Inflow control device
AssigneeCompletion Products Pte Ltd
InventorsGraeme Dowsett, Anush Rajaram, Eddie Yap, Kim Chiok Tay
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Abstract
An inflow control device for a well screen comprising: a body having an internal bore, said body mountable in line with a base pipe of said well screen; a plurality of body apertures in a wall of said body, said apertures spaced longitudinally and circumferentially from each other, about said wall; a slide member in sliding engagement with an inner surface of said body, said slide member having a plurality of slide apertures; wherein the inflow control device is arranged to selectively and progressively increase the aperture area through the body through sliding the slide member, so as to align at least one of the body apertures with at least one of the slide apertures.
Claims10
An inflow control device for a well screen comprising:
- a body having an internal bore, said body mountable in line with a base pipe of said well screen;
- a plurality of body apertures in a wall of said body, said apertures spaced longitudinally and circumferentially from each other, about said wall;
- a slide member in sliding engagement with an inner surface of said body, said slide member having a plurality of slide apertures
- wherein the inflow control device is arranged to selectively and progressively increase the aperture area through the body through sliding the slide member, so as to align at least one of the body apertures with at least one of the slide apertures.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.