Ceramic Screens For Sand Control

The development of these systems is based on customer.

Ceramic screens for sand control. State of the art sand screen systems generally consist of metals that offer limited resistance to erosion. 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. These materials are approximately 10 times harder than metallic materials.

From complete gravel pack systems to horizontal screen completion equipment halliburton has a system to meet your sand control needs. Mechanical methods of sand control prevent sand production by stopping the formation with liners screens or gravel packs. Ceramic rings are manufactured to a desired slot requirement for the application s particle size distribution and stacked sequentially over the perforated base pipe. 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.

Screen and gravel pack. 3m ceramic sand screen systems are engineered to simplify complex sand control methods. 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.

This is based on proven successful and unique technology with deployments globally including subsea deployments rigless and rig for both well remediation. 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. Sand control is a constant problem in soft or weak geological formations.

Pre job screen performance testing with sands from the fields under consideration for ess installation has proven very beneficial. Voids can form behind the pipe causing formation subsi dence and casing collapse. 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. 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.

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. Sand in place without unduly restricting productivity. 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. 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.