Ceramic Screens For Sand Control

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Ceramic screens for sand control.

The 3m ceramic sand screens offers a breakthrough sand and proppant flowback control technology for demanding conditions where erosion is a major challenge. Sand in place without unduly restricting productivity. Sand control methods may be classified as mechanical and chemical. The development of these systems is based on customer.

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. 1 0 140819 the new 3mtm ceramic sand screen offers a breakthrough sand control technology especially under demanding conditions where erosion is a major challenge. These materials are approximately 10 times harder than metallic materials.

Mechanical methods of sand control prevent sand production by stopping the formation with liners screens or gravel packs. From complete gravel pack systems to horizontal screen completion equipment halliburton has a system to meet your sand control needs. Ceramic sand screens were considered as a remedial sand control method because of their superior durability and resistance compared with metallic sand screens. N perils of sand production.

This is based on proven successful and unique technology with deployments globally including subsea deployments rigless and rig for both well remediation. Since erosion resistance is determined by material properties 3m ceramic sand screens use ceramic materials. State of the art sand screen systems generally consist of metals that offer limited resistance to erosion. At worst sand production threatens a well.

Pre job screen performance testing with sands from the fields under consideration for ess installation has proven very beneficial. Ceramic rings are manufactured to a desired slot requirement for the application s particle size distribution and stacked sequentially over the perforated base pipe. Halliburton sand control offers a complete line of proven downhole equipment configured into compatible systems for successful sand control completions. 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.

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. Voids can form behind the pipe causing formation subsi dence and casing collapse. The well may also fill with sand and cease flowing. 3m ceramic sand screen systems are engineered to simplify complex sand control methods.

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.