Sand control screen assembly and method for use of same

US8291972B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Ronald Glen Dusterhoft · Katy, US
• Kim Vance Thornton · Houston, US
• Carl Bismark Ferguson · La Porte, US
• Floyd R. Simonds · Richardson, US
• Tommy Frank Grigsby · Houma, US
• William Mark Richards · Flower Mound, US
• Luke William Holderman · Plano, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 23, 2010
• Grant date: Oct 23, 2012
• Expiry date: Jun 1, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC E): Fixed Constructions
• CPC primary: E21B43/08
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A sand control screen assembly (70) is operably positionable within a wellbore (84). The sand control screen assembly (70) includes a base pipe (72) having at least one opening and an internal flow path (74). A swellable material layer (76) is disposed exteriorly of the base pipe (72). A fluid collection subassembly (78) is disposed exteriorly of the swellable material layer (76). A drainage layer (82) is disposed exteriorly of the fluid collection subassembly (78) and the swellable material layer (76). In response to contact with an activating fluid, radial expansion of the swellable material layer (76) causes at least a portion of the fluid collection subassembly (78) and the drainage layer (82) to be displaced toward a surface of the wellbore (84).