Ceramic Screens For Sand Control

The well may also fill with sand and cease flowing.

Ceramic screens for sand control.

These materials are approximately 10 times harder than metallic materials. Pre job screen performance testing with sands from the fields under consideration for ess installation has proven very beneficial. State of the art sand screen systems generally consist of metals that offer limited resistance to erosion. Sand in place without unduly restricting productivity.

N perils of sand production. The ceramic sand screens are a downhole sand control system with a contained modular design that can be easily run down the line and placed above or directly over perforations. Screen and gravel pack. Voids can form behind the pipe causing formation subsi dence and casing collapse.

Mechanical methods of sand control prevent sand production by stopping the formation with liners screens or gravel packs. Sand control methods may be classified as mechanical and chemical. Since erosion resistance is determined by material properties 3m ceramic sand screens use ceramic materials. Ceramic rings are manufactured to a desired slot requirement for the application s particle size distribution and stacked sequentially over the perforated base pipe.

The 3m ceramic sand screens offers a breakthrough sand and proppant flowback control technology for demanding conditions where erosion is a major challenge. 3m ceramic sand screen systems are designed to deliver high performance sand control in new wells workover and intervention applications both in unconsolidated formations and where proppant flowback poses a risk. 3m ceramic sand screen systems are engineered to simplify complex sand control methods. This is based on proven successful and unique technology with deployments globally including subsea deployments rigless and rig for both well remediation.

Thousands of feet downhole formation sand can choke oil or gas production and if it isn t filtered out this sand can damage equipment downstream. Sand control is a constant problem in soft or weak geological formations. Or the surface equipment may be catastroph ically damaged by erosion or plugging. Larger formation sand grains are stopped and they in turn stop smaller formation sand grains.

At worst sand production threatens a well. The development of these systems is based on customer. This and a very wide selection of filter apertures have allowed the best overall screen size to be selected for optimal mud clean up mud solids allowed through but sand held out. From complete gravel pack systems to horizontal screen completion equipment halliburton has a system to meet your sand control needs.

Remedial sand control with ceramic sand screens has successfully revived idle wells back to production at a lower total cost with oil gain beyond the initial target and a higher return.