Baker Hughes Corporation

Baker Hughes, a Ge Compnay, LLC

Steve M Winnon

Zhiyue Xu

Jason J Barnard

Chance E Mann

Shay Hetz

Chance Ethan Mann

A filtering medium for removal of solids from a fluid. A solid filtering matrix contains fluid passages that are made up of a plurality of chambers with connecting channels. The chambers have a greater diameter than the connecting channels.

Deposited material sand control media

An embodiment of a method of manufacturing a downhole fluid control apparatus includes generating, using a processor, a design for a metallic porous structure configured to be deployed with a fluid control device, the fluid control device configured to be disposed in a borehole in an earth formation and inhibit the flow of particulates between a flow conduit and at least one of the borehole and the formation. The method also includes applying an energy beam from an energy source to a granular metallic material, and additively forming the metallic porous structure based on the design as a single structure having a distribution of pores therein.

Porous structure for downhole fluid control applications and method of manufacture

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Conroe, TX, United States of America

Steve M Winnon