From thru-tubing remediation to high-rate, erosion-prone producers, the SLB sand control portfolio incorporates proven screen technologies for every application. Whatever your well environment and completion design (gravel-packed or stand-alone screens), we have the right filter media—ceramic or alloy discs, mesh, wire wrap, or stainless steel wool—to ensure longevity and productivity. We use proprietary manufacturing techniques to produce the most robust, fit-for-purpose screens in strategically placed facilities worldwide.
The challenge
Sand control remains one of the most critical—and complex—elements of completion design. From fines migration and formation collapse to screen erosion and plugging, a multitude of events can compromise production rates, damage downhole and surface equipment, and trigger costly interventions.
Completion engineers must balance reservoir characteristics, flow regimes, deployment constraints, and filtration performance—often without full certainty on particle-size distribution or long-term drawdown conditions. No single screen design fits every scenario.
Our solution
We provide a comprehensive portfolio of engineered sand control screens—each developed for specific flow dynamics, filtration precision, and mechanical strength requirements. Whether your wells are gravel packed or completed with stand-alone screens, vertical or horizontal, high-rate or remedial, our technologies are designed to retain formation solids, minimize flow impairment, and extend well life. From stainless steel wool for unknown particle-size distributions to dual-filter ceramic discs for extreme velocities, a wide range of filter media ensure flow assurance, reliability, and operational fit.
High-strength, corrosion- and erosion-resistant materials withstand dynamic conditions, minimizing failures and extending screen life and sand-free production.
Whether your goal is ultrahigh open flow area, erosion tolerance, or superior filtration for unconsolidated formations, each screen is purpose-built to match application requirements.
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling, lab-based erosion testing, and controlled manufacturing processes ensure repeatable, field-validated performance.
Optimized filtration media and pore geometries minimize plugging while preventing sand ingress, hence protecting ICDs, artificial lift equipment, tubing, chokes, and separators downstream.
Unknown or variable particle-size distribution?
High-rate, high-velocity flow?
Slimhole or thru-tubing remediation?
Gravel-pack optimization?
Completion design in flux?