Current State of the Premium Screen Industry: Buyer Beware—Methodical Testing and Qualification Shows You Don't Always Get What You Paid For

摘要

Within the sand control technology sector today, there are many sand exclusion screen options available for use in completion design. Sand control screens have steadily improved with the introduction and enhancement of metal sand retention media based sand exclusion products in the early 1990’s. However, recent catastrophic sand exclusion failures have led some operators and independent laboratories to perform additional testing and quality control checks on sand exclusion products to ensure full life cycle field value.