AquaPac Openhole Gravel-Pack Service | OHGP | SLB
Improve openhole gravel packs with an integrated completion approach. AquaPac openhole gravel-pack service uses brine to carry and place gravel around preinstalled screens. It successfully addresses the challenges presented by many highly deviated openhole wells: low fracture gradients, reactive shales, and unstable boreholes.
Sand Advisor Screen and Gravel-Pack Planning Software | SLB
Optimize screen and gravel selection. Sand Advisor screen and gravel-pack planning software supports optimal screen and gravel selection in openhole applications by analyzing the formation particle-size distributions. It is based on numerical and analytical modeling and the extensive database of results from laboratory sand-retention tests ...
Sand Control Software | Gravel Pack, Frac Pack | SLB
ICD Advisor. Inflow control device planning software. Proprietary software is used to optimize design, execution, and evaluation of Schlumberger gravel packs, frac packs, and other sand control treatments.
Gravel Packs & Sand Screens | Well Completions for …
Sand control technologies prevent migration of reservoir sand and fines into a wellbore, stabilizes the reservoir, and enhances productivity. Simplify your completion by …
sand control | Energy Glossary
n. [Well Completions] The installation of equipment or application of techniques to prevent migration of reservoir sand into the wellbore or near-wellbore area. In weak formations, …
Alternate Path Sand Screens | Gravel Pack | SLB
Alternate Path Sand Screens. Shunt tube technology to ensure full annular gravel packs and frac packs. Alternate Path systems use shunt tubes and nozzles to create an alternate flow path that allows slurry to bypass bridges and fill in voids that can occur when gravel and frac packing. Options are available for both cased hole and openhole wells.
Cased Hole & Openhole Gravel Packs & Packers | Sand Control
Schlumberger provides gravel pack solutions for well completions. Conventional multi-trip systems to single-trip sand control solutions for added efficiency.
Sand Control: Why and How?
Transcription of Sand Control: Why and How? - Schlumberger. 1 Unconsolidated sandstone reservoirs withpermeability of to 8 darcies are mostsusceptible to sand production, which maystart during first flow or later when reservoirpressure has fallen or water breaks production strikes with varyingdegrees of severity, not all of which …
Sand Screen with Check-Valve Inflow Control Devices | SLB
This paper describes a wash‐pipe‐free solution for screen installation using a check‐valve inflow control device (CV‐ICD). ICD screens are commonly used to delay/restrict the influx of unwanted fluids such as gas or water. The wash‐pipe‐free solution integrates a check valve with the ICD to prevent outflow through the screen during ...
Dependable Sand Control Screens | Sovonex
Owing to our large selection of well screens and expertise in sand control, we can help you choose the ideal screen that maximizes sand retention while minimizing flow impairment. Better priced than suppliers like Weatherford or Schlumberger, Sovonex™ sand screens not only keep sand production under control but also considerably lower your ...
Direct-Wire-Wrapped Sand Screens | SLB
Schlumberger direct-wire-wrapped sand screens are made for sand control with a wire jacket shrink-wrapped directly to the basepipe, maximizing strength. En. Contact; Software Support; ... (PSD) are used for various purposes in sand control: decision between various sand control techniques, sizing of the filter media (sand screens and/or gravel ...
Sand control
Sand control refers to managing/minimizing sand and fine production during petroleum production. Sand and fine produced with oil and gas can cause erosion and wear of production facilities/equipments, resulting in production downtime, expensive repairs, and potentially loss of containment (serious safety risk).
Sand Consolidation Fluids | SLB
Approximately 50%. Curing and shut-in time. 6 hours. 2.5–5 days at 131 degF [55 degC] Working time. Not applicable. Varies based on activator type, concentration, and temperature; 1–8 hours. Sand consolidation and conglomeration technologies prolong the life of the well and prevent screen and completion damage.
Sand Control
Our sand control services begin with an in-depth analysis of the reservoir and well conditions. Based on your unique needs, we then provide specialized surface and downhole equipment, including gravel pack packers and screens, surface pumping equipment, fluid systems, and filtration systems, all supported by completion service so you can ...
Efficient Sand Control Leads to Better Production | SLB
Results: Provided nearly efficient gravel packs and sand control. Increased production rates with the application of a higher well drawdown pressure. Efficient sand control leads to better production. Schlumberger Data & Consulting Services (DCS) was called on to perform a full sand management study to assess the …
Prepacked Sand Screens | Gravel Pack Alternative | SLB
Add a layer of protection against erosion. When conventional gravel packing is not feasible or economical, our prepacked sand screens provide a cost-effective sand control alternative with added erosion protection. They can be used used as stand-alone screens without a gravel pack, but their traditional use has been in long, horizontal openhole ...
MeshRite Stainless Steel Wool Screens | SLB
They have 40% open flow area—whereas other screens typically have a maximum of 30%—and greater than 3,000-D air permeability. The unique 3D pore structure has high resistance to plugging. MeshRite screens have angular pores ranging in size from 15 to 600 um, which retain harmful solids and minimize the risk of erosion.
Reduce Formation Damage in Sand Control Completions | SLB
Apply new technique for sand control completions. Completion fluid losses cost time and money, an estimated USD 200,000 per well in the GOM. An operator approached Schlumberger for techniques to reduce fluid loss, prevent formation damage, and save costs in treating produced fluid in wells requiring gravel packs for sand control.
Sand Screens | Sand Control in Oil & Gas Well Completions | SLB
Premium Mesh Sand Screens. Distribute flow evenly and reduce plugging. Our premium sintered mesh screens have a single layer or multiple layers of woven wire mesh, sometimes sintered, forming a resilient filter and providing weld integrity and mechanical stability. Mesh screens maintain their strength during installation without altering the ...
Sand Screens and Inflow Control Devices (ICDs) | SLB
Versatile, robust, reliable sand screen technology. SLB offers the industry's broadest range of sand screens and inflow control devices (ICDs) for production and injector wells—for …
Packer Systems and Liner Hangers
Make decisions easier with API- and ISO-certified production packers. Our expanding portfolio of production packers and plugs spans all major casing sizes, and every size is validated to API Spec 11D1 and ISO 14310 standards—an industry first. Single-piece mandrels and configurable designs enhance operational reliability and efficiency.
Jeremie Poizat
Technology Manager - Sand Control SLB Aug 2018 - Jul 2021 3 years. Houston, Texas, United States Sand Control Product Champion Schlumberger Aug 2012 - Aug 2018 6 ...
OptiPac Openhole Alternate Path Gravel Packing | SLB
OSMP OptiPac service mechanical packers are equipped with Alternate Path shunt tubes for multizone openhole gravel packing. The fast-setting packer eliminates the delays associated with waiting on swell packers to set and the risk of pumping gravel before swelling is complete, which can cause the gravel to enter the packer element–wellbore ...
Specialty Screens | SLB
Contact us Related Resources. Schlumberger specialty screens address the emerging unconventional sand control applications, where conventional gravel packs or screens or both are insufficient, such as heavy oil applications in thermal or nonthermal environments. These screens meet rigid quality control standards to ensure maximum screen ...
MZ-Xpress Single-Trip Multizone Gravel Pack, Frac Pack | SLB
Improve sand control efficiency and economics with fewer trips. The MZ-Xpress cased hole single-trip multizone gravel- and frac-pack service enhances efficiency by gravel or frac packing multiple zones in one trip. As with all our gravel- and frac-pack services, our integrated system approach includes downhole tools, surface pumping and ...
SandSet Sand Consolidation Technology | SLB
New or remedial wells. SandSet sand consolidation technology chemically consolidates loose formation sand to prevent sand production. In hydraulically fractured wells, SandSet technology prevents proppant flowback. Treated wells may be returned to production within one day after treatment. Treatment can be pumped down tubing into the formation ...
Cased Hole & Openhole Gravel Packs & Packers
Manage primary and remedial sand control costs with treatments that keep sand out of the well without screens. Schlumberger provides gravel pack solutions for well completions. …
Sand production: A smart control framework for risk mitigation
As shown in Fig. 1, sand control technology is installed by the company, Schlumberger in over 30 countries globally. Sand management is an approach of operating when traditional tools of sand control are not typically applied, and successful production rate is achieved through an appropriate monitoring and control process of …
Sand control techniques evolve to meet deepwater economics
Schlumberger's Sand Management Services and the Wellbore Productivity team at M-I SWACO, a Schlumberger company, work together to create the …