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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2022
Applicant:
Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran, SA;
Inventors:
Jinjiang Xiao, Dhahran, SA;
Chidirim Enoch Ejim, Dhahran, SA;
Assignee:
SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, Dhahran, SA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 43/34 (2006.01); E21B 43/12 (2006.01); E21B 43/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 43/35 (2020.05); E21B 43/121 (2013.01); E21B 43/38 (2013.01);
Abstract
A solids collector is disposed at an end of a tubing in a wellbore. At a top of the solids collector, a reservoir fluid stream carrying solids is separated into a solids-liquid stream that is reversed into an annulus in the solids collector and a gas stream that continues to move uphole in the wellbore. At an end of the annulus in the solids collector, the solids-liquid stream is separated into a liquid stream that moves up the tubing and solids that are accumulated in the solids collector.