Metal Foam Sand Control Screen

Pei, Xiaohan; Shi, Bairu; Chen, Lin; Zheng, Lichen

doi:10.2118/165829-ms

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“…wire wrapped screen, slotted liner, prepacked liner, and sintered metal screen, under similar conditions, the bionic porous metal sand control screen improves the sand retention, and reduces the influent resistance by 16.6%. This device went through completed material and function tests in the lab and was successfully used in the Liaohe Oilfield in China [23].…”

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Prospects of Using Bionic Technologies in Oil/Gas Development

Liu

Shi

Zheng

et al. 2013

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Presently there are some challenging technological problems which severely restrain the progress of oil/gas development and production. To address these existing specific challenges, solutions enlightened and obtained from bionics have been applied. This paper reviews the applications of the most influential bionic technologies in the oil/gas development and production engineering, which include bionic non-smooth surface, shape memory polymer, bionic porous material, etc. Some successful field applications of these bionic technologies are described in detail, e.g. the application of the non-smooth theory in the solid expandable tubular technology to reduce friction resistance, and the utilization of bionic porous material as sand control screen to effectively improve sand retention and reduce the influent resistance. The vision of the potential bionic technologies, such as bionic inflow-control devices and nanorobots are also discussed.

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Section: Bionic Porous Materialsmentioning

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Prospects of Using Bionic Technologies in Oil/Gas Development

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“…Therefore, effective sand monitoring is a prerequisite for sustainable hydrocarbon production and is particularly important towards minimising operational risks and cost. Traditionally, sand production is minimised with a variety of classical control completion designs which include chemical consolidation [5]- [7], gravel packing [8], Frac Pack [9], wire wrapped/expandable screens [10], metal foam screen [11], selective/oriented perforations [12] or any combination of these techniques.…”

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Optimal design for real-time quantitative monitoring of sand in gas flowline using computational intelligence assisted design framework

Aminu

McGlinchey

Chen

2019

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

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Global demand for oil and gas is still increasing rapidly. The direct consequence of this is the increased operating pressure amid concerns over increasing sand production. According to the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), 70% of the world's hydrocarbon reserves are contained in reservoirs situated on unconsolidated formations. Given the reality of these formations, sand production will certainly be a problem of significant concern particularly during the later life of the fields when they become more 'mature'. However, to monitor sand and optimise its production for improved recovery and safety, life extension and economy of the fields and ensured reliability, the automatic detection and prediction of sand flow characteristic measurements; sand flow rate (SFR), sand concentration (SC), line pressure drop (PD), and gas velocity (GV), has become an important research topic of great interest. Despite this importance, discussion of the topic is still lacking in the literature. This paper proposes a novel and robust architecture of intelligent real-time sand flow characteristic measurement using an acoustic sensor and computational intelligence assisted design (CIAD) framework. It fully incorporates acoustic signal processing and analysis, prediction algorithms and optimisation algorithms in the design. Acoustic features based on acoustic signal processing techniques are extracted to reduce the dimensionality of the acoustic signals. A classical Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is used to model the non-linear relationships between the acoustic signal characteristics and the flow characteristics measurands. In addition, the ANN algorithm adapts its weights and biases using the Grey Wolf Optimiser (GWO) through minimisation of the cost function during the training phase. Preliminary results obtained on a laboratory test rig demonstrate that an acoustic sensor coupled with CIAD may provide simple and robust practical solution to the measurement problem of particle-laden gas flow characteristics in real-time.

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“…Meanwhile, conventional mechanical sand control techniques can also be divided into four groups: standard rig operation with retrievable packers, tubing-conveyed string, coiled tubing, and long zone/selective treatment. However, mechanical techniques can hardly solve fundamental problems and are usually costly and time-consuming. − …”

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Pentaerythritol Phosphate Melamine Salt, A New Aggregating Reagent for Oilfield Chemical Sand Control: Preparation, Properties, and Mechanism

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The production of sands in oil well production has long been a crucial and thorny issue, but many related technologies are either costly or ineffective. This study introduced a new aggregating reagent, pentaerythritol phosphate melamine salt (PPMS for short), for controlling this problem. PPMS was the reaction product of pentaerythritol, phosphoric acid, and melamine, and there was an amine and a phosphate ester (both are positively charged) in its chemical structure. It could effectively change the ζ potentials of solid particles and help them aggregate through hydrogen bonds and electrostatic interactions, thereby aggregated particles could settle down at the bottom of the pore holes without severe formation permeability damage, which plays a remarkable role in eliminating the co-production of formation particles with oil. PPMS exhibited an excellent performance when the concentration was 0.8 wt % under 60 °C at a neutral environment, at which PPMS (positively charged) not only can highly condense the double layer electric field but also can better react with clay particles (negatively charged) through adsorption and charge neutralization; thus the negative charge of clay surface could decrease to the minimum (almost 0 mV). At the same time, PPMS might have the potential to enhance oil recovery.

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Metal Foam Sand Control Screen

Cited by 4 publications

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Prospects of Using Bionic Technologies in Oil/Gas Development

Prospects of Using Bionic Technologies in Oil/Gas Development

Optimal design for real-time quantitative monitoring of sand in gas flowline using computational intelligence assisted design framework

Pentaerythritol Phosphate Melamine Salt, A New Aggregating Reagent for Oilfield Chemical Sand Control: Preparation, Properties, and Mechanism

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