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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2015
Baker Hughes Incorporated, Houston, TX (US);
Christophe A. Malbrel, Houston, TX (US);
Nervy E. Faria, Houston, TX (US);
Steve Rosenblatt, Houston, TX (US);
Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A gravel pack of screen sections separated by blank pipe is accomplished with sleeves around the blank sections that have a smaller run in dimension to allow the gravel to get past the sleeves during the gravel packing. When the gravel packing is complete the sleeves swell or otherwise enlarge to fill the voids where no or insufficient amount of gravel has been deposited. The presence of the enlarged sleeves prevents settling or shifting of the gravel pack away from the screens because voids that would otherwise have been there are filled with the enlarged sleeves. This is more of an issue in wells that are closer to vertical than horizontal.