ExxonMobil Awards Alternate Path Completion License to Delta Screens
November 20 2014 - 4:53PM
Business Wire
- Alternate Path® technique ensures full
gravel pack in cased and openhole completion wells
- Improves long-term reliability of sand
control and reduces workovers
- Developed and licensed by ExxonMobil
Upstream Research Company
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company has awarded Delta Screens
& Filtration LLC a limited international license to
ExxonMobil’s Alternate Path technology patent portfolio for gravel
packing cased and openhole completion wells.
Alternate Path is a patented technology developed by ExxonMobil
to improve the reliability of wells completed in sand-prone
reservoirs. The technology provides alternate flow paths called
shunt tubes in the downhole tool used for packing gravel in the
producing sections of a well. The shunt tubes enable the Alternate
Path packing operation to continue when sand prematurely blocks the
well annulus, which would stop a conventional packing operation.
The shunt tubes divert the gravel slurry around sand blockages and
through distributed portholes to fill voids in the annulus until a
complete pack is in place.
“Alternate Path technology is one of several sand control
completion technologies developed by ExxonMobil to improve
reliability of sand-prone production wells,” said Sara N. Ortwein,
president of ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company. “When the
geology and the economics of a development call for openhole
completions, Alternate Path technology is the technique preferred
by ExxonMobil.”
The Alternate Path license allows Delta Screens to produce and
deploy Alternate Path technology for ExxonMobil affiliates around
the world and for ventures in which ExxonMobil participates.
“Alternate Path technology gives us a more reliable way to
gravel pack wells where we need sand control,” said Delta Screens
President, Richard Grifno. “Alternate Path is field proven and
we’re very pleased to be approved as a licensee for
ExxonMobil.”
About ExxonMobil Upstream Research
Company
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company is the Upstream research
affiliate of Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM), a leading global
oil, natural gas, and petrochemicals company with operations in
nearly 200 countries and territories worldwide. ExxonMobil Upstream
Research Company is charged with developing an industry-leading
array of proprietary technologies that support the Corporation's
continued leadership position in exploration, development,
production and gas commercialization.
About Delta Screen & Filtration
LLC
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Delta Screen & Filtration,
LLC (dba Delta Screens) is a world-leading manufacturer of
sand control screens for oil and gas production. Delta Screens
offers a comprehensive selection of custom and
standardized screens to reliably address virtually any sand control
challenge.
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future results, including the performance of new technology, could
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