Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Gravel packing screen with inflow control device and bypass
- Patent Title (中): 砾石包装筛,带流入控制装置和旁路
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Application No.: US11407848Application Date: 2006-04-20
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Publication No.: US07708068B2Publication Date: 2010-05-04
- Inventor: Travis T. Hailey, Jr.
- Applicant: Travis T. Hailey, Jr.
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston
- Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston
- Agent Marlin R. Smith
- Main IPC: E21B43/04
- IPC: E21B43/04 ; E21B43/08

Abstract:
A gravel packing screen with an inflow control device and a bypass. A well screen includes a flow restricting device for restricting inward flow through the screen, and a bypass device for increasing a proportion of the inward flow which passes through the flow restricting device, the bypass device including a material which swells in response to contact between the material and fluid in a well. A method of gravel packing a well includes installing a screen in the well, the screen including a flow restricting device which restricts flow through the screen, and a bypass device for selectively permitting relatively unrestricted flow through the screen; and actuating the bypass device in response to contact between a material of the bypass device and fluid in the well, thereby increasingly restricting flow through the screen. Flow through the flow restricting device and flow through the bypass device may be in parallel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20070246213A1 Gravel packing screen with inflow control device and bypass Public/Granted day:2007-10-25
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