Abstract: Methods including experimentally determining a salt creep profile for a single salt or intercalated salts in a subterranean formation, designing a proposed cement slurry based on the salt creep profile, experimentally determining whether the proposed cement slurry is capable of forming a wellbore load resistant cement sheath based on actual thermal and thermo-mechanical properties of the proposed cement slurry, theoretically determining whether the proposed cement slurry is capable of forming the wellbore load resistant cement sheath by designing an electronic, cross-section geometric model of the subterranean salt formation and simulating a condition of the wellbore loads on the cured proposed cement slurry using the geometric model, establishing a final cement slurry capable of forming the wellbore load resistant cement sheath, and performing a final cementing operation with the final cement slurry in the subterranean salt formation.

Abstract: Methods for designing lost circulation materials for use in drilling wellbores penetrating subterranean formations may involve inputting a plurality of first inputs into a numerical method, the plurality of first inputs comprising a lost circulation material property input of a first LCM; calculating a plurality of first outputs from the numerical method; inputting a plurality of second inputs into the numerical method, the plurality of second inputs comprising the lost circulation material property input of a second lost circulation material; calculating a plurality of second outputs from the numerical method; comparing the first outputs to the second outputs; and developing a drilling fluid comprising a third lost circulation material based on the comparison of outputs.

Abstract: Methods including experimentally determining a salt creep profile for a single salt or intercalated salts in a subterranean formation, designing a proposed cement slurry based on the salt creep profile, experimentally determining whether the proposed cement slurry is capable of forming a wellbore load resistant cement sheath based on actual thermal and thermo-mechanical properties of the proposed cement slurry, theoretically determining whether the proposed cement slurry is capable of forming the wellbore load resistant cement sheath by designing an electronic, cross-section geometric model of the subterranean salt formation and simulating a condition of the wellbore loads on the cured proposed cement slurry using the geometric model, establishing a final cement slurry capable of forming the wellbore load resistant cement sheath, and performing a final cementing operation with the final cement slurry in the subterranean salt formation.

Abstract: Methods of formulating a cement slurry for use in a subterranean salt formation, including methods for formulating a cement slurry capable of providing long-term zonal isolation within a subterranean salt formation. The methods also take into account the effects of treatment fluids on the cement slurry, such as drilling fluids, spacer fluids, flush fluids, or other relevant fluids used to perform a subterranean formation operation.

Abstract: Methods for designing lost circulation materials for use in drilling wellbores penetrating subterranean formations may involve inputting a plurality of first inputs into a numerical method, the plurality of first inputs comprising a lost circulation material property input of a first LCM; calculating a plurality of first outputs from the numerical method; inputting a plurality of second inputs into the numerical method, the plurality of second inputs comprising the lost circulation material property input of a second lost circulation material; calculating a plurality of second outputs from the numerical method; comparing the first outputs to the second outputs; and developing a drilling fluid comprising a third lost circulation material based on the comparison of outputs.