Patent ID: 6745159
Filing Date: 2004-06-01
Classification: E21B

Abstract:
A process of designing a screenless completion for an oil or gas well, comprising:selecting an oil or gas well having a plurality of known characteristics; inputting data about the known characteristics into a programmed computer; determining, through operation of the programmed computer, whether a screenless completion should be performed on the selected well and, if so, identifying materials to be used in the screenless completion; in response to identifying materials to be used, indicating to a user a screenless completion design using the identified materials; performing the selecting, inputting, determining, identifying and indicating steps for other oil or gas wells, wherein identifying materials includes identifying the same materials for the respective screenless completion for each well having the same value set of known characteristics for which data are input into the computer; and wherein identifying materials includes distinguishing, through operation of the computer, between wells for which a liquid resin, proppant and fracturing fluid are to be used and wells for which a proppant, pre-coated with resin, and fracturing fluid are to be used.