3M™ Ceramic Sand Screens

  • 3M ID B49000158

Helps optimize customer's production potential and potentially extend their asset lifecycle management

Globally field-proven downhole tool that allows for efficient sand control in a wide range of reservoir conditions

Helps maximize productivity by potentially reducing operation risk while also providing sand-free production

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  • Helps optimize customer's production potential and potentially extend their asset lifecycle management
  • Globally field-proven downhole tool that allows for efficient sand control in a wide range of reservoir conditions
  • Helps maximize productivity by potentially reducing operation risk while also providing sand-free production
  • Compatible with other well equipment to help simplify well condition
  • Helps prevent proppant flowback
  • Can be applied as a stand-alone screen beyond traditional boundary conditions
  • Resists hotspotting during fracturing, chemical stimulations or heterogenous reservoirs
  • pH-Neutral material resists corrosion even during workovers and stimulations
  • Our 3M ceramic material is 10x harder than metal, offering excellent erosion resistance

3M™ Ceramic Sand Screen systems are comprised of a flexible stack of ceramic rings assembled on a pre-perforated base pipe and secured by endcaps with an external metallic shroud. Technical ceramic material helps customers achieve excellent performance in downhole settings, offering erosion and corrosion resistance that helps customers solve common failures of metallic filter media mechanisms.

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    Enhanced Asset Lifecycle Management
  • Erosion Resistance icon of an arrow bouncing off a flat surface.
    Erosion Resistance
  • Increased Productivity icon of an arrow increasingly moving upward on a bar chart showing growth.4
    Increased Productivity
  • Operational simplicity icon of two gears.
    Operational Simplicity
Silicon carbide used in 3M sand screens
A proven, powerful material for effective sand control

3M has over 100 years of experience working with ceramic materials. Time and expertise have delivered a sand screen material that delivers exceptional resistance to erosion, corrosion, wear and temperatures up to 1800ºC.

  • Effective sand control in virtually any system

    Whether the wellbore is cased or not, 3M sand screens offer effective and durable protection from flowback that allows the well to remain productive much longer than other screen materials.

    This globally proven downhole sand control tool has been successfully applied in cased hole, open hole well completions for green, brown, and marginal fields as new wells, remediation or maintenance of downhole sand control scope for reservoir sands and proppant flowback applications.

  • Open hole stand alone screen for well drilling diagram and cased hole premium stand alone screen diagram
  • A complete sand screen system
    A complete sand control system

    3M™ Ceramic Sand Screen Systems consist of:
     

    • Extremely durable ceramic filter rings
    • Pre-perforated base pipe
    • Endcaps
    • External metallic shroud
  • Zoomed in 3M sand screen system showing slot configuration.
    Performance in a broad range of conditions

    Material features V-shaped or keystone slot openings for specific well applications.

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