This document provides procedures for testing well cements and cement blends for use in the petroleum and natural gas industries in a deepwater environment, or areas with a low seafloor temperature, or areas where low well temperatures exist.

This document supplements API RP 10B-3, 2^nd edition (2016), the requirements of which are applicable with the exceptions specified in this document.

This document excludes the mitigation of shallow water flow in deepwater wells.

NOTE This is addressed in API RP 65.