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March 2000 Vol. 221 No. 3

Basic Cements

Cementing Categories

Material	Description	BJ Services	Halliburton	Nowsco- Fracmaster Canada	San Antonio	Schlumberger
Portland Cement	API Class A, B and ASTM Type I or II cements	A, B, Type I, II	Standard	A, B, Type I, II	A, B	A, B
	API Class G or H	G, H	Premium	G, H	G, H	G, H
	API Class C and ASTM Type III	C, Type III	Premium Plus	C, Type III		C, Type III
High aluminate cement	Calcium aluminate cement	Lumnite, Ciment Fondu	Climent Fondu	Climent Fondu	Climent Fondu	Lumnite, Ciment Fondu
Commercial lightweight cements	TXI Lightweight or equivalent	TXI Lightweight	TXI Lightweight	TXI Lightweight	Lightweight	TXI Lightweight
Commercial expanding cements	Chem Comp, ASTM Type K or similar
Microfine Portland cement	MC-300 or equivalent		Micromatrix Cement			D169 Microfine cement
Microfine Portland cement and microfine blast furnace slag blend	MC-500 or equivalent		Matrix Cement	Microcem 1000		D163 Microfine cement
High fineness cement	Cement ground finder than normal but not as fine as microfine cements	Fine Grind Class C Cement
Blast furnace slag (BFS)	Ground, granulated or pelletized blast furnace slag	Blast Furnace Slag Cememnt	Slag Cement	Slag-10, Slag-20, Slag-25, Slag-30		Blast Furnace Slag (D930)
Microfine blast furnace slag	MC-100 or equivalent
Blend of Portland cement and blast furnace slag	Blend to improve poor quality Portland cements and improve additive response in some areas	Slagment*
Storable liquid cement slurry	Water-based liquid cement slurry	Liquid Stone*
Acid soluble cement	Non-Portland inorganic cement completely soluble in acid	Magne Plus	Acid soluble cement		Magna Cement	Acid soluble cement
Synthetic resin cement	Epoxy resin cement		EPSEAL**, Stratalock			Synthetic cement

(1) No compositional name used. Blends are referred to by their actual composition (35:65:6, 50:50:2, etc.)
(2) Fly ash cement or FAC is used to describe all blends of flyash and cement. The ratio is specific for the application.
* Registered company marks:
Sure-Fill, Cenolite and Liquid Stone are marks of BJ Services.
PERMAFROST, VERSASET and EPSEAL are marks of Halliburton.
ARCTICSET, HILITE, LITEFILL, SALTBOND, Self-Stress and WELLBOND are all marks of Schlumberger.

ASTM - American Society for Testing and Materials
MC-100, MC-300 and MC-500 are distributed by Geochemical Corp, Ridgewood, NJ.
Climent Fondu is a product of Lafarge Fondu International (Lafarge Calcium Aluminates in the United States).TXI Lightweight is a product of Texas Industries.

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