Ceramic Screens For Sand Control

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.

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 control methods may be classified as mechanical and chemical. 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.

Voids can form behind the pipe causing formation subsi dence and casing collapse. From complete gravel pack systems to horizontal screen completion equipment halliburton has a system to meet your sand control needs. Sand control is a constant problem in soft or weak geological formations. Ceramic rings are manufactured to a desired slot requirement for the application s particle size distribution and stacked sequentially over the perforated base pipe.

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. State of the art sand screen systems generally consist of metals that offer limited resistance to erosion. At worst sand production threatens a well. Ceramic sand screens were considered as a remedial sand control method because of their superior durability and resistance compared with metallic sand screens.

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. Since erosion resistance is determined by material properties 3m ceramic sand screens use ceramic materials. N perils of sand production. Larger formation sand grains are stopped and they in turn stop smaller formation sand grains.

Mechanical methods of sand control prevent sand production by stopping the formation with liners screens or gravel packs. The development of these systems is based on customer. 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. This is based on proven successful and unique technology with deployments globally including subsea deployments rigless and rig for both well remediation.

Sand in place without unduly restricting productivity. Or the surface equipment may be catastroph ically damaged by erosion or plugging. Screen and gravel pack. 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.