3M Ceramic Sand Screens have saved PHM up to 50% cost over SCON solution. (Image source: Adobe Stock)

Material science and technology provider, 3M, has released via Offshore Network a case study illustrating how an Indonesian oil and gas corporation Pertamina Hulu Mahakam (PHM) deployed Ceramic Sand Screen to cost effectively unlock marginal field assets 

While coiled tubing-deployed chemical sand consolidation (SCON) or slickline deployed through tubing metallic screens are the conventional approaches to sand control at PHM, they are limited by its operating envelope and technical constraints. There is a need identified to unlock production with a change in filter media material.

3M Ceramic Sand Screens have saved PHM up to 50% cost over SCON solution and delivered 200% higher productivity than through tubing metallic screen solution by integrating 3M advanced ceramic materials into a sand screen assembly.

Assets like in Tunu and Peciko, reservoirs are marginal and multi-layered sand series which are highly unconsolidated and poorly sorted sands with an average of 20 to 30% porosity. 3M Ceramic Sand Screen have been initially trialed in these conditions and enabled in optimising sand control completions.

Within a span of 4 years, more than 80 wells in various fields of PHM have been successfully replicated.

Download the case study to learn about:

*How 3M solution has impacted to unlock production from marginal assets

*How material change enables optimised and cost-effective sand control completions

*How 3M material science empowers and contributes to their energy customers to develop improved, safer and more sustainable solutions

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