Running Instructions Casing Centralizer

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RUNNING INSTRUCTIONS
Centralizers – Running Instructions
Contents
1. CENTRALIZER TYPES OVERVIEW 1
2. GENERAL INSTALLATION 2
2.1 HINGED COLLARS 2
2.2 COLLARS WITH SETSCREWS 2
3. INSTALLATION FOR SPECIFIC TYPE 3
3.A INSTALLATION OF STANDARD BOW SPRING CENTRALIZERS 4
3.B INSTALLATION OF TURBOLIZER CENTRALIZERS 4
3.C INSTALLATION OF SEMI RIGID BOW SPRING CENTRALIZERS 5
3.D INSTALLATION OF SOLID BODY AND RIGID CENTRALIZERS 5
3.E ASSEMBLY OF NON-WELD CENTRALIZERS 6
4. STOP COLLARS INSTALLATION 6
5. CEMENT BASKET INSTALLATION 6
6. CABLE WALL CLEANER INSTALLATION
1. CENTRALIZER TYPES OVERVIEW
BOW SPRING AND SEMI-POSITIVE CENTRALIZERS
Top-Co’s primary cementing tools and casing accessories are essential components of a successful casing or cement-
ing program. Casing accessories assist the operator in successfully placing and supporting the casing string in the
wellbore, enhancing mud removal and providing zone isolation.
Proper selection of primary cementing accessories reduces the need for a secondary cementing, ensuring tubulars
get to target depth, achieve optimum circulation and reducing risk of differential sticking.
Centralizers provide uniform annular clearance and reduce friction while running casing.
Top-Co API bow spring centralizers meet or exceed API Specification 10D, meeting starting, running and restoring
force criteria. These are available as either welded or non-welded centralizers with hinged or slip-on collars with
hinged centralizers offering easy installation around casing coupling or stop collars.
Slip-on centralizers, a stronger design, are utilized in close tolerance applications and cannot be run over couplings
or stop collars. They must be installed with set screws or between stop collars.
Bow Spring Centralizers feature the following benefits:
• Centralization of casing in the wellbore
• Prevention of differential sticking
• Smoother running capability due to reduction of frictional forces
• Allows for reciprocation or rotation of casing
• Provision of reinforcement to the cement column
• Bows can be configured to meet any hole diameter
The design of the non-weld centralizer offer unique features including the ability to ship unassembled yielding
shipping and storage cost reductions. The compatibility of the bows with various end band sizes reduces inventory
requirements and gives increased flexibility of casing and hole size combinations.
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RIGID CENTRALIZERS AND STAND-OFF BANDS
Rigid or positive centralizers were developed for hole conditions that do not allow API centralizers to be run. Typical
applications would be tight restrictions in the well bore and deviated or horizontal wells.
Special applications include:
• Close tolerance requiring an outside diameter only slightly larger than hole size.
• Free rotation of the string requiring solid collar centralizers.
• Vastly greater side load conditions requiring rigid centralizers to meet stand-off requirements.
• Deviated and horizontal well applications where the bore hole is well consolidated and a good primary cement-
ing job is necessary.
• Slip-on centralizers are suitable for pipe reciprocation requirements.
Rigid Centralizers feature a welded or non-welded construction similar to bow spring centralizers with 2 collars at
both ends and rigid ribs running between them. Stand-Off bands are of solid welded or cast construction, and are
typically much shorter than rigid centralizers.
Rigid Centralizers aid in positively centering the casing in the wellbore during cementing operations. Applicable for
horizontal and highly deviated well designs, the rigid centralizers center casing in previous cemented casings and
liner overlaps and can assist in aligning casings through well heads near surface.
Stand-Off Bands can be used in well designs where casing reciprocation and / or rotation is required and was devel-
oped to be used in long string cementation highly deviated applications. These centralizers are typically more robust
than rigid centralizers due to the nature of their construction.
Heavy Duty Stand-Off Bands are designed for extreme loading conditions, or where the centralizer is expected to
see a lot of abuse.
Rigid Centralizers and Stand-Off bands are available with straight or spiral blade options. Spiral blade stand-off
bands have better stand-off capabilities as they are able to bridge key holes in the well bore, however they create
added friction during run in.
To determine left hand or right hand spiral look at the centralizer standing upright in running position. Looking at
the bottom of the blade or bow follow it to the top and if the top of the blade or bow shifts to the right then it is a
right hand spiral centralizer.
Left Hand Vane Right Hand Vane
All Stand-Off bands are available with integral set screws, or they can be used with stop collars. Stand-Off bands can
also be installed to float on the casing and will allow the casing to be reciprocated or rotated without issue.
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STOP COLLARS
Stop Collars are used as an integral accessory to keep centralizers and other casing attachments in place on the
casing string. The collar design should allow casing rotation with no or limited protrusions that can hang up on a
centralizer blade. A stop collar should always have a stronger holding force than the centralizer starting force and is
built to API recommended practice 10D2.
CABLE WALL CLEANERS

Many operators run cable wall cleaners to assist in removing excess filter cake and gelled mud from the wellbore,
providing a better bonding surface for the cement. The cable wall cleaners also add localized turbulence during
cementing process and can also act as steel reinforcement in the cement sheath.
CEMENT BASKETS
Cement baskets are designed to help support the cement column and reduce some of the annular pressure in the
well bore created by the cement column. They can also be used as an alternative to an external casing packer in
certain situations. Note: Cement baskets are not centralizers and will not centralizer the casing in the wellbore.
PROPER CENTRALIZER SELECTION

Successful casing and proper placement of casing centralizers are necessary in obtaining a quality primary cement
job. Proper selection is the key and Top-Co’s spacing program can be run to ensure efficient casing stand-off, torque
and drag. It calculates the minimum number of centralizers and determines optimum placement. The program can
be designed to advise minimum spacing or minimum stand-off.
Minimum Standoff
Sag Point
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2. GENERAL INSTALLATION
2.1 HINGED COLLAR

2.2 COLLARS WITH SET SCREWS
All centralizers are designed to be either slipped on to or hinged over the casing/coupling the casing.
Top-Co’s standard centralizers are designed to measure casing outside diameter plus 1.5%. This is larger than the API
tolerance on casing outside diameters by 0.5%.
Unless equipped with set screws, the centralizer should be able to be free to rotate after installation.
2.1 HINGED COLLARS
For Hinged centralizers, after the centralizer is installed on the casing, drive the hinge pins into the hinge until the
head of the hinge pin is flush with the centralizer end band.
Bend the protruding end of the hinge pin to ensure it is retained in the hinge. The centralizer should be able to be
freely rotated.
IMPORTANT: Make sure that pin end is bent so that it cannot be accidentally removed from hinge.
2.2 COLLARS WITH SETSCREWS
All centralizers with set screws on the collar must be installed with the
set screws on the bottom (towards the well bore). All Turbolizers have
set screws.
Torque screws to 25 in.lbs
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3. INSTALLATION FOR SPECIFIC TYPE
3.A STANDARD BOW SPRING CENTRALIZERS

3.B TURBOLIZER CENTRALIZERS
3.C SEMI RIGID BOW SPRING CENTRALIZERS
3.D SOLID BODY AND RIGID CENTRALIZERS
3.E NON-WELD CENTRALIZERS
3.A INSTALLATION OF STANDARD BOW SPRING STABILIZERS
Types: 300 305 313 350 850 302 310 320 355 870 304 311 336 370
If at all possible, Centralizers with a bow spring design that have a starting & running force should be pulled into the
wellbore by the weight of previously run casing.
All bow spring centralizers must be installed either over casing couplings or Stop Collars.
The distance between the Centralizer end bands is great enough that the Centralizer can be installed over standard
API Buttress and 8rd casing couplings.
NOTE: If bow spring centralizers are installed between stop collars or allowed to free float on the casing, the bows
will expand when they encounter under-gauge or reduced hole sizes causing unusual running forces and may pre-
vent the casing from passing through the hole.
By installing a bow spring centralizer over a stop collar or casing coupling the lower centralizer collar will be fixed
during the running operation. With the lower collar fixed the centralizer bow springs will reduce in diameter when
an under-gauge hole is encountered and the centralizer will freely pass through the under-gauge section of the hole.
Over the Stop Collar Over the Casing Coupling Improper Installation
Eliminates need for stop collar.
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3.B TURBOLIZER CENTRALIZERS
Types: 320 321

Turbolizer centralizers feature blades to agitate the fluid as it flows by the centralizer. These types of centralizers are
installed similar to a Type 300 centralizer as outlined in Section 2. Note, that since these centralizers have set screws,
no stop collars are required.
Type 320 Turbolizers have a vane design that is intended to mount over casing. They can be mounted over coupling
as well, however the turbolizer blades need to be compressed to do so (may be more difficult to do)
Type 321 Turbolizers are designed primarily to mount over coupling.
Type 320 Type 321
3.C SEMI RIGID BOW SPRING CENTRALIZERS
Types: 335 337 385 885
Semi Rigid design and should only be installed over Top-Co stop collars.
The semi-rigid design can NOT be installed over casing couplings; the coupling will not allow the springs to fully
compress and it will not be possible to run casing into the well.
Top-Co recommends that all centralizers with Semi Rigid bow design be installed over type 415 or 416 stop collars.
Type 335 Installed over Improper

casing w. stop collar installation over coupling
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Types: 336
The spring design of the 336 allows the centralizer to be laced over the casing coupling.
When the bow upset contacts the casing the force exerted by the centralizer to center the casing increases dramat-
ically and allows this style of centralizer to act similar to a positive or rigid bar centralizer.
Type 336
Installed over Cou- This is the ONLY Semi Rigid Type of centralizer that can be laced over
pling casing coupling
3.D SOLID BODY AND RIGID CENTRALIZERS
Types: 317 331 342 318 340 346 330 341 380 880
Top-Co solid body and rigid centralizers can be allowed to float on the pipe which will allow the Stand-off Band to
travel to the leading edge on the coupling and act as a coupling guide. Centralizers can also be run between Type 415
& 416 liner Stop Collars to locate them in a desired location on the casing string.
Type 415 and 416 Type 331

liner stop collars hinged centralizer
Hinged style rigid centralizers (i.e. Type 331) can be laced over coupling or a stop collar, or be allowed to float free.
Centralizers with set screws do not require stop collars.
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3.E NON-WELD CENTRALIZERS
1. Gather all required parts as follows:

End bands, Retainer Bands and Hinge Pins all require 4 parts each per Centralizer. Ribs or Bows requirements are
shown in the table below:
Size: min/inches No. of Bows

114.3 / 4 ½, 127.0 / 5.0 4
139.7 / 5 ½, 146.1 / 5 ¾, 168.3 / 6 5/8 4
177.8 / 7.0, 193.7 / 7 5/8, 219.1 / 8 5/8 6
244.5 / 9 5/8 6
273.0 / 10 ¾, 298.5 / 11 ¾ 8
323.9 / 12 ¾, 339.8 / 13 3/8 10
508.0 / 20.0 12
2. Take one End Band, one Repair Band and half of all the Centralizer Ribs. Place End of Rib in the Centralizer Collar
Rib Pocket nearest to hinge and insert Retainer Band through opening between Rib and End Band.
3. Place next Rib in End Band Pocket adjacent to Installed Rib and rotate Retaining Band through the next pocket. Re-
peat this procedure until all pockets in the End Band have been filled with Ribs. The Retaining Band should be inserted
to the point where it allows for the Hinge Pin to be inserted through the hinge without obstruction.
4. Place an End Band for the other end of the Centralizer over the upper ends of the Ribs.
5. Insert Retaining Band through the openings between the Ribs and End Bands to retain the Ribs as done previ-
ously on the lower collar.
6. Assemble second half of Centralizer by repeating steps B thru E. Upon completion of second half, insert matching
hinges together and drive Hinge Pin through hinge ensuring that the head of the pin seats against top of hinge. Now the
Centralizer may be placed over casing and closed with Hinge Pin placed and secured in two remaining hinges.
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4. STOP COLLARS INSTALLATION
TYPE 405 INSTALLATION
A single bolt is used to tighten the stop collar to the casing.

This design does not produce markings or indentations on
the casing after installation.
1.Locate stop collar at desired position on casing joint
2.Place locking washer on bolt and insert in housing.
3.Thread nut onto bolt and tighten with a torque
wrench to desired ft/lbs torque (see Type 405 Spec
Table).
STOP COLLAR SIZE STOP COLLAR TYPE FASTENER TORQUE @ 25 API SPEC. 10D
FT. LB. MAXIMUM STARTING
FORCE TO MOVE COLLAR FORCE LBS.
LBS.
114.3MM/ 4 ½” 405 2623 464
139.7MM/5 ½” 405 2300 620
177.8MM/7” 405 2272 1040
219.8MM/8 5/8” 405 2390 1440
244.5MM/9 5/8” 405 2480 1600
273.0MM/10 ¾” 405 2700 2040
339.7MM/13 3/8” 405 3233 2440

1.Locate Top-Co Type 410 Stop Collar at desired posi-
tion on casing joint.
2.Close unit around casing and insert hinge nail through
the hinge. Drive the hinge nail through the hinge until
head of hinge nail is flush to hinge.
3.Bend end of hinge nail to lock hinge nail into hinge.
4.Start each of the two (2) spiral locking nails into the
two slots on the outside of the stop collar.
5.Drive each spiral locking nail into the internal groove
until the spiral begins to enter the slot.
6.Use an impact hammer to drive the spiral locking
nails completely into the grooves. Alternate be-
tween the two nails, driving each one in about 1.0”
(25.4mm) and then applying force to the other spiral
locking nail.
7.Drive each spiral locking nail in until it is flush with
the stop collar.
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1. Slip Top-Co Type 416 Stop Collar onto casing. If Type

416 has beveled edge, position the beveled face in the
opposite di- rection of centralizer.
2. Locate Type 416 Stop Collar at desired position on casing joint.
3. Begin to hand tight the set screws with an Allen wrench
Type 416
to se- cure the stop collar, making sure that the casing is
centered in the collar. Then Torque the set screws with a
torque wrench to 35 ft/lbs. each.
4. Start with one set screw and then torque the set screw
on the opposite side of the stop collar. Continue this process
until all set screws have been tightened to 35 ft/lb.
Type 416 - beveled edge
5. CEMENT BASKET INSTALLATION

set screws
1.Locate Cement Basket at desired position in casing string,
usually above questionable zone. It is recommended that
cement baskets be grouped at 2 per joint minimum.
2.Install cement basket over casing with Basket fins to be
pointed down.
Note: Cement basket should ideally be run with stop collars
on the inside. Although possible, it is not recommended to
run cement baskets without stop collars as they will expand
causing higher run in forces.
3.Tighten stop collar screws to 35 ft/lbs using an allen wrench.
4. Run casing in hole.
Note: It is not recommended to run cement baskets without fins down
stop collars as they will expand causing higher run in forces
Solid End Band Style

Stop collars can be shipped with stop collar inside, or the stop col-
lar can be inserted by pressing down on the ends of the cement
basket to spread the bows enough to pass the stop collar through.
(figure 1)
Hinged End Band Style
Stop collar should be slipped over casing before lacing cement figure 1
basket over casing. (figure 2)
Solid End Band w. Set Screws
figure 2
Stop collar is needed. (figure 3)
figure 3
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6. CABLE WALL CLEANER INSTALLATION
1. Locate Top-Co Type 452 Cable Wall Cleaner at desired

position on casing joint. Type 452 is hinged and can be laced
over casing.
2. Place locking washer on bolt and insert bolt in housing.
3. Thread nut onto bolt and tighten with a torque wrench to 25
ft/lbs.
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1. CENTRALIZER TYPES OVERVIEW

BOW SPRING AND SEMI-POSITIVE CENTRALIZERS

RIGID CENTRALIZERS AND STAND-OFF BANDS

Left Hand Vane Right Hand Vane

CABLE WALL CLEANERS

PROPER CENTRALIZER SELECTION

2.1 HINGED COLLAR

2.1 HINGED COLLARS

2.2 COLLARS WITH SETSCREWS

Torque screws to 25 in.lbs

3. INSTALLATION FOR SPECIFIC TYPE

3.A STANDARD BOW SPRING CENTRALIZERS

3.A INSTALLATION OF STANDARD BOW SPRING STABILIZERS

3.B TURBOLIZER CENTRALIZERS

Types: 320 321

Type 320 Type 321

3.C SEMI RIGID BOW SPRING CENTRALIZERS

Types: 335 337 385 885

Type 335 Installed over Improper

3.D SOLID BODY AND RIGID CENTRALIZERS

Type 415 and 416 Type 331

3.E NON-WELD CENTRALIZERS

1. Gather all required parts as follows:

Size: min/inches No. of Bows

4. STOP COLLARS INSTALLATION

TYPE 405 INSTALLATION

A single bolt is used to tighten the stop collar to the casing.

TYPE 410 INSTALLATION

TYPE 416 INSTALLATION

1. Slip Top-Co Type 416 Stop Collar onto casing. If Type

Type 416 - beveled edge

5. CEMENT BASKET INSTALLATION

TYPE 400 INSTALLATION

Solid End Band Style

6. CABLE WALL CLEANER INSTALLATION

TYPE 452 INSTALLATION

1. Locate Top-Co Type 452 Cable Wall Cleaner at desired

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