Screens and ICDs

Largest portfolio in the industry

Industry-leading design and manufacturing
Long, horizontal, openhole completions in
unconsolidated reservoirs present complex
challenges, such as managing low fracture
gradients, maintaining uniform production,
and eliminating water coning.
To address these challenges and ensure optimal sand control,
Schlumberger offers an all-encompassing screen strategy that
includes integrated, cross-disciplinary expertise, fit-for-purpose
designs, industry-leading manufacturing processes, and a broad
range of screen hardware.
Whether your goal is to construct a stand-alone screen completion
or a gravel pack, or you need the added benefit of inflow or injection
control devices, the Schlumberger offering provides the ideal solution.
Integrated approach, cross-disciplinary expertise
Our approach to sand control screens involves a multidisciplinary
approach with integrated processes that combine reservoir engineer-
ing, completion design, wellbore preparation, and filtercake removal.
This approach helps ensure a highly productive, trouble-free well.
Industry-leading design and manufacturing
Schlumberger quality management systems ensure that we continually
improve the flexibility, efficiency, and quality of our facilities. Our
progressive manufacturing processes and proprietary manufacturing
techniques allow us to produce the most robust line of fit-for-purpose
screens.
Broadest range of screen technology
Schlumberger offers the industry’s broadest range of sand screen
technology for both production and injection well applications, giving
you the versatility to complete even the most challenging types of
intervals for optimal production.

Direct wire-wrapped screens—robust and precise
LineSlot*, LiteSlot*, and Dominator* direct wire-wrapped sand
screens are built to withstand high mechanical forces without affect-
ing slot openings. This means that they can be installed the same way
as a regular liner, with no special handling procedures or running
precautions.
Above: The ResGauge* slot-opening measurement system is a pho-
tometric QC device for direct-wrapped sand screens. It measures
every slot opening on a screen joint.
Below: The Schlumberger wire-wrapping machine uses proprietary
manufacturing technology that is key to delivering the strongest,
most precise sand screen available in the industry.

This unprecedented level of robustness is achieved through the

unique Schlumberger manufacturing process. Screen components
are welded together, but there is no welding between the screen and
basepipe. This feature, combined with a unique perforation pattern,
ensures that the screen basepipe is not weakened during manufactur-
ing. In fact, extensive testing has shown that the tension, compres-
sion, and torque ratings of the screen are the same as those of the
basepipe.

A successful completion also requires slot consistency to maintain full

sand control. Our proprietary manufacturing process uses engineered
wrapping wire along with a unique QC system that measures the
accuracy of every single slot. When a direct wire-wrapped screen
arrives on your site, you can be sure it will perform as designed.

Wire-wrapped screens—simple, durable, and cost-effective

Extractor* wire-wrapped screens allow complete customization
to provide efficient sand control across a full range of specific well
applications. These screens feature an exclusive slip-ring design that
isolates the wire-wrapped jacket from tension, compression, and
torque loads. The assembly can be outfitted with a protective shroud
for stand-alone applications. These features provide outstanding
durability and erosion resistance for a screen that cannot be plugged
by fines or produced solids.
Screens and ICDs—the widest offering in the industry
LineSlot direct wire-wrapped sand screens
The MeshRite sand screen is constructed with a patented compressed mesh-
filter medium. Its continuous stainless steel fibers are rolled around the basepipe
at a controlled density and compression ratio to form a screen that has one of
the highest areas open to flow in the industry.
Endure premium sintered mesh screens
Premium sintered mesh screens—durable in harsh environments
Severe openhole production environments call for a screen that can de-
liver reliable sand-control performance long term. Assure™ and Endure*
premium sintered mesh screens are designed to do just that, in both
stand-alone and gravel-pack applications.
Multiple layers of woven-wire mesh are sintered to form a resilient
filter that ensures weld integrity and mechanical stability. This enables
our premium sintered mesh screens to maintain their strength during
installation without altering the filter pore openings. The screens are
engineered to optimize the number of basepipe perforations, and the
inner drainage layer and high-flow shroud evenly distribute the flow rates
across the full area of mesh. Thus, production and injection processes
are able to achieve the results expected from the original completion
design—and the hardware holds up to the harsh downhole conditions,
ensuring optimal results for an extended period.
Specialty screens—rugged, flexible, and robust
Completion parameters vary greatly, which is why the Schlumberger line
of specialty screens offers sand screens for more specific applications—
allowing Schlumberger to design the solution most appropriate to your well.
MeshRite screens
MeshRite* stainless steel compressed mesh screens provide reliable
sand control in the harshest downhole conditions. The result of
extensive research and field testing, MeshRite screens are proven to
work with all sand control techniques, including stand-alone, openhole
gravel packs, through-tubing in oil and gas reservoirs, and heavy oil
ResFlow inflow control device
Broadest range of
sand screen technology
in the industry

Direct wire-wrapped
screens
LineSlot, LiteSlot,
and Dominator

Wire-wrapped screens
Extractor
ResInject injection control device

Premium sintered
applications. These rugged screens can be handled on the rig as though mesh screens
they are tubing or casing. They produce very low pressure drops and a
tortuous flow path to dissipate energy, mitigate screen erosion, and extend
Assure and Endure
completion life.

FacsRite screens
FacsRite™ screens are robust screens that resist damage even under severe
deployment and operating loads. These screens have significantly more Specialty screens
strength than typical screens to resist deformation and screen damage under MeshRite and FacsRite
load forces. The FacsRite screen’s open flow area is almost double that of
a typical slotted liner. The FacsRite screen also offers the best ID/OD ratio
for flexibility in well design and for applications in which the screen OD is a
critical factor.

OptiPac Alternate Path screens—ensuring complete packs

Our exclusively licensed OptiPac* Alternate Path† screens use shunt tubes with
nozzles to create an alternate flow path that allows slurry to bypass bridges
Alternate Path screens
and fill the voids below them. Use of this technology helps ensure a complete OptiPac
annular pack, thereby eliminating screenouts, reducing the risks of screen
and gravel-pack failure and deterioration in well productivity, and increasing
completion longevity and reliability.

Inflow and injection control devices—designed to optimize recovery

Uniform flow rates are difficult to maintain in formations with variable
permeability, yet they are critical to the success of both production and Inflow & injection
injection operations. Schlumberger inflow and injection control devices (ICDs)
give you the control you need.
control devices
ResFlow, ResInject,
Designed to be used in sync with all Schlumberger screens, these devices
balance flow rates across the completion for the entire length of the interval. and others
Precise design—from engineering to wellsite implementation

They dramatically reduce the effect of water and gas breakthroughs and
optimize injection rates across the full wellbore face despite permeability
variations and thief zones. Either type of ICD, when combined with the
strength and accuracy of Schlumberger screens, gives you an intelligently
integrated flow management system that regulates itself without the need
for downhole telemetry.

We have developed a unique method for designing inflow control device

completions. From basic well and reservoir data, an initial nozzle design is
determined. With a numerical and dynamic simulator, the nozzle design is
evaluated and refined. In an iterative process between the ICD simulator
and a full field dynamic reservoir simulator—Eclipse* reservoir simulation
software—the completion is optimized for long-term well efficiency.

Engineered interfaces—from design to wellsite implementation

Also key in the Schlumberger openhole sand screen design is a
comprehensive understanding of the interactions between screens
and drilling fluids and the subsequent tailoring of the design to fit well
conditions. Screens are selected and sized on the basis of formation sand
characteristics and completion type. Simulations allow reservoir drilling
fluid to be selected and optimized to protect the reservoir and well and
to maximize production through the screens. Fluid condition is monitored Sand Advisor software—designed for precise screen selection
and adjusted as needed at the wellsite prior to screen installation. Schlumberger Sand Advisor software for screen and gravel selection in
Filtercake removal can be optimized because of our wide range of openhole applications analyzes formation particle-size distribution and
filtercake breaker options that are the result of extensive lab testing. aids in gravel and screen sizing and selection. This software is based on
Engineers on the wellsite ensure that the wellbore and fluid condition are our extensive database of actual particle-size distribution and laboratory
suitable for a successful installation of the screens. results of sand retention tests.

Comprehensive approach
to sand control
Engineered Interfaces—From Design to Wellsite Implementation Schlumberger tackles openhole
environments with an engineering-
driven, total-system approach that
Screen Selection features the tools, fluid chemistries,
Sand Advisor software assists in the selection technologies, software, services,
of screen type and size on the basis
of formation sand characteristics and people needed to extend the life
and completion type. of long, horizontal intervals and to
Reservoir Drilling optimize production.
Fluid Selection
Simulations enable reservoir drilling fluid to With the Transcend* family of
be selected that will best protect the reservoir
and well and facilitate production services and products, we can
Wellbore Cleanup through the screens.
help you design your sand control
Filtercake cleanup and completion installation
minimize the potential for damage to treatments with precision, mitigate
the reservoir and the completion. risks up front, preserve the integrity
of your completion, and optimize
Wellbore Preparation reservoir recovery.
Fluid condition is monitored and optimized
at the wellsite prior to screen installation.

Engineering the interface between the formation, the filtercake, the reservoir drilling fluid, and the screen is key to the success
of stand-alone screen completions.
In strategically placed facilities
around the world, we use proprietary
manufacturing techniques to produce
the most robust line of fit-for-purpose
screens and ICDs and to quickly deliver
them wherever needed.
Screens and ICDs
The Transcend family of sand
management services for openhole
completions is supported by
Schlumberger dedicated experts
worldwide who understand the
countries, regions, and formations
where your projects are located.

With our extensive portfolio

of services and products and
multidisciplinary industry expertise,
we will help you tailor your openhole
completions to achieve effective
sand control for the life of your well
and reservoir and to maximize the
performance of your completion.

Contact Schlumberger today.

Transcend
Openhole sand management services
■■ Screens and ICDs
■■ AquaPac integrated water-packing system
■■ OptiPac Alternate Path gravel-packing system
■■ IntelliPac distributed temperature measurements in real time

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