A design optimized coated sand screen was developed that increases the erosion resistance of conventional sand screens. Computational fluid dynamics and laboratory testing were conducted to determine the design optimizations and a coating was developed through rigorous testing. The screen has now been deployed and adopted with success.

Keywords:
sand control, mesh, weld, tolerance, coating, media, basepipe, erosion resistant sand screen, screen selection, erosion resistance
Subjects:
Screen selection, Sand Control, Completion Operations
Copyright 2022, Society of Petroleum Engineers DOI 10.2118/210128-MS
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