Global demand for energy is driving the necessity to develop completion technology that optimizes production while maintaining a cost effective strategy. Operators rely on these technologies to push the boundaries to complete ultra-deep, high pressure and high temperature wells. These depths require proper fluid placement during drilling. After thetotal depth is reached, a conventional method to gain access to the reservoir in a cased-hole application is to use gun perforating systems or wireline platforms to perforate the casing. These systems generate costly losses in production time, and are followed by a clean-up run to prevent the debris from plugging the well or damaging other tool systems. In addition, the perforation of the drilling liner can cause unwanted skin damage to the formation that can impede production. High-strength disintegrating materials (HSDM) are an engineered metallic that provides an interventionless solution. HSDM combines the strength of metallic material with the unique quality of degradable composites by dissolving in brines or acids. This material enables the liner to be predrilled to a predesigned diameter, and filled with a high-strength disintegrating plug (HSDP). The HSDP provides a flow path for essential drilling fluids, and after displacing the drilling fluids to completion brines or acid, the HSDP dissolves. After removal of the HSDP, the operator gains full access to the formation without impeding production. The technology is combined with a new bonded bead matrix to provide reliable sand control while maintaining the HSDM as a fluid loss barrier. These two technologies form an extreme pressure frac screen (XPFS). With the bonded bead matrix protected by a HSDM disc, the working pressure rating is 15 ksi in burst and collapse. Upon removal of the HSDM disc, the bonded bead matrix is a sand control screen that prevents production of 85 to 95% of all particles larger than 53μm while maintaining high erosion resistance and compatibility with corrosive fluids such as hydrochloric acid. This paper presents the pressure rating dependability and sand control capabilities of a liner that provides operators with an interventionless ability to reliably complete ultra-deep, high-pressure and high-temperature wells.

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