Ceramic Screens For Sand Control

Screen and gravel pack.

Ceramic screens for sand control.

Since erosion resistance is determined by material properties 3m ceramic sand screens use ceramic materials. Larger formation sand grains are stopped and they in turn stop smaller formation sand grains. State of the art sand screen systems generally consist of metals that offer limited resistance to erosion. Sand control is a constant problem in soft or weak geological formations.

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. The 3m ceramic sand screens offers a breakthrough sand and proppant flowback control technology for demanding conditions where erosion is a major challenge. 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. 3m ceramic sand screen systems are engineered to simplify complex sand control methods. Mechanical methods of sand control prevent sand production by stopping the formation with liners screens or gravel packs. The well may also fill with sand and cease flowing.

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. 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. Voids can form behind the pipe causing formation subsi dence and casing collapse. At worst sand production threatens a well.

Sand control methods may be classified as mechanical and chemical. 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. The development of these systems is based on customer. 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. This is based on proven successful and unique technology with deployments globally including subsea deployments rigless and rig for both well remediation. 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.

Sand in place without unduly restricting productivity.