO2 injection The cement permeability still prevents significant flow of CO2 through the cement matrix These data were used to build a mathematical model that is able to simulate the evolution of the mechanical properties of the sample when contacted by a CO2-enriched fluid under stress Hence it is possible to simulate what happens when such fluids contact a cement sheath Oilwell-cement mechanical behavior and consequences in terms of cement-sheath modeling The key point of cement-sheath modeling is to select cement constitutive-laws that efficiently predict cement behavior Three aspects are described in this part 3.1 Poro-mechanical behavior One of the achievements of the experimental program is a series of thermo-poro-mechanical laboratory experiments performed on a class G cement-system prepared with a water-to-cement ratio of 0.44 under pressure and temperature [10, 11, 12] Samples were prepared and cured in lime-saturated water at 90°C during at least months The experimental program consisted in drained and undrained isotropic and unjacketed compression tests, as well as drained and undrained heating tests and permeability evaluation tests The results of this experimental program confirm that the behavior of the set cement can indeed be described within the classical Biot’s theory of poro-mechanics [13] Moreover, it permitted the evaluation of the numerical values of different thermo-poro-elastic parameters of the tested cement system, summarized in Table The evaluation of these parameters had been experimentally performed for a particular class G cement system with w/c=0.44 Ghabezloo [14-17] then extended them to other cement systems with different w/c ratio and chemical composition by means of micromechanical modeling and homogenization method 5631 5632 Axel-Pierre Bois et al / Energy Procedia 37 (2013) 5628 – 5641 Table Summary of thermo-poro-mechanical parameters of one class G set cement with w/c=0.44 from [10,37,38] Parameter Symbol Unit Value Drained bulk modulus Kd GPa 8.7 Undrained Bulk modulus Ku GPa 11.2 Skempton coefficient B - 0.4 Unjacketed modulus Ks GPa 21.0 Biot effective stress coefficient b - 0.59 Drained volumetric thermal expansion coefficient d 1/°C 6.0×10-5 Undrained volumetric thermal expansion coefficient u 1/°C 1.1×10-4 MPa/°C 0.6 m2 1.1×10-19 Thermal pressurization coefficient Permeability k The requirement to simulate cement in the frame of poro-mechanics theories is in opposition with the actual analytical [1, 18-19] and numerical [20-25] models by the facts they are based on continuous, onephase modeling and not take into account the poro-mechanical behavior of cement Looking at cement as a porous material implies that it is important to determine under which condition cement hardens when located in front of a formation barrier, and what is its pore pressure when it is set Numerical simulations of fluid diffusion from formation to cement-sheath were performed [26] to evaluate what are the exchanges between formation and cement-sheath Considering that formations with 10nD permeability value are fair barriers, those with nD permeability values are good barriers, and those with permeability values lower than 0.01 nD are very good barriers, they showed the poro-mechanical behavior of cement during hydration and after having set is not trivial Hence, they showed that cement hydration never occurs under drained conditions when located in front of a barrier unless the barrier is of fair quality and the pore pressures are very high In all other conditions cement hydration occurs under undrained conditions It does either when the cement sheath is located in front of an oil bearing formation, or when it is located in the annulus made by two tubulars As a consequence, the pore pressure that exists in the cement sheath during cement hydration only depends on cement formulation and cement-sheaths characteristics, and not on the formation pore pressure They also showed that it may take between days and weeks for a cement sheath located in front of a fair formation barrier to have its pore pressure equal to the formation pressure if cement pore-pressure had been lowered down to vaporization pressure during the hydration phase; it would take weeks to months for a good formation barrier and years for a very good one However, if the initial quantity of water in the slurry is so large that vaporization has not occurred, increasing cement pore pressure to formation pore pressure can occur in days 3.2 Creep and damage Set-cement exhibits a complex microstructure including different phases such as hydrated products, non-hydrated clinker, capillary pores and water The main hydration products are Calcium Silicate Hydrate (C-S-H), Portlandite (CH), Calcium Sulfoaluminate (Ettringite and Monosulfoaluminate) This heterogeneous microstructure depends upon several parameters such as cement type, additives, hydration temperature, fluid composition during hydration, and water-to-cement ratio A series of isotropic compression tests [10, 27] and uniaxial compressive creep tests [28] were performed to analyze the impact of cement heterogeneity Samples used for uniaxial creep tests are similar to those used for the isotropic 5633 Axel-Pierre Bois et al / Energy Procedia 37 (2013) 5628 – 5641 Confining Pressure variation (MPa) tests with the exception of the hydration temperature that was 60°C or 90°C The tests, performed on water-saturated samples at room temperature (20°C), showed that (Figure & Figure 4): • Creep and damage of cement exist not only under uniaxial loading but also under isotropic loading Hysteresis, permanent strains under drained and undrained conditions, and delayed response of pore pressure under undrained conditions are observed during isotropic loading The isotropic compression tests were analyzed in the framework of poro-visco-plasticity theory [27], showing the significant creep of the hardened cement paste under isotropic loading The creep can be attributed to the collapse of large gel pores [29], time-dependent micro-cracking [30, 31], hydrodynamic alteration [32, 33] and sliding of C-S-H sheets [30, 34] 60 50 40 D-1 30 D-2 D-3 20 D-4 D-5 10 0 -1000 4000 9000 14000 19000 24000 29000 Volumetric strain (μm/m) Figure Five pressure-volumetric strain curves recorded during drained isotropic compression tests, from [10] 6000 Data-Th90, C28 Data-Th90, C25 Data-Th90, C20 Data-Th60, C28 Data-Th60, C20 Data-T60, C26 Uniaxial strain (μm/m) 5000 4000 3000 2000 1000 0 200 400 Time (h) 600 800 1000 Figure Six uniaxial strain-time curves recorded during uniaxial creep tests (T: hydration temperature, C: axial stress) from [28] 5634 Axel-Pierre Bois et al / Energy Procedia 37 (2013) 5628 – 5641 • Young’s modulus and uniaxial compressive strength of set cement are lower at higher hydration temperature, while the mercury porosity is higher (Table 2) This is attributed to a more heterogeneous microstructure of the cement hydrated at higher temperature Table Effect of hydration temperature on class G set cement with w/c=0.44 from [28] Curing temperature [°C] Average UCS [MPa] Young’s modulus [GPa] Mercury porosity [%] 90 46.5 11.5 23 60 55.0 14.0 26-27 • Creep and damage increase with curing temperature This can be attributed to the more heterogeneous microstructure and higher porosity; • Primary creep is observed for the samples loaded at 20 MPa for both hydration temperatures The strain is 550 μm/m after 220 h for the sample hydrated at 60°C (Th60C20) and 800 μm/m after 325 h for the one hydrated at 90°C (Th90C20); • Secondary creep is observed for samples loaded under 25 MPa and 26 MPa (Th90C25, Th60C26) • Tertiary creep is observed for samples loaded under 28 MPa Failure occurs earlier for the sample cured at 90°C (Th90C28) The maximum strain at failure is also higher for this hydration temperature This response can be attributed to a more advanced damage state for the sample cured at 90°C and is compatible with the observation of weaker mechanical properties and more heterogeneous microstructure for this hydration temperature Assuming that temperature increases with depth, microstructural heterogeneity of set cement can also increase with depth, resulting in a reduction of mechanical properties with depth The effect of pore pressure on microstructure of set cement can be neglected [35] The actual analytical [1, 18-19] and numerical [20-25] models generally account for five types of mechanical damage induced to a cement sheath during the life of the well [26, 36]: • Debonding at the inner interface of the cement sheath, i.e., by contraction of the casing as this can create a gap if the cement is unable to follow the induced deformations; • Debonding at the outer interface of the cement sheath, i.e., by contraction of the cement sheath as this can create a gap if the formation or the outer tubular is unable to follow the induced deformations; • Compressive damage to the cement sheath when the cement sheath is located between two tubulars or between one tubular and one rigid formation, i.e., when increasing mud density as this induces large deviatoric stress variations; • Tensile damage to the cement sheath by radial cracks when the cement sheath is located between one tubular and one compliant formation, i.e., when increasing mud density as this induces tensile radial stress variations; • Tensile damage to the cement sheath by disking, i.e., by axial contraction of the cement sheath when cement cannot slide at its inner/outer boundaries These five types of mechanical damage not include the damage and creep modes observed during lab testing Moreover, assessing the quality of micro-annulus that can occur at cement-sheath boundary is not trivial [26]: If the cement sheath is located between a tubular and a formation, debonding at the outer interface of the cement sheath can create a perfectly clean micro-annulus only if the hole can remain stable while under no applied-pressure Otherwise, the formation becomes damaged, hence creating a micro-cracked zone at the interface between the cement sheath and the formation, meaning that the micro-annulus may not look like an open slot but like a zone of increase porosity and permeability Axel-Pierre Bois et al / Energy Procedia 37 (2013) 5628 – 5641 3.3 Compacting behavior of oilwell cement The eventuality that cement plastically compacts when loaded in compression is of paramount importance to understand for formation of micro-annuli [20, 30] This can occur both on the short and long term The behavior of young cement has been investigated by performing tests with the uniaxialstrain cell of the STCA (Slurry To Cement Analyzer) cells developed by Total A class G cement slurry was prepared at ambient temperature (22-23°C) with water-to-cement ratio of 0.44 It was poured in the uniaxial-strain cell and the axial load was increased up to 10 MPa at ambient temperature Cycles between MPa to 15 MPa with a frequency of 0.5 h were performed while cement was younger than 15 hours (Figure 5) From 15 hours to 25 hours, different loading paths were performed for three tests Other cycles up to 45 MPa were afterwards performed when it was older than 25 hours The cycles performed up to 45 MPa (Figure 6) showed that: • There exists a yield stress beyond which the strain evolves more rapidly, thus confirming the elastoplastic behavior of the material Other tests showed that this yield stress depends on the hydration degree and applied stress during hydration; • The compressibility of young cement in plastic phase can be to times the one in elastic phase; • The compressibility of young cement decreases with applied stress during the plastic phase Hence (Figure 5), the compressibility of cement during the plastic phase is largest for test isoth5 (axial stress decreased down to zero before testing) and lowest for test isoth6 (axial stress never decreased below 10MPa before testing) This phenomenon can be attributed to a smaller porosity of the isoth6’s sample For set cement, the compacting behavior can also be observed in the form of large permanent strains, as shown on Figure Bois et al [36] showed that the experiments performed by Goodwin and Cook [37] and Jackson’s [38] could not be explained based on conventional mechanical-models that not include the collapsible behavior of cement Jackson’s first experiment [38] consisted in the following steps 1) Have class G cement slurry mixed to 1.90 sg set into the annulus made by a 5” inner casing and a 7” outer casing; 2) Increase inner-casing pressure to 13.78 MPa, measure cement-sheath permeability to gas; 3) Decrease inner-casing pressure to 6.89 MPa, measure cement-sheath permeability to gas; 4) Repeat steps and in 13.78 MPa increments up to a maximum of 68.90 MPa inner-casing pressure The test led to the following observations: 1) Increase of permeability was observed only when the inner-casing pressure was decreased; 2) No flow was detected throughout the 13.78 MPa, 27.56 MPa , and 41.34 MPa cycles; 3) Gas started to flow as the inner-casing pressure was bled down from 55.12 MPa to 6.89 MPa and continued until the inner casing was repressurized to 13.09 MPa, at which pressure no further flow was detected; 4) Gas flow began again as the inner-casing pressure was bled down from 68.90 MPa back to 6.89MPa and continued until the inner casing was repressurized to 19.29 MPa, at which pressure no further flow was detected This experiment was simulated assuming steel behaved elastically, while cement behaved according to the modified Cam Clay model [36] Figure presents snapshots taken during a 68.90 MPa loading cycle, which confirm that by using a contracting law for cement, the main observations made by Jackson can be captured The first snapshot is taken at the beginning of the experiment, the second is taken at maximum inner-casing loading (68.90 MPa), the third is taken at the onset of debonding during unloading (25.49 MPa) and the fourth snapshot is taken after unloading has been performed down to 6.89 MPa and the micro-annulus width reaches 28.5 μm 5635 Axial stress (MPa) Axel-Pierre Bois et al / Energy Procedia 37 (2013) 5628 – 5641 40 isoth6 isoth5 isoth4 30 20 10 0 10 20 Time (h) 30 40 Figure Loading paths of three tests performed in the uniaxial-strain cell of STCA 40 30 Axial stress (MPa) 20 109 isoth6 isoth5 isoth4 10000 20000 30000 Axial strain (μm/m) 40000 50000 Figure Three axial stress-axial strain curves recorded during tests performed in the uniaxial-strain cell of STCA P inner 3,700 psi P inner 1,000 psi No μ-annuli No μ-annuli Start of μ-annuli μ-annuli = 29 μm Outer casing P inner 10,000 psi Cement P inner psi Inner casing 5636 15 Figure Snapshots taken of the simulation of Jackson’s first experiment from [36] Axel-Pierre Bois et al / Energy Procedia 37 (2013) 5628 – 5641 The importance of pore collapse in cement-sheath modeling mainly depends on the cement-system formulation, and more specifically on cement solid porosity High porosity favors pore-collapse mechanisms while low-porosity cements tend to be dilating upon failure and not contracting as with highporosity cement-systems Integrated perspective The integrated perspective developed by Total includes three steps: 1) Efficiently simulate cement hydration in order to compute the initial state of stress in the cement sheath; 2) Simulate all thermal, mechanical phases of the cement life; 3) If necessary, simulate the evolution the damage of chemical origin 4.1 The need to evaluate the state of stress after cement has set One of the reasons why the initial state of stress in the cement sheath is so important for long-term cement-sheath modeling is that this governs how far the cement sheath is from the yield surfaces and, as a consequence, how much loading it can be submitted to, before being damaged [36] Hence, Thiercelin et al [1, 18] consider that cement is under no initial effective-stress after having set Bosma et al [20] consider that in situ stresses are zero if there is a net shrinkage in cement after curing; they are equal to the formation hydrostatic pressure if there is no net-shrinkage (or expansion); they are equal to the sum of the hydrostatic pressure and the stresses due to the restrained expansion if there is a net expansion Ravi et al [21] simulate cement shrinkage/expansion through a cement-volume variation after cement has set None of these hypotheses has been validated against experience and none of them takes into account the complex nature of cement while it is hydrating: thermo-activation, exothermic reaction, ageing Without explicitly accounting for these features it may be impossible to perform a good evaluation of the state of stress in the cement sheath after it has set, and as a consequence, of the state of stress during its entire life Indeed, the initial state of stress after cement has set is mainly related to three processes [26] : The temperature increase/decrease cycle due to cement exothermic hydration, the variation in pore pressure, and the increase in grain volume To account for these phenomenon, SealWell® model [38-40] includes the following features: • When the skeleton is built not yet, cement behaves according to fluid-mechanics; • When the skeleton is built, cement behaves according to poro-mechanics; • Cement hydration leads to an increase in grain volume and to a consumption of fluid in the cement pores; • Cement hydration leads to an increase in temperature while cement properties are very weak, and to a decrease in temperature while cement is much stiffer; • Cement hydration leads to a change in cement-material’s physical and mechanical properties; • Cement-volume variation during hydration occurs while cement properties evolve 4.2 The need to simulate cement mechanical-damage Various mechanical events have to be simulated after cement hydration: • Mud pressure variations [18, 26, 36], i.e., when mud is replaced by another fluid of different density or when performing a LOT The most dangerous case occurs during cycles whereby pressure first is increased before being decreased; • Stress variations in the formation [26, 36, 41], i.e., when a reservoir is depressurized or repressurized, especially when compaction occurs; 5637 5638 Axel-Pierre Bois et al / Energy Procedia 37 (2013) 5628 – 5641 • Temperature variations in the wellbore [26, 36], i.e., when injecting CO2 Cycles, whereby temperature is first increased (decreased) before being decreased (increased), are the most dangerous loadings because they may induce non-monotonous temperature variations in the wellbore, which is the worst case for cement damage Furthermore, simulations [40] have shown that non-uniform (gradient) temperature loading is generally more dangerous than uniform (constant) temperature loading, meaning that it is important to perform efficient thermal simulations to evaluate the risk of cement damage; • Pore-pressure variations in the cement [26, 36], i.e., when the cement-sheath pore-pressure is decreased during cement hydration and is increased back to the formation pore-pressure because of fluid flow from the formation; • Dynamic loading of the wellbore, i.e., when an earthquake occurs close to the wellbore; • Cement property changes with time, including ageing, chemical degradation, and fatigue; Models have been developed that allow simulating all these events while taking into account the true behavior of cement (hydration, collapsible plasticity, creep…) Their use showed that the association of loading/unloading cycles together with the contractile behavior of cement generally is the worst case However, knowing that cement may mechanically fail, or is at the onset of failing is not sufficient to infer the risk of loss of integrity because it is not only necessary to know if cement may fail, but also on which length, and where As a consequence, the integrated perspective includes simulations that are performed all along the wells with visualization charts that allow visualize all the wells at once (Figure 8) Figure Cement sheath damage chart Axel-Pierre Bois et al / Energy Procedia 37 (2013) 5628 – 5641 Inner and outer Bondex indices characterize the risk of having a micro-annulus at the inner or outer cement boundary Damex R and S indices characterize the risk of having cement damaged in hoop traction (radial cracks) or in compression Slidex index characterizes the risk of having cement damaged in axial traction (disking) Damex index characterizes the risk of having cement damaged in any mode, and is a function of Damex R and S and of Slidex indices The color illustrates the importance of a damage risk, from no risk when the color is green, to very large risk when it is red Finally, if it appears that there is a non-negligible risk of cement to become mechanically damaged in a section where it represented a barrier, it becomes necessary to simulate the evolution the damage of chemical origin using the chemo-thermo-poro-mechanical model that has been developed based on the dynamic experiments Conclusions Total integrated perspective was developed based on two series of investigations, the first one dealt with chemical modification of cement, and the second one with mechanical damage of cement The first series of investigations provided with 1) The confirmation that the kinetics of CO2 reaction may not be very critical when cement is under bottomhole stresses, 2) A mathematical model that allows simulating the mechanical behavior of cement when chemically-degraded The second series of investigations provided with 1) Data on the mechanical behavior of cement under downhole conditions; 2) A series of mathematical models that allow simulating 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penetration was higher for samples exposed to water-saturated CO2. .. increase the contact area between cement sheath and CO2 The worst case is when both degradation mechanisms occur For example, a cement sheath that is mechanically damaged before entering in contact with