Schlumberger Technology Corporation

Chidi Eugene Nwafor

Balkrishna Gadiyar

Mehmet Parlar

Jushik Yun

Michael Huh

Valerie Gisele Helene Lafitte

Robert Krush

Julien Debard

Scott Malone

Kameron Lee Klauber

Nitin Verroju

Rasika Prabhu

Camilo Eduardo Zuniga Jurgensen

Farhan Ahmed Omer

A sand screen apparatus for use in a downhole operation for hydrocarbon recovery includes a non-metallic material and a mechanical retainer. The non-metallic material has a compressed state and an expanded state, and includes a base polymer, and one or a plurality of smart fillers dispersed with a polymeric matrix of the non-metallic material. The mechanical retainer compresses the non-metallic material in the compressed state. The one or the plurality of smart fillers react with the base polymer in the expanded state after exposure to a wellbore condition.

Non-metallic compliant sand control screen

A technique facilitates performance of a gravel packing operation and desired zonal isolation. An apparatus, e.g. a sliding sleeve shunt tube isolation valve, may be deployed downhole and configured to facilitate a gravel packing operation and zonal isolation. By way of example, the apparatus contains a conduit which in an open position allows the flow of gravel pack slurry and in a closed position creates a barrier. In the closed position, upper and lower portions of the conduit are isolated from one another. When the apparatus is coupled with a packer and sand screens, the apparatus serves to create complete zonal isolation in, for example, an open hole alternate path system.

Sliding sleeve shunt tube isolation valve system and methodology

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Chidi Eugene Nwafor