Compliant screen with flow restrictive portions to reduce cross flow of wellbore fluids

A method for preventing crossflow through a compliant screen in a well completion, the method comprises:

• providing the compliant screen comprising:
• a drainage layer,
• a filtration layer disposed over the drainage layer;
• wherein the filtration layer is a mesh having a lower transition portion, an upper transition portion, and a compliant portion disposed between the lower and upper transition portions;
• wherein flow through the lower and upper transition portions is reduced relative to the compliant portion, wherein the mesh of the filtration layer comprises a weave of wires having gaps between the woven wires;
• wherein the mesh of the lower and upper transition portions is infused with a material disposed in the gaps between the woven wires;
• wherein the material reduces flow through the gaps of the mesh of the lower and upper transition portions, and
• an outer shroud disposed over the filtration layer;
• activating the compliant screen by expanding the compliant screen such that it makes contact with an adjacent subterranean formation;
• and
• flowing a fluid through the compliant portion from the subterranean formation.

A system for preventing crossflow through a compliant screen in a well completion, the system comprises:

• the compliant screen comprising:
• a drainage layer,
• a filtration layer disposed over the drainage layer;
• wherein the filtration layer is a mesh having a lower transition portion, an upper transition portion, and a compliant portion disposed between the lower and upper transition portions;
• wherein flow through the lower and upper transition portions is reduced relative to the compliant portion, wherein the mesh of the filtration layer comprises a weave of wires having gaps between the woven wires;
• wherein the mesh of the lower and upper transition portions is infused with a material disposed in the gaps between the woven wires;
• wherein the material reduces flow through the gaps of the mesh of the lower and upper transition portions, and
• an outer shroud disposed over the filtration layer;
• and
• a conduit having the compliant screen disposed thereon.