Standalone Sand Control Failure: The Role of Wellbore and Near Wellbore Hydro-Thermo-Chemical Phenomenon on the Plugging and the Flow Performance Impairments of the Standalone Sand Screen

摘要

Although several workflows have been developed over the years for the design of the optimal sand control solutions in thermal applications, numerous sand control failures still occur every year. This paper aims at assessing the failure mechanism of different sand control techniques and the factors contributing to the failure by analyzing different failed sand control screen samples recovered from thermal and non-thermal wells.