Alternate Path Screens

Applications

Gravel-pack operations

Benefits and features

Maximizes gravel-packing
success by minimizing sand
control failures.
Increases production efficiency by
reducing sand control pumping
operations.
Minimizes screen plugging by
eliminating the need for premiumscreens in openhole horizontal
completions.

Effective and complete gravel

placement is critical to preventing
formation sand production and completion failure. By providing a redundant mechanism to place a gravel
pack around the screens inside the
wellbore, Alternate Path sand control
screens offer a rugged and flexible
technology for sand control treatment
design
Alternate Path screens can
lower the risk of gravel-pack
failure
minimize rig time spent on sand
control pumping operations

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increase wellbore operational reliability

increase completion longevity
maximize production and reserve
recovery from gravel-packed wells
and reservoirs.

Standard sand control screens are

the mechanical barrier in downhole
gravel-pack equipment that prevents
the gravel from entering the tubing
with the produced oil and gas. Gravelpack or STIMPAC jobs normally end
when a bridge forms in the casing or
openhole. A bridge forms where there
is a large amount of leak-off from the
wellbore either to the screen or to the
formation. Alternate Path technology
uses shunt tubes to provide alternate
slurry pathways that bypass the
bridge. As soon as the bridge forms,
the gravel-pack slurry flows through
the tubes to any void space below or
past the bridge. This allows the sand
control treatment to continue to its
normal conclusion of 100 percent perforation packing and annulus fill.
Several types of sand control
screens with Alternate Path technology are available.

Sand Face Completions Catalog

AllPAC/AllFRAC Screen Specifications

Pipe Size
(in.)

Screen OD
(in.)

238
278
312
4
412
5
512

2.710
3.220
3.850
4.350
4.860
5.360
5.870

AllPAC Tube Number and Orientation

1 Eccentric
(in.)

2 Eccentric
(in.)

3.730
3.92 at 72
4.230
4.39 at 62
4.790
4.90 at 62
5.340
5.45 at 62
5.850
5.91 at 45
6.340
6.39 at 42
6.850
6.89 at 39
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AllPAC: 2 in. 1 in. shunt tube

AllFRAC Tube Number and Orientation

3 or 4 Concentric
(in.)

1 Eccentric
(in.)

2 Eccentric
(in.)

4.440
4.940
5.560
6.050
6.550
7.040
7.550

4.230
4.75 at 73
4.720
5.02 at 67
5.180
5.43 at 61
5.800
5.96 at 55
6.350
6.49 at 50
6.800
7.02 at 47
7.300
7.39 at 45
3
1
AllFRAC: 4 in. 2 in. shunt tube

3 Concentric
(in.)
5.210
5.700
6.220
6.800
7.290
7.790
8.290

AllPAC

Screens use 90L/90L Vee-Wire for both the wire wrap and support rods.
Screens use 93H/90A wires. The 93H is a house wire used for the wire wrap and the 90A is a Vee-Wire used for the support rods.
washover/fishing instructions reference Tech Alert 98-006.

AllFRAC
For

AllPAC screen

AllFRAC screen
The AllFRAC screen is used in
STIMPAC completions with Alternate
Path technology. This screen features
one or more 1.500-in. 0.750-in.
[38.1-mm 19.0-mm] shunt tubes,
attached either concentrically or
eccentrically to the screen joint, with
38-in. exit nozzles at 6-ft [2-m] of the
larger shunt tubes, this screen is ideal
for use in higher rate, STIMPAC applications. Treatment rates can be up to
8 bbl/min per shunt tube depending
on screen and blank length.

Screens

AllFRAC

AllPAC
Pipe OD
1 in.

Pipe OD

Screen
shunt ring

Screen
shunt ring

1.5 in.
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The AllPAC screen is used in gravelpacked completions with Alternate

Path technology. This screen features
one or more 1.000-in. 0.500-in.
[25.4-mm 12.7-mm] shunt tubes
that are attached either concentrically
or eccentrically to the screen joint
with 14-in. exit nozzles at 6-ft [2-m]
intervals on each shunt tube. This type
screen is normally used in gravel packs
where formation fracturing is not a
priority. Treatment rate can be up to
2 bbl/min per shunt tube depending on
the screen, the blank length and the
type of gravel pack fluid.

Screen
OD

Screen
OD

0.5 in.

0.75 in.

Fishing OD
Joint
connector
OD

Joint
Fishing OD
connector
Joint
connector
OD

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Horizontal AllPAC
Packing tubes
with nozzles

Transport tubes

Transport
tube

Packing tubes
with nozzles
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Pipe size

Pipe size

Screen OD

Screen OD

Cover OD

Cover OD

Horizontal AllPAC screen

The horizontal AllPAC screen features one or more 1.50-in. 0.75-in.
[38.1-mm 19.0-mm] shunt transport
tubes attached eccentrically to the
screen joint. Each transport tube,
which runs the length of the screen
and connections joint-to-joint, feeds
one or more 1.000-in. 0.500-in.
[25.4-mm 12.7-mm] docking shunt
tubes. The docking tubes have nozzles
sized at either 14 in. or 38 in. depending
on the application requirements.

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Horizontal AllPAC screens also

include an outer shroud. The shroud
not only protects the gravel-pack
screen wire wrap and shunts during
run in, but it also centralizes the
assembly, making the use of openhole
centralizers redundant. This type
screen is normally recommended
for horizontal or highly deviated
openhole applications more than
250-ft [76-m] long.

Sand Face Completions Catalog

Horizontal Eccentric Openhole Screen Specifications

Pipe size (in.)

Screen OD (in.)

Product OD (in.)
(1 Large Tube
2 Small Packing Tubes)

Product OD (in.)
(2 Large Tubes
2 Small Packing Tubes)

238
278
312
4
412
5
512

2.710
3.220
3.850
4.350
4.860
5.360
5.870

4.740
5.040
5.550
6.040
6.530
7.020
7.530

5.150
5.510
5.980
6.320
6.660
7.140
7.620

Note: All sizes of horizontal eccentric openhole screen, use SLHT-S timed connections provided by Hunting Oilfield Services. A timed
connection allows for make up to a predetermined position, which is important for alignment of the transport tubes.
Minimum and maximum torque values as well as the maximum bend rating are based on the weight and grade of base pipe and can
be obtained from the appropriate Hunting data sheet.
Horizontal eccentric openhole screens use 90L/90L Vee-Wire for both the wire wrap and support rods.

90L Wire

0.105 in.

0.075 in.

0.089 in.

90L/90L

Screens

90A Wire

93H Wire
0.140 in.

0.087 in.

0.090 in.

0.060 in.

93H/90A

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