Patent ID: 6082451
Filing Date: 2000-07-04
Classification: E21B

Abstract:
A method for introducing wellbore cement into a wellbore shoe joint, the shoe joint having a hollow tubular body, the shoe joint containing an amount of wellbore fluid, the shoe joint disposed in a wellbore cementing system between a float shoe beneath the shoe joint, the float shoe having at least one float valve therein, and a hollow tubular member above the shoe joint, the hollow tubular member comprising a lower part of a wellbore tubular string of a plurality of tubular members extending from an earth surface down into a wellbore, the method comprisingmoving a wellbore plug into the hollow tubular body of the shoe joint,moving the plug within the shoe joint to push wellbore fluid from the shoe joint, said fluid flowing to the float shoe, andflowing wellbore cement into the hollow tubular body of the shoe joint.