Disintegrating plugs to delay production through inflow control devices
AssigneeBaker Hughes Incorporated
InventorsNicholas Carrejo, Adriana Hightower, Tarik Abdelfattah, Nadine Macklin
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Abstract
An apparatus for controlling a flow of a fluid between a wellbore tubular and a wellbore annulus includes an inflow control device having an opening in fluid communication with a bore of the wellbore tubular, a first particulate control device forming a first fluid stream conveyed to the inflow control device; and at least one degradable flow blocker blocking fluid flow through the inflow control device.
Claims15
An apparatus for controlling a flow of a fluid between a wellbore tubular and a wellbore annulus, comprising:
- an inflow control device configured to generate a predetermined pressure drop in the flowing fluid, the inflow control device having at least one opening in fluid communication with a bore of the wellbore tubular;
- a particulate control device in fluid communication with the inflow control device and having at least one opening in fluid communication with the wellbore annulus;
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- at least one degradable flow blocker blocking fluid flow between the at least one opening of the particulate control device and the at least one opening of the inflow control device.
A method for controlling a flow of a fluid between a wellbore tubular and a wellbore annulus, comprising:
- configuring an inflow control device to generate a predetermined pressure drop the fluid flowing through the inflow control device, the inflow control device having at least one opening in fluid communication with a bore of the wellbore tubular;
- enabling fluid communication between the inflow control device and a particulate control device having at least one opening in fluid communication with the wellbore annulus;
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- temporarily blocking fluid flow between the at least one opening of the particulate control device and the at least one opening of the inflow control device using at least one degradable flow blocker.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.