Section 2 - Downhole Tool Systems

Downhole Tool Systems

Halliburton Sand Control offers a complete line of By combining expertise in sand control fluids and
proven downhole equipment configured into pumping as well as in drilling, cementing,
compatible systems for successful sand control perforating, and testing, Halliburton Sand Control
completions. From complete gravel pack systems can ensure each system is designed with the total
to horizontal screen completion equipment, process in mind.
Halliburton has a system to meet your sand
control needs. The result is a tool system designed to satisfy your
sand control needs while saving rig time and
The development of these systems is based on minimizing fluid losses.
customer needs, comprehensive research in the
areas of metallurgy and elastomers, and many years
of experience in designing and manufacturing a
wide array of downhole equipment, such as packers,
screens, and fluid loss devices.
HAL16475
Horizontal Gravel Pack and Treat System
(STGP&T™ Single-Trip Gravel Pack and Treat System)
Downhole Tool Systems 2-1

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Halliburton Sand Control Systems
Well Completion Sand Control Additional Service Tool
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FracPac™ Systems √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Gravel Pack Systems √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
STGP&T™ Single-Trip Gravel Pack & Treat Systems √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
STMZ™ Single-Trip Multizone Systems √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
ESTMZ™ Enhanced Single-Trip Multizone Systems √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Liner-Conveyed Gravel Pack (LCGP) Systems √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Dual-Zone SmartWell® Systems √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Sandface Instrumentation (SFI) Systems √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Standalone Screen Systems √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Equiflow® Inflow Control Technology √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Stacked Fixed Absolute Isolation Systems √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
STPP™-GH Single-Trip Perf Pack Systems √ √ √ √ √ √
Through-Tubing Systems √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √

Sand Control System Solutions
Lower Completion Packer Assembly Base Case Components (Top to Bottom) Screens*
VTA EGF Flapper
Standard Packer1 Valves2
MCS Closing 5
Gravel Pack Makeup Sub PetroGuard® Wrap
VGP Sleeve2 IB Valves2
Systems
Packer1 FS2 Valves2
VTA EGF Flapper PetroGuard Shunt
Alternate Path Packer1 Valves2 System
MCS Closing
Gravel Pack Makeup Sub5 IB Valves2 CAPSSM Concentric
VGP Sleeve2
Systems Annular Pack Screen
Packer1 FS2 Valves2 Service
VBA EGF Flapper
Packer1 Valves3
VCA Heavy Wall ShurShot®
Standard MCS Closing MSJ Shear
Packer1 Upper Valves3 PetroGuard Mesh DS
FracPac™ Systems Sleeve2 Joint4
Extension
VCH IB Valves3
Packer1 FS2 Valves3
VBA EGF Flapper
Packer1 Valves3
Red Zone® VCA Red Zone MCS Closing ShurShot® MSJ Shear
Packer1 Valves3 PetroGuard Mesh DS
FracPac Systems Extension Sleeve2 Joint4
VCH IB Valves3
Packer1 FS2 Valves3
VBA EGF Flapper
Packer1 Valves2
Beyond Red
Beyond Red Zone® VCA Red Zone Zone MCS ShurShot MSJ Shear
Packer1 Valves2 PetroGuard Mesh DS
FracPac Systems Extension Closing Joint4
Sleeve IB Valves2
VCH
Packer1 FS2 Valves2
PetroGuard Mesh DS
with PetroGuard Shunt
VGH System and with
STGP&T™ Packer1 Upstream Downstream
Single-Trip Gravel MCS Closing Positioning Differential (UDD)
Makeup Sub FS2 Valves
Pack & Treat Sleeve2 Nipples6 Valves 7
Systems
PetroGuard Mesh DS
VCH
with CAPS Service and
Packer1
with UDD Valves7
VTA EGF Flapper
PetroGuard Mesh DS
Packer1 Valves 2
VGP
IB Valves2
Packer1
Non-Compliant
VBA MCS Closing
Standalone Screen Makeup Sub5
Packer1 Sleeve2
Systems PetroGuard Wrap
VCA
FS2 Valves2
Packer1
VCH
Packer1

VTA
Packer1 EGF Flapper
VGP Valves 2
Packer1
Compliant
VBA MCS Closing
Standalone Screen Makeup Sub5 IB Valves2 PetroGuard® Swell
Packer1 Sleeve2
Systems
VCA
Packer1
FS2 Valves2
VCH
Packer1
VTA
PetroGuard Mesh DS
Packer1
VGP
Packer1 Isolation
System with
Stacked Fixed
VBA MCS Closing Slimline
Absolute Isolation Makeup Sub5
Packer1 Sleeve2 DuraSleeve®
Systems PetroGuard Wrap
Sliding
VCA Sleeves
Packer1
VCH
Packer1
SFI MCS Closing
Sandface Scoop
Hydraulic-Set Sleeve with PetroGuard Line and
Instrumentation Head Splice-Sub Makeup Sub5 FS2 Valve
Retrievable Cable Cable System
(SFI) Systems Assembly
Packer Protection
VBA EGF Flapper
Packer1 Valves2
STPP™-GH Single- VCA MCS Closing ShurShot® Mechanical
Hydraulic
Auto-
Trip Perf Pack Packer1 Valves2 Retrievable Release Gun PetroGuard Mesh DS
Sleeve2 Release
Systems Packer Hanger
VCH IB Valves2
Packer1 FS2 Valves2
VCH ZoneGuard® EGF Flapper
Liner-Conveyed Packers1 Cementing Packers Shrouded Valves2
MCS Closing
Gravel Pack (LCGP) Makeup Sub5 MCS Closing MCS Closing PetroGuard Mesh DS
VGH Sleeve2 Swellable IB Valves2
Systems Sleeve Sleeve
Packers1 Packers FS2 Valves2
VCH ZoneGuard EGF Flapper
LCGP Systems Packers1 Packers Valves2
Shrouded
Multilateral with Disconnect 5
MCS Closing Makeup Sub PetroGuard Mesh DS
FlexRite® VGH Tool Swellable IB Valves2
Sleeve
Technology Packers1 Packers FS2 Valves2
Hydraulic
Isolation
STMZ™ Single-Trip VGP Upper MCS Closing Packers
Makeup Sub5 PetroGuard Mesh DS
Multizone Systems Packer1 Sealbore Sleeve Slipless
Isolation
Packers
ESTMZ™
Hydraulic PetroGuard Modular
Enhanced Single- Hydraulic
VCH Upper MCS Closing Activated Screens with Mid-Joint
Trip Multizone Makeup Sub5 Isolation
Packer1 Sealbore Sleeve MSJ Shear and Frac Circulation
Systems - Packers
Joint4 Sleeves
Cased Hole System
ESTMZ Systems - Frac

Hydraulic ZoneGuard PetroGuard Modular
Openhole System Shrouded Circulation
VCH Upper Activated Packers Screens with Mid-Joint
and Multilateral Makeup Sub5 MCS Closing Sleeves
Packer1 Sealbore MSJ Shear and Frac Circulation
with FlexRite® Sleeve Swellable Production
Joint4 Sleeves
Technology Packers Sleeves
2-4 Downhole Tool Systems

VTA
Packer1 EGF Flapper Adjustable ICDs with
VGP Valves2 PetroGuard® Mesh DS
Packer1
Passive EquiFlow®
VBA MCS Closing
Inflow Control Makeup Sub5 IB Valves2 Or
Packer1 Sleeve2
Technology
VCA
Packer1 Adjustable ICDs with
FS2 Valves2
VCH PetroGuard Wrap
Packer1
VTA
Packer1 EGF Flapper Autonomous ICDs with
VGP Valves2 PetroGuard Mesh DS
Packer1
Autonomous
VBA MCS Closing
EquiFlow Inflow Makeup Sub5 IB Valves2 Or
Packer1 Sleeve2
Control Technology
VCA
Packer1 Autonomous ICDs with
FS2 Valves2
VCH PetroGuard Wrap
Packer1
*Screen types are interchangeable between systems.
1Packer selection depends on pressure ratings, temperature, service requirements, casing size, running speed, etc. Refer to pages 3-2 through 3-7 for further
details on Versa-Trieve® packers.
2Refer to pages 3-20 and 3-21 for further details on MCS closing sleeves.
3Fluid loss device selection depends on opening methods, pressure requirements, casing size, etc. Refer to pages 3-22 through 3-28 for further details on
selection criteria.
4Refer to page 3-32 for further details on MSJ shear joints.
5Refer to pages 3-32 for further details on makeup subs.
6One-way and two-way positioning nipples are required to operate the ROC™ Reverse-Out Check tool of STGP&T™ service tool assembly.
7Refer to pages 3-53 for further details on Upstream/ Downstream Differential (UDD) valves.

Standard FracPac™ Systems
Several very effective gravel packing techniques are available. The practice of applying fracturing and sand control in a
Each technique has special advantages and is designed for single treatment has existed for several years. Now the
unique applications. methods, tools, and materials are being designed to take full
advantage of the theory behind tip-screenout fracturing as
applied to poorly consolidated, high-permeability
FracPac™ Systems formations. In such formations, fracture conductivity is the
key design factor to effectively bypass damage and provide
In the 1990s, industry experts introduced the concept of
stimulation. FracPac completion services create the short,
increasing the pack-sand volume placed outside the casing
wide fractures that promote maximum conductivity to
(high-permeability fracturing). These frac packs required even
develop maximum productivity potential.
more specialized tool designs to withstand the high flow rates
and proppant volumes being pumped at high pressure.
Because FracPac systems can reduce drawdown and flow
Synthetic proppants became more frequently used since they
velocity at the wellbore, formation sand production caused
were more resistant to crushing and had higher permeability
by formation failure or solids migration is reduced. As an
under high confining stress. However, because synthetic
investment in higher production rates over a longer
proppants can be significantly more erosive than sands, they
production life, a FracPac system completion can offer
pose additional design problems for tool designers. Sand
enhanced benefits compared to a standard gravel pack.
control continues to evolve. New tool systems, fluids, and
chemicals are continually being developed for improved sand
Halliburton has developed systems that provide optimum
placement and pack performance.
performance levels for every FracPac system application.
From the basic FracPac system to the higher rate Red Zone®
FracPacSM completion services combine the stimulation
tool system to the industry leading Beyond Red Zone® system
advantages of hydraulic fracturing with the most effective
tools, Halliburton can provide the right solution to meet your
techniques available for sand control in poorly
sand control frac pack needs.
consolidated, high-permeability formations. Whether the
job is a new completion in a formation known for
sanding or a recompletion of a well with existing damage,
FracPac™ systems provide a short, wide fracture for
bypassing skin damage near the wellbore. Highly
conductive proppant is then placed from the leading tip of
the fracture all the way to the borehole. This tip-screenout
(TSO) method controls sand production both by
minimizing radial flow velocity at the wellbore and by
stabilizing sand directly at the fracture rather than allowing
it to reach and accumulate at the wellbore.

FracPac™ System
Completion Service
Equipment Tools
MPW Service Tool
Straight Pull
Release Locator
Versa-Trieve®
Packer
Red Zone® or Frac Crossover

Frac Upper Extension
Setting Ball in
Tapered Ball Seat
MCS Closing Sleeve or
Beyond Red Zone®
Closing Sleeve
Blank Pipe
(Heavy Walled)
Multi-Acting Reverse Ball
Check and Swivel
Closing Sleeve
Shifting Tool
Indicator Coupling ShurMAC™ Multi-Acting

Weight-Down Collet
MSJ Shear Joint Washpipe
ShurShot® Fluid Loss

Control Device ShurShot ISS Tool
Production Screen
Top Snap Locator

and Seal Assembly
Sump Packer
Run Set Weight-Down Squeeze

Packer Circulate (Annulus Closed)

Red Zone® and Beyond Red Zone® FracPac™ Systems
Halliburton’s Red Zone® and Beyond Red Zone® FracPacSM
services are complete packages that include pumping and
tool system design, tool system analysis, and job execution.
Beyond Red Zone FracPac services provide the highest rates
and volumes available in the industry.
Jobs are analyzed for optimum pumping rates and volumes.

Selection and positioning of the service tool, upper
extension, and closing sleeve is followed by analysis of the
pumping schedule to verify suitability of the system under
extreme conditions. Analysis uses one of several tools that
may include COSMOSFloWorks™* solid fluid flow modeling,
Halliburton’s proprietary erosion modeling, or more
advanced analysis tools.
The system incorporates the multi-position service tool with

Versa-Trieve® packers to provide for ultra high-rate, large
proppant volume sand control pumping treatments. The
multi-position tool is used to carry the gravel pack assembly
downhole and to set the packer. Once the screen assembly is
positioned across the perforated interval, a ball is dropped
down the workstring. Pump pressure is applied to set the
Versa-Trieve packer and either pressure, straight pull, or a
combination will release the multi-position tool. In the run-
in position, the crossover is located in the sealbore below the
closing sleeve. Once the packer is set and the service tool
released, the ShurMAC™ collet positions the crossover above
the closing sleeve exit ports.
Features
• Utilizes wear-resistant, carbide sleeve technology
• Retains ability to monitor live annulus pressure in
all sizes
• Wear is concentrated on the service tool and packer’s
upper casing extension, not the wellbore casing
• Setting ball is gravitated to its seat below crossover and
remains in place throughout the job (not reversed out)
• Washdown capability in some sizes
• Alternating squeeze/live annulus capability in some sizes
• Longer upper extension provides room for tool
movement due to thermal effects
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*COSMOSFloWorks is a trademark of Structural Research and Analysis

Corporation.
Flow Through Crossover Section of
Red Zone® FracPac™ System

Benefits • Treating pressure can be monitored in real time through
• Helps increase the likelihood of incident-free the annulus for better pack evaluation
sand placement • Tubing movement due to pumping pressure and
• Helps reduce cost and risk of individually completing temperature effects can be compensated for prior to the
multiple intervals start for better control of the job
• Proper stimulation of high kH intervals (long intervals,
high perm) Applications
• High kH, poorly consolidated reservoir intervals
• No ball seat to shear eliminates the chance of pressure
surges to the formation • Multiple intervals requiring completion as one interval
Red Zone® FracPac™ System Maximum Tool Ratings

Tool Size Flow Rate Volume Proppant
5-in. 2.55 20 bbl/min 175,000 lb 20/40 (SG2.71) Ceramic

5 1/2-in. 2.75 30 bbl/min 175,000 lb 20/40 (SG2.71) Ceramic
6 5/8-in. 40 bbl/min 400,000 lb 20/40 (SG2.71) Ceramic
and 7-in. 3.25 25 bbl/min 250,000 lb 20/40 (SG3.56) Ceramic
7-in. (17-35 lb) 3.88 40 bbl/min 250,000 lb 20/40 (SG2.71) Ceramic
9 5/8-in. 5.00 60 bbl/min 1.2 MM lb 20/40 (SG3.27) Ceramic
Rating can be impacted by customer completion requirements.

Horizontal Gravel Pack Systems
HZGP Pressure Maintenance System predict and model horizontal gravel packing. The program
offers several models for leakoff, including dependent
Horizontal gravel pack systems (HZGP) have become a
leakoff. The program handles the effect of friction pressures
popular method of completing horizontal wells. The simple
and flow geometries and can simulate the effect of hole
field-proven horizontal gravel pack tool system provides a
washouts. It incorporates friction correlations developed
reliable method for maintaining and controlling pressure
from experimental measurements of flow-through screen
against the formation filter cake to prevent wellbore collapse.
and washpipes. The HzGPSim program calculates required
Using a computer simulator to design enhanced alpha/beta
injection and return rates; expected bottomhole treating
wave placement, the system maintains optimum screen
pressures; predicted heights of alpha and beta waves; time for
coverage with predicted alpha/beta wave pressure curves.
end of alpha and beta waves; and minimum rate below which
The damage-tolerant design of the PetroGuard® Wrap screen
a premature screenout will occur.
adds to the system’s reliability. The HZGP system is
consistently executed around the globe.
Packer Test Assembly
Maintaining a fluid hydrostatic overbalance on the formation
The HZGP tool system has a packer pre-setting mechanism
is critical to maintaining hole stability and successful gravel
to prevent the packer from setting prior to use. The system
packing. Removing the fluid hydrostatic overbalance will
also provides standard gravel pack positions, an injection
allow the filter cake to lift off, creating additional fluid loss
control device for acid spotting, and an activated ball check
and/or allowing the openhole to collapse. To pack the
for hydrostatic maintenance. The system has washdown
horizontal section and maintain a hydrostatic overbalance on
capabilities while running the packer and toe-to-heel and
the formation, a packer test assembly can be run. This
heel-to-toe circulation capabilities after setting. The lower
assembly provides additional flow control to allow pressure
telltale screen and shoe can be isolated after packing.
to be maintained during all phases of the completion. The
assembly requires additional components to be included or
Features
designed into the gravel pack service tool. These additional
• Simple, trouble-free installation
components provide flow paths that control weight-down
• Spiral centralizers ease running, maximize hole cleanup, washdown circulation, provide for a packer testing position
and help aid in prevention of screen plugging with fluid circulation into the open hole, shut off circulation
• Allows positive identification of the tool positions with through the actuated reverse ball seat, and reopen that path
tension and compression prior to final reverse circulation and actuation.
• Pressure maintenance feature helps ensure pressure
surges cannot occur during tool movement or packer Screen Isolation Device
setting The screen isolation device is a washpipe-deployed plug used
• Internal synergies of the system are proven to enhance to permanently isolate the sacrificial screen and shoe after
execution the gravel pack. When the gravel pack is complete, it is set in
the upper sealbore (above the sacrificial screen) by a straight
• Allows for running the screen, displacing the hole, pull. It is locked in place by internal slips. The running tool is
setting the packer, circulating, gravel packing, and released by tension. During initial screen running
actuating the fluid loss device in a single trip operations, the plug is placed into a lower sub assembly with
a latch looking upward. Once the screen is in the well, the
The HZGP system yields high production rates due to the washpipe is run with a mating Ratch-Latch™ tool on bottom
utilization of a maximum screen size, which minimizes and is stabbed and latched into the plug assembly.
friction pressures, maximizes the chances of hole cleanup
without the need for breakers, and maximizes hole cleanup Locator Nipple
prior to gravel placement. The locator nipple is an upper sealbore receptacle made up
above the sacrificial screen. The sealbore receptacle provides
A variety of numerical and physical simulation tools are a profile for latching the washpipe isolation plug after gravel
available to assist in job planning including Halliburton’s
packing. With the washpipe-deployed plug installed, both the
HzGPSim™ horizontal gravel pack simulator. The HzGPSim
sacrificial screen and shoe are isolated.
software program has been successfully used globally to

Other numerical and physical simulation tools available • Jaycor GPS2001 gravel pack simulator – Has variable
include: casing, toolstring, and bottomhole assembly and allows
for multiple formation input. It permits flow in three
• WAVE horizontal gravel pack simulator – Takes into dimensions—down the wellbore, radially outward, and
account the complications arising from the CAPS™ around the circumference.
geometry. It became an integral part of the HalWin™ • 56-ft flow loop
program starting with version 2.6.0 and is based on the
• Small scale GP model (3.75-in. ID, 12.5-ft length)
premise the pressure in openhole/shroud, shroud/screen,
screen/washpipe annuli is equal at every point along the • Full-scale model (8.6-in. ID, 40-ft length)
length of the assembly.
Packer Test Assembly
Open for Circulation
Packer Running and Circulating
Actuated Reverse Ball Check Valve - Open
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Setting the Packer
Screen Plug Assembly Isolates

the Lower Screen
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Wash Shoe and Screen Plug Assembly

Versa-Trieve® Packer/Multi-Position Tool Systems
Single-Zone Completion System
The Versa-Trieve® packer/MPA tool completion assembly
with screen, blank, and lower seals is located in and isolated
on its lower end with a Perma-Series® sump packer, or the
assembly is bull-plugged on the end of the screen. A
Versa-Trieve-type retrievable or PGP-type Perma-Series
permanent gravel pack packer can be used as the upper
packer. The upper packer is then set as described in
“Section 3 Downhole Sand Control Components.” This
separates the MPA tool from the packer so it can move to the
required positions.
Squeeze Position
With the MPA tool fully in the packer bore (run-in, weight-
down position), return circulation is prevented. All fluids
pumped down the workstring are forced into the formation.
This position is used to test the packer, obtain injection rates,
and force acid or slurry into the perforations. This position
does not expose the workstring casing annulus to workstring
treating pressures.
Circulating Position
Raising the multi-position tool exposes a port on the upper
end of the MPA tool that is sealed in the packer bore when
the multi-position tool is fully in the packer. The opening of
this port allows circulation down the tubing, out of the MCS
closing sleeve, past the perforated interval, through the
screen, into the end of the washpipe, up the washpipe and
around the crossover sub, out the upper circulation ports,
and up the workstring casing annulus. This position is used
to circulate fluid and slurry to bottom, to take fluid returns to
dehydrate a gravel pack slurry, or to monitor treating
pressure on the annulus when performing a squeezing (frac
pack) operation with the surface annulus choke closed.
Reversing Out Position

This position is obtained by raising the multi-position tool
until its crossover ports are above the sealbore of the packer.
The reversing out position is used when spotting fluids down
the workstring, pickling the workstring, or reversing excess
slurry out of the workstring upon completion of the gravel
pack operation. Seals below the crossover ports of the multi-
position tool remain in the packer bore while reverse
circulating to isolate the formation from the applied pump
pressure. Generally a reverse ball check is run in the
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washpipe to prevent fluid escaping the annulus above the

packer into the formation through the circulation ports and
down the washpipe. A ball check with weep tube may be Squeeze
Position
utilized to prevent a swab effect during tool movement.

Production Tubing Run Into Place Versa-Trieve® packer and the sealbore of the flow sub.
The production seal assembly is run in the well on the The seal assembly isolates annular fluids and directs well
production tubing. The seal assembly is stung into the production up the tubing string.
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HAL16085
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Weight-Down Reversing Out Producing

Circulating Position Position

Multizone Stacked Completion Assemblies
When a well with multiple zones must be completed and string up the production tubing. A Halliburton DuraSleeve®
isolated, the lower zone is packed in the same manner as a Sliding Side-Door® production sleeve can be run in the
single-zone installation. If the zones are conveniently spaced, isolation string to gain access to the upper zone, and an Otis®
the upper packer in the lower zone can be used to locate and X-Line® or R-Line® nipple can be run just above the lower set
form a base (sump packer) for the upper zone pack. of seals to isolate the lower zone as required.
Perforation operations for the upper zone are performed

Production Seal
once the lower zone has been completed. A packer plug is Assembly
run into the upper packer of the lower zone to isolate the
BHD or RDH
lower zone during perforating. After perforating and Dual Hydraulic-Set
perforation cleanup, the packer plug is retrieved. The upper Packer
zone completion assembly is run on the multi-position tool
(MPT) until the lower seal assembly locates the lower zone
upper packer. Packer setting, testing, and gravel placement Versa-Trieve®
Packer
operations are performed as described previously.
MCS Closing
If the upper zone is not sufficiently close to the lower zone, Sleeve
an isolation packer with tailpipe can be used to seal in the MSJ Shear Sub
lower zone upper packer. This isolation packer then becomes Lower Zone
the sump packer for the upper zone pack. Production String
Blank Pipe
Dual-Zone Completions
For simultaneous independent production from two zones, a Production Screen
seal assembly is run on the end of the long string of a dual
Landing Nipple
packer such as the DHC, BHD, or RDH dual hydraulic
packers, which are described in the Halliburton Completion Lower Polished
Nipple with Collet
Solutions catalog. The seal assembly locates in the lower Indicator Seal Assembly
polished nipple, which is above or contained within the seal
Versa-Trieve
assembly that seals in the packer of the lower zone Packer
completion assembly. The lower zone is produced up the MFS Ported
long string, and the upper zone flows concentrically up the Flow Sub
annulus to the short string.
Collet Seal
Assembly
The Twin-Flow Absolute Isolation System (AIS) assembly is MSJ Shear
used in dual-zone completions requiring isolated production Sub
from each of the two zones simultaneously. The Twin-Flow Blank Pipe
AIS assembly also provides fluid loss control to the upper
zone while production tubing is being run. Once the tubing Production
is in place, pressure can be applied to the annulus down the Screen
short string or through a smart valve tied to the annulus
Sump Packer and
above the gravel pack packer to activate and open the Seal Assembly
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Twin-Flow AIS assembly. This will allow production from

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the upper zone.

Dual-Zone
Selective-Zone Completions Selective-Zone
Completion Completion
Seal assemblies are run to seal in both the lower sealbore and Production Upper Zone
upper packer. Production tubing between the seal assemblies
is spaced out to locate the lower set of seals in the lower Production Lower Zone
sealbore. The lower zone is produced through the isolation
Sump

Openhole Tool System
Field-proven Versa-Trieve® packers and multi-position
tools used in cased hole completions are also used in
openhole completions. Openhole gravel packs eliminate
flow restrictions caused by cased hole perforations.
In an openhole tool system, the screen is freely suspended in

the openhole. Centralizing the screen permits a uniform pack
around the screen to provide a uniform formation sand filter.
The deviation of the wellbore and formation characteristics
determine the type of centralizer. The type of screen selected
can be important to the success of the completion and may
differ from the screen normally selected for a cased hole
completion. Borehole stability and cleanliness will also impact
the success of the pack.
Specific openhole tool system designs exist for the shorter

vertical wells, horizontal screen only, horizontal gravel packs,
and horizontal gravel packs that need a post-gravel pack
treatment. Consult your local Halliburton representative for
the correct system for your well application.
See “Section 4 Screens” for screen-related options and

“Section 5 Sand Control Production Enhancement Products
and Services” for fluid-related options.
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Versa-Trieve® Packer/
Multi-Position Tool System

Weight-Down Circulating (Live Annulus) System
The weight-down system is an operationally simple
alternative to extending the length of the system to be able to
locate positions. The weight-down systems allow the squeeze Close BOP
and circulating positions to be located with weight-down on to squeeze fluids
the packer. This system of choice for many operators has a (Open to circulate)
number of important benefits.
Features
• Tubing movement due to frac pressures can be
compensated for prior to the start of the job.
• Tubing elongation or contraction is controlled with
weight on the packer.
• Reverse out position is not affected and is located in the
same way as a conventional multi-position tool system.
• Squeeze and circulation flow can be controlled by the
surface choke.
• Treating pressure can be monitored in real time down No seals above return
flow ports
the annulus with the tool in the circulate position.
(Allows fluid to circulate
and pressure to reach
Benefits the annulus with weight
• Helps minimize the effects of vessel heave (floating on the packer)
vessel operations)
• Simple operation
Various weight-down system options exist in the different

size tools. These include:
• Ported locator
• Single acting weight-down collet-circulate system
• Single and ShurMAC™-circulate and squeeze system
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Weight-Down System
Squeeze Position

Short Weight-Down Circulating Tool System
This system was designed to be extremely short in order to
isolate very closely spaced packed zones. The no-movement
circulating position of the weight-down system allows the
flow sub assembly to be substantially shortened. The upper
extension is eliminated, and the MCS closing sleeve or MFS
flow sub is screwed directly in an extended packer bottom
sub. The shear joint is attached to the bottom of the MCS
sleeve. Lower extension length can be minimal depending on
tool design.
Weight-Down/Washdown Circulating
Tool System
The washdown version of the weight-down system combines
the features of the washdown system with the benefits of the
weight-down system. Washing operations can be performed
across the zone of interest followed by a weight-down
circulating pack. With this system, the washdown crossover Packer with
tool ports are initially located in the sealbore of the MCS Pin Thread
closing sleeve or MFS flow sub assembly. Fluid can be Bottom Sub
circulated through the completion assembly as it is run into
the well. The setting ball seals the crossover washdown port
and allows application of pressure to set the packer. Once the
tool is raised and subsequently lowered, a weight-down, Standard MCS
positive collet prevents the tool from returning to its run-in, Closing Sleeve
weight-down position. Fluid can now be circulated out the
crossover ports that are properly positioned for weight-down
circulating, FracPac™ system, or gravel pack operations.
Short MPT
Tool
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Short Weight-Down Packer and

Service Tool Assembly

Washdown Circulating System
The Versa-Trieve® multi-position tool system for open or crossover sub-assembly is needed to provide a flow path
cased hole can be modified to a washdown gravel pack through the length of the tool. This flow path remains open
system. The washdown system allows circulation down the until the setting ball lands in the tapered seat below the
workstring and through the washpipe as the completion crossover and is caught by the specially designed tapered seat
assembly is lowered into the well. A washdown shoe is which wedges the ball into place and shuts off the washdown
attached to the lower end of the screen assembly; or, if a flow path. The washdown system can be used to remove hole
sump packer is used, the fluid can be circulated out through stabilization material before gravel packing, to displace
the end of the seal assembly. With a seal assembly, reverse completion brines and spot acid, and to wash through minor
circulation is possible. areas of hole instability. The squeeze, circulating, upper
circulating, and reverse positions are the same as those of
With a washdown system, the MCS closing sleeve is run other multi-position tools.
either with the sleeve in the closed position or the MPT
crossover ports are positioned to seal in the sealbore of the Refer to “Section 4 Screens” and “Section 5 Sand Control
closing sleeve. Fluids pumped down the workstring are Production Enhancement Products and Services” for more
prevented from escaping out the closing sleeve or crossover information regarding openhole gravel pack completions.
ports. A specially modified washdown multi-position tool
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Washing Packer Setting Circulating

Position Position Position

Absolute Isolation Fluid Loss Systems
The Absolute Isolation System (AIS) provides a means to
isolate the screen adjacent to the producing interval
immediately following completion operations. This system
uses the concentric string below the multi-position tool as
the isolation string to seal off the screened interval prior to Upper Versa-Trieve® Packer
pulling out of the hole with the workstring. This system has
been particularly effective in stacked-zone completions.
Where fluid loss and downhole flow between zones presents
a problem for fluid loss flappers or chemical fluid loss Concentric Production Tubing
methods, the AIS is a proven and reliable solution. Producing
gravel packed intervals have been effectively isolated, packed,
MCS Closing Sleeve
and selectively produced with this system.
Twin-Flow AIS System

Fluid loss control in ultra-deepwater completions utilizing
SmartWell® system technology can present a challenge. To
help alleviate these challenges, Halliburton engineered the
Twin-Flow Annular Isolation System (AIS) valve, a
hydraulically actuated fluid loss device. The valve allows the
production of two discrete production paths through the
valve while on production and manages fluid loss to the Seal Assembly in
upper zone after stimulation. This valve is actuated only after Twin-Flow Receptacle
the SmartWell system equipment is in place and is activated
with a single hydraulic pressure cycle.
Twin-Flow AIS
In addition to the Twin-Flow AIS valve designed for the
uppermost zone of a SmartWell system completion, an
additional Twin-Flow AIS valve was designed to manage
fluid loss to both the zone of interest and to the zone(s) below Upper Zone Screen
the valve. This valve was designed to meet the challenge
presented where the upper two zones of a triple-stack Isolation Tubing
FracPac™ system completion were to be commingled.
Seal Assembly
Lower Zone Versa-Trieve Packer
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Lower Zone Seal Assembly

STGP&T™ Single-Trip Gravel Pack and Treat System
The STGP&T™ single-trip gravel pack and treat system is a STGP&T System Capabilities
horizontal openhole gravel packing system that saves the • Provides a means to re-establish circulation to the
extra trip needed to treat the formation. The system has all bottom of the service string for pump out or post gravel
the beneficial features of Halliburton's conventional pack treatment for filter cake removal operations:
horizontal gravel pack tool system with an added treating - Ability to wash the entire interval as tool is retrieved
feature to reduce rig time. It is normally used on horizontal
- Eliminates a second trip for treating operations
gravel packs to treat the production interval after packing it.
The service tool incorporates all the functionalities to run Gravel Pack Fluid System Developments
and install the sandface completion, pump the sand control • N-FLOW™ delayed breaker systems
treatment, and spot in the same trip as a filter cake breaker - Works to remove filter cakes created with Baroid's
system once the gravel pack is placed. When the lower DRIL-N®line of drill-in fluids for drilling openholes
completion service tool is finally retrieved, a shifter at the
end of the washpipe closes the fluid loss control or reservoir Complete Products and Fluid Systems
isolation device that will be opened once the upper • Clean drill-in fluids
completion is installed. At that time, the well is ready for • Pumping services
production with no further intervention required. • Uphole completion equipment
Our service tool offering includes tools specifically designed • Intervention services
for long horizontal openhole applications that incorporate a • SmartWell® system (6.00 bore system)
hydraulic section combining the following specifications:
• High tensile load capability
• High running torque capability
• Soft release mechanism from the packer
• Contingency rotate to release
The service tool has also been designed to provide weight

indications on surface when moved through the various tool
positions. It incorporates a check valve assembly that locates
in nipples or restrictions run as part of the lower completion
packer assembly. Any time the tool is raised from the
circulate position or lowered from the reverse position a
weight indication is shown on surface, ensuring the operator
knows the service tool position inside the packer assembly
and related flow path. Similarly, an indication denotes when
the tool converts to the treat mode once gravel pack pumping
is complete, prior to spotting any filter-cake treatment.
Benefits
• Saves a trip into the well, saving time and money
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• Reduces fluid loss potential and well control problems

• Conveys lower completion equipment to total depth safely
• Provides wash-down capabilities while running in hole
• Allows setting and testing of the gravel pack packer
• Maintains controlled hydrostatic pressure against the Treating Sleeve for
formation at all times STGP&T™ System
• Provides both a circulate and a reverse position for
pumping purposes, achieved through tool reciprocation
• Provides a weight-down circulate position for simplified
operations off of a floating drilling unit

ROC™ Tool (Open)
Setting the Packer
ROC Tool (Closed)
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Hydro-Plug®
Treating Sleeve Weight-Down Collet

Multizone Gravel/FracPac™ Systems
STMZ™ Single-Trip Multizone Completion
Systems
Halliburton is a leader in multizone systems that enable the
isolation and gravel packing of all zones that require gravel
pack for sand control in fewer trips.
With conventional multi-trip systems, the tools must be

tripped out of the hole numerous times in order to perforate,
clean up, complete, and gravel pack multiple zones. This is
not only time consuming and expensive, it also exposes the
formation repeatedly to potential damage. The STMZ™
single-trip multizone system accomplishes treatment and
packing operations for all zones in a single trip. A single
production isolation string isolates the well.
The STMZ system is applicable when the zones have

equivalent bottomhole pressure and are similar lengths.
A unique retrievable packoff assembly, located in the upper

packer assembly, isolates the completion interval from the
annulus above the top packer. The multiple zones may be
commingled and produced or may be selectively produced
depending on the production seal unit configuration.
Features
• Perforating for all zones is done in one trip with tubing
conveyed perforating or multiple trips with wireline. All
zones are perforated first.
• Sand control completion tools are run for all zones in a
single trip.
• The packing operations are completed in the same trip.
• The well is isolated with a single isolation string.
Benefits
• Quadra™ seal technology for lower service tool seal
friction, longer life, and less sticking
• Helps reduce safety and operational risk
• Helps reduce rig time costs
• Helps reduce perforating costs
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• Helps reduce hole preparation cost

• Helps reduce pipe pickling costs
STMZ™ Single-Trip
• Helps reduce filtration costs Multizone System
• Helps reduce completion tool running costs
• Helps reduce flowback and cleanup time
• Helps reduce potential for formation damage
• Can improve gravel packing fluid loss/control

ESTMZ™ Enhanced Single-Trip Multizone FracPac™ Completion System
The ESTMZ™ system is the latest in the single trip family. It is Applications
similar to the STMZ™ system and provides the same benefits. • Multizone completions for cased and openhole
It is designed to address the multiple independent producing installations
zones within a well and isolate each one. In addition, it is Features and Benefits
enhanced with greater pressure rating and proppant
• One perforating trip—all zones
pumping capabilities. Benefits include the ability to
profitably complete very deep, multizone reservoirs as • One cleanup and de-burring trip
compared to stacked FracPac™ completion systems. • One completion assembly trip
• Sequential packing process
The ESTMZ system has frac pack rate and volume • Higher frac pack rates and volumes
capabilities to enable optimum fracturing of five or more
• Larger ID, 10,000 psi rated systems
zones at rates of up to 45 bbl/min and proppant volumes up
to 750,000 lb per zone. Size availability includes 9 5/8-in. • Modular screen for zonal isolation
cased hole, 8 1/2-in. openhole, and 7-in. cased hole systems. • Fluid loss control/zonal isolation
Field-proven Versa-Trieve® packers and

innovative high-load HPT setting tool
Multiple isolation packer options
Selective shifting profiles
Proven weight-down
positioning with the
ShurMac™ collet
Proven sump packers and

top-snap collet positioning HA
L3
85
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Dual Basepipe Modular Screen
This screen provides an annular flow path much like a fixed
absolute isolation system when combined with mid-joint
production and frac circulation sleeves. The modular screen
is connected as a complete unit across each zone. Annular
communication between joints is accomplished with the use
of a bulkhead fitting on the inner basepipe. A single sleeve at
the bottom of the screen is opened to allow flow. This
eliminates the need for washpipe seals; thereby enabling the
treatment of various zone lengths in the same wellbore.
PetroGuard® Modular Screen

By utilizing the Halliburton PetroGuard® direct-wrap
technology, a single basepipe modular screen was created.
The annular flow path is created by unique screen rib wires
between the non-perforated basepipe and the screen jacket.
Annular communication between joints is accomplished
through a communication sleeve installed after torquing the
premium basepipe thread. The screen can be configured with
PetroGuard Wrap wrap-on-pipe or PetroGuard Mesh DS
premium screen.
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Modular
Screen

Liner-Conveyed Gravel Pack Systems
The Liner-Conveyed Gravel Pack (LCGP) system provides a • Multilateral wells requiring sand control
single-trip combination casing liner and screen assembly • Stand-alone screen completion with or without a
with the capability to place a sand control completion across cemented liner
the sandface and cement the liner above. Since the liner is
• Gravel pack completion with or without a cemented liner
combined with the screen into a single completion assembly,
extends to just below the multilateral junction
the screen does not have to pass through the liner, enabling
the larger basepipe screen to be placed across the sandface. In Features and Benefits
some applications, use of the LCGP system may enable the • Maximizes system production flow bore
reduction of a casing size in the well design.
• Eliminates a liner run and associated clean out and liner
The larger OD/ID screen across the sandface enables the use testing time
of larger gravel packing tools and larger screens to increase • Saves drilling fluid and conditioning time
the open flow areas and reduce the pressure drop across the • Openhole gravel pack or stand-alone screen completion
reservoir. This optimizes production and minimizes erosion. in fewer trips
• Uses external casing packers (ECP), Swellpacker®
In multilateral systems, liner disconnect can be incorporated systems, and/or cement to isolate the liner
to remove the upper portion of the liner when completing
multilateral completions. Once activated, the liner packer • Eliminates the screen size reduction normally associated
and part of the liner can be removed from the lower assembly with a standard liner-based well design
leaving the top of the liner below the lateral junction. The • Helps eliminate openhole transition concerns (rathole)
multilateral junction can be reconnected, if needed, when associated with deepwater wells, which can frequently
tripping upper completion equipment. lead to gravel placement issues
• Compatible with all screen types
Applications • Liner can be cemented using fluid displacement or
• Sidetrack completions in existing wellbores conventional cementing pumpdown plugs to provide
• Slimhole primary completions positive pressure confirmation
• Isolating nonproductive sections of a zone
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Dual-Zone SmartWell® Deepwater Systems
Dual-Zone SmartWell® Deepwater Systems combine leading • ICVs optimize productivity

technologies into a robust system designed to optimize - High overall production rates
production in subsea, deepwater completions, including - Increases well longevity
stack packed sand control wells. This system allows dual or
- Proven long-term performance and reliability
multizone flow, using SmartWell interval control valves
(ICV) to regulate and maximize production from each zone.
Downhole permanent gauges allow continuous monitoring
Typical Dual-Zone Intelligent Completion
of the well's production. And the Twin-Flow absolute
Characteristics
isolation system (AIS) enables separate production flow • 9 5/8 to 13 3/8-in. casing sizes
paths in dual-zone sand control completions. • 1,000 to 10,000-ft water depth or greater
• Two to three zones
During the completion phase, fluid loss control is achieved
• FS2 fluid loss control – lower zone
using the Twin-Flow AIS for the upper zone, and the FS2
valve for the lower zone, while running the upper • Twin-Flow AIS fluid loss control – upper zone
completion. Both technologies permit remote pressure • CS-LSOTJ long space-out sealing travel joint
opening without intervention. • SmartWell ICVs with permanent downhole gauges
• HF1 upper completion packer
The use of the continuous sealing long space-out travel joint
(CS-LSOTJ) simplifies the space out procedure when landing • DepthStar® subsurface safety valve
the subsea hanger. The benefit of this technology grows as HF-1 Isolation Production Packer
water depth increases. The CS-LSOTJ maintains sealing for
The isolation production packer is used as a production
zonal isolation over its adjustable extended stroke length.
tubing anchor to prevent wellbore pressure and production
Production or injection flow is then optimized through the
from entering the casing above the formation. It diverts oil
ICVs. The CS-LSOTJ also enables running of the upper
and gas flow into the production tubing, protecting the
completion in a single trip.
subsea tubing hanger and production casing from high
pressure and corrosive fluids.
System components work in unison to offer unique benefits
to the overall completion design. The system, as well as the Upper ICV
individual components, is designed to extend the life of the The upper ICV diverts upper zone production into the
well by using the most reliable equipment in the industry. tubing through the surface-regulated ICV choke. The choke
Performance is assured through integrated completion is controlled at surface through the attached control lines,
design that enables safe, efficient operations offshore. allowing the upper zone to be produced in a controlled and
optimized flow. In turn, flow is co-mingled with the lower
Features zone in a controlled manner to maximize production from
• Dual or multizone applications both zones simultaneously.
• Independent zonal fluid loss control
• Compatible with leading edge Beyond Red Zone® Lower ICV
FracPac™ system technology The lower ICV diverts lower zone production into the tubing
through the surface-regulated ICV choke. The choke is
• Intelligent well capability
controlled at surface through attached control lines, allowing
the lower zone to be produced in a controlled and optimized
Benefits
flow. In turn, flow is co-mingled with the upper zone in a
• Minimizes completion cost and economic risk controlled manner to maximize production from both zones
- Single-trip upper completion simultaneously. By optimizing flow from both zones,
- Remote fluid loss device activation pressure drops from each individual zone is lower, while
- Compatible system design realizing maximum production—resulting in extended and
more incremental production throughout the life of the well.

Continuous Sealing Long Space-Out Travel Joint • Can be re-locked downhole if activated during the
The CS-LSOTJ is designed to unlock from the running running process
position and collapse in response to a non-shearing • Includes an emergency shear release feature
compressive load after landing a production seal assembly
into a sealbore packer below. After the LSOTJ collapses, Lower production tubing serves as a conduit for any type of
production tubing can be lowered with ease to land the intervention with sandface completions. Note extensions
subsea tubing hanger into the subsea tubing-head spool. It is above the CS-LSOTJ will stroke downward over the
important to note under these circumstances, a standard production seals and lower production tubing as the subsea
shearable travel joint could shear and collapse prematurely tubing hanger is lowered to the landing position.
while attempting to push the bottom seals through the subsea
Production Seals
blowout preventer (BOP) and wellhead. This could result in a
Production seals function by sealing into the upper PBR and
misrun of the completion string. The LSOTJ does not use
separate the lower zone from the upper zone. They maintain
shear pins and can be pushed through difficult entry points.
sealing integrity during the life of the well and serve as a
In addition to being critical to landing the production tubing,
conduit for any type of intervention with the lower zone.
the CS-LSOTJ performs the following functions: Length between seals must be less than the sealbore length to
• Serves as a safety function or shock absorber when ensure continual sealing integrity.
passing through the BOP or the liner top
Twin-Flow Absolute Isolation System (AIS)
• Serves as stroke adjustment between the two fixed points
The Twin-Flow AIS hydraulically actuated fluid-loss device
of the gravel-pack packer seals and subsea tubing hanger
serves as a fluid-loss device for the upper zone. Only after
• Designed such that lower-production tubing and seals production tubing-related equipment and the tubing hanger
can be relocked to the production tubing, so retrieving are landed will this device be opened.
can be accomplished in one trip instead of two
• Allows a tension and pressure test of gravel-pack packer Upper and Lower Zone Sand Control Completion
seals to verify production tubing has landed correctly These are typically dual zone FracPac™ completions.
Subsea
Tubing
Hanger
HF-1 Zonal Isolation
Production Packer
Gauges
Upper
DepthStar® ICV
Retrievable
Lower
Safety Valve
ICV
Production
Tubing Seal
Assembly
in Twin-Flow
CS-LSOTJ Receptacle
Upper
Sealbore Twin-Flow
AIS
CS-LSOTJ Lower
Zone
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Upper
Zone

Standalone Screen Systems
When properly executed, standalone screen systems provide PetroGuard Mesh DS screen maintains Halliburton's
highly reliable sand control with less operational standards of reliable filtration efficiency and quality in a cost-
complexity—offering a lower cost option when compared to effective design. The PetroGuard Advanced Mesh screen
gravel packing or other openhole completion strategies. brings leading-edge filtration technology to the upstream
industry. This unique technology is formed from a series of
Standalone screen completions are typically configured as custom-designed, diffusion-bonded surface filter layers to
both openhole and horizontal completions. After the give precise pore size control and provide the highest solids
reservoir section is drilled, a basepipe-deployed mechanical retention and plugging resistance possible.
filter sized to restrict solids production will be positioned
across the chosen intervals. More advanced standalone screen completions requiring
proactive borehole support can use the PetroGuard Swell
Halliburton offers an array of screen products designed to compliant sand screen system that combines the proven
meet any wellbore challenge and maximize well production technologies of mesh filtration and Swell Technology. This
while maintaining acceptable solids control levels. The combination delivers the screen to the sandface, providing
PetroGuard® screen family includes prepacked screens, wire- wellbore conformance and preventing and delaying sanding
wrap screens, mesh screens, and compliant screen systems all and solids production.
of which can be used as standalone screens.
Features
The wire-wrap screen family offers simple, reliable prepack • Direct wrap technology
and slip-on jacket technologies. The robust, fine-tuned • Single layer mesh screens
PetroGuard® Wrap product is a direct wrap solution that is
especially valuable in standalone screen completions with • No-weld technology
challenging well environments, trajectories, and borehole • Gradient pore technology
conditions where the screen system will be pushed to the • 360° conformance
limit without compromising filtration performance while in
deployment. Directly applying the wrap wires over the ribs Benefits
while mounted on the basepipe results in a tight fit, durable • Unconsolidated sands exclusion
screen assembly. Halliburton's proprietary gauge control and • Reliable and robust filtration technology
verification process functions in real time during the
• Maximum sand retention
wrapping operation, which allows for closer tolerance screen
gauge and reduced cost. • Maximum plugging resistance
• Maximum borehole support
Mesh screen products offer several filtration design options • Borehole instability and fines migration mitigation
including the PetroGuard Mesh product line. Featuring a
• Deployment in extended reach horizontals
multi-layered, single woven non-bonded layer, the
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EquiFlow® Inflow Control Technology
Horizontal sand control completions have become EquiFlow Adjustable Inflow Control Device
increasingly more attractive to operators looking to Today's reservoir challenges call for optimum completion
maximize reservoir contact and thus reduce drawdown. solutions, and since no two reservoirs are alike, having
Improvements in drilling technology have allowed for longer multiple options can be a significant plus. EquiFlow
well lengths which present new complexities and challenges Adjustable inflow control devices combine the inflow
in production/injection control. Differences in influx from balancing benefits as standard fixed ICDs with additional
the reservoir can result in premature water/gas flexibility to reconfigure the ICDs if required. Placement of
breakthrough, leaving valuable reserves in the ground. these ICDs is typically incorporated into the design phase of
EquiFlow® Inflow Control Technology is designed to improve a project. For applications where design flexibility is needed,
completion performance and efficiency by balancing inflow the EquiFlow adjustable ICD allows the operator to configure
across the sandface throughout the length of a completion. the device closer to the time of installation. It also helps
improve logistics and reduce delivery time.
EquiFlow® Inflow Control Devices EquiFlow Inject Inflow Control Device

Similar in approach to EquiFlow ICD for balancing inflow
In an EquiFlow inflow control device (ICD) completion, throughout the completion in producing wells, the EquiFlow
openhole packers are used to segregate the horizontal section Inject system balances the fluid injected into the formation in
into compartments or zones. Typical ICD applications injection wells. Water injectors frequently suffer from
include wells experiencing “heel-toe” effects, breakthrough of imbalanced placement of the injected fluid due to one or
water/gas, permeability differences, and water challenges in more of the zones accepting excessive injection rates and
high viscous oil reservoirs. By using EquiFlow inflow control volume. The primary reason for this is permeability
technology, the reservoir inflow from high productivity differences or thief zones along the wellbore. With
zones can be reduced while improving low productivity imbalances in the injection rates, problems can arise
zones and sweep efficiency. including ineffective reservoir drainage and breakthrough of
injected fluid into producers.
The EquiFlow ICD consists of an annular chamber on a
standard oilfield tubular and is considered a passive
technology. If a screen is required, the reservoir fluid is
produced from the formation, through the sand screen, and
into the flow chamber. The flow continues through a set of
nozzles, which creates a pressure drop and then into the pipe
through a set of ports. Nozzle quantity and ID are designed
to provide the pressure drop needed for optimum
completion efficiency. Simulation software is used prior to
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installation for optimum configuration of the EquiFlow ICD

with no need for specialized installation time.

EquiFlow® Autonomous Inflow Control Devices
The EquiFlow® autonomous inflow control device (AICD) Features
increases recoverable reserves and extends well production. • Easily configured for use in various applications
Using innovative dynamic fluid technology, the device can • Robust construction
differentiate between fluids flowing through it to maximize • Simulation software for optimum configuration
oil production.
• Operates autonomously
The EquiFlow AICD works like a passive ICD during oil • Contains no moving parts, electronics, or connections to
the surface
production, yet restricts the production of water and gas at
• Requires no intervention
breakthrough to minimize water/gas cuts dramatically. It
uses no moving parts, does not require downhole • Will cease flow restriction if unwanted fluid recedes
orientation, and uses the dynamic fluid properties to • Designs available to produce oil and restrict water or gas
direct flow. • Each device functions independently for precise
response to the reservoir
AICD technology employs an engineered system of flow
paths and channels to control fluid flow. Using the fluid Benefits
selector's output, the flow switch, or “fluid crossroad”, directs • Helps reduce water and gas production associated with
the majority of the selected fluid down one of two separate - Heel-toe effects
paths based on the fluid's properties. Finally, the fluid - Breakthrough of water/gas
restrictor restricts the flow of unwanted fluid (gas and/or - Permeability differences
water) from entering the wellbore, yet provides very little - High oil viscosity wells
restriction to the production of the desired fluid. • Helps increase productivity and recovery
• Increases reliability through design simplicity
The EquiFlow AICD is designed to be a simple, reliable, and • Minimizes undesired fluid production, helping reduce
cost-effective solution to the limitations of passive inflow associated costs and risks
control by maximizing reservoir performance, and • Delays onset of unwanted water/gas production
minimizing undesired fluid production.
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STPP™-GH Single-Trip Perf/Pack Completion System
The STPP™-GH single-trip perf/pack system provides cost-

effective, single-run completions that combine perforating
and frac packing a zone of interest in a single string.
With the STPP-GH system, the guns are detached from the
packer and screen assembly before perforation to eliminate
impact loads. After perforation, the auto-release gun hanger
mechanism allows the expended guns to drop to the bottom
of the well. After the well is perforated, the CHAMP® IV
packer is lowered and set below the perforations and the
Versa-Trieve® packer is set above the perforations. The
service tool is released from the Versa-Trieve® packer and
positioned for pumping operations.
The STPP-GH system can also be configured for multiple

perforating gun location options as well as screen options
including the CAPS™ screen. VCA
FracPac™
Packer
Features
• Auto-release gun hanger system
• Sand Control FracPac™ system technology
Lower
• Tubing-conveyed perforating technology ®
CHAMP IV
Sump Packer Closing
• Mechanical packer technology
Sleeve
• Eliminates mechanical shock of perforating
• Minimizes pressure shock Blank Pipe
Hydraulic and
• Well control operations achieved with a modified Release Screen
OMNI™ valve design
Benefits
• Combines multiple operations in a single trip
®
VannGun
• Flexible system allows performance of water pack,
Assembly
high-rate water pack, frac pack, slurry pack, or gravel
pack operations Auto Release
Gun Hanger
• Reduces rig time and associated costs
• Reduces safety and operational risks Lower
CHAMP IV
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• Minimizes fluid loss

Sump
• Maximizes net present value Packer
• Reduces well control risks STPP™-GH
Installation
• Reduces formation exposure
• Reduces debris management
• Higher rate of return

Through-Tubing Systems
Halliburton through-tubing systems are designed to be run Locator Hanger Method
on braided line, reeled tubing, or jointed pipe. They can be
set on bottom or located in landing nipples or tubing string. The locator hanger system is identical to the fluted hanger
Through-tubing systems are applicable for short, perforated system with the exception of the locator. Instead of a fluted
intervals. A squeeze pack is performed by pumping through hanger, a modified “S” holddown pump locator is used to
reeled tubing or jointed pipe. Existing production tubing can locate in an “S” landing nipple. The “S” holddown pump
be used, or a concentric string can be run. Systems are locator is modified to give additional fluid bypass.
available from 2 3/8-in. (60.33 mm) to 4-in. (101.60 mm)
tubing sizes.
Washdown Method
Features The washdown method uses a prepack with gravel pack
• Run on braided line, reeled tubing, or jointed pipe screen washed into place (applicable for both casing and
• Applicable for short, perforated intervals tubing). It is used in treating intervals with maximum lengths
• Available in 2 3/8 to 4-in. tubing sizes of 50 to 60 ft (15 to 18 m).
Benefits The washdown method consists of a lower jet shoe, screen,

• Can run existing production tubing or concentric string blank pipe, and hydraulic disconnect. Inside the screen and
blank pipe, an inner tube is spaced, running from the
• Can be set on bottom or located in landing nipples or hydraulic disconnect down to the shoe. The system is run on
tubing string coiled tubing.
Through-Tubing Circulating Sand Control System Concentric Screen Method

Through-tubing circulating tool assemblies are available for The concentric string completion is available for 2 7/8-in.
some tubing sizes and provide the means to perform a (73.03 mm) and larger tubing sizes. As depicted, a concentric
circulating gravel pack through-tubing with coiled tubing. tubing string is run back to surface. The annular area
provides a gas conduit for lift gas if required. The assembly
Packoff Method consists of a bull plug, screen, blank, and hookup nipple. This
illustration depicts the production mode with an overshot
The packoff method uses a through-tubing gravel pack and a reciprocation set GO™ packer.
screen with blank spacer pipe and packoff seal assembly. It
can be placed inside casing or existing gravel pack screen and
spaced out and packed off inside the production tubing. The
method is used when top of perforation is less than 100 ft
(30 m) below the end of production tubing.
Fluted Hanger Method

The assembly consists of a lower screen and blank pipe,
fluted hanger, stinger with “G” packoff element, and “G” slip
stop. Bow spring centralizers with stops are used to centralize
the screen in the casing. The assembly can be run on coiled
tubing or on wireline. The fluted hanger running assembly
consists of an overshot, a fluted hanger, and retrievable
receptacle plug.

G Slip G Slip Stop
Stop
G Packoff G Packoff
Fluted Hanger Locator Assembly
Bow Spring Bow Spring

Centralizers Centralizers
HAL11488
HAL11487
Fluted Locator
Hanger Hanger
GO™ Packer
Locking Mandrel
Overshot X® Landing
Nipple
Bow Spring Bow Spring

Centralizers Centralizers
HAL11489
HAL8387
Concentric X® Lock and

Screen Landing Nipple

Rigless FracPac™ System/High-Rate Water Pack
This system allows an operator to control sand production
across a lower zone via a gravel pack or FracPac™ system and
at the same time ensures the completion assembly above the
lower zone is optimized for a future through-tubing pack on
VTA Packer
an upper zone. The lower zone is packed as normal. If
necessary, a spacer assembly and upper Versa-Trieve® packer
are stung into the gravel pack Versa-Trieve packer and set.
When the operator decides to shut off production from the
lower zone and access the upper zone, a through-tubing
bridge plug is set in the blank pipe above the lower zone. The
upper zone is perforated. A dual-screen assembly (also
known as a vent screen) is placed across the upper zone, and
a high-rate water pack or a FracPac system treatment is
performed to place sand in the perforation tunnels and
around the screen assembly. Excess sand is washed clear of Future Through-Tubing
the upper screen using coiled tubing. The well can then be Assembly
placed on production.
Benefits
• Allows for control of sand production across a lower
zone using a gravel pack or FracPac system VTA Packer
• Ensures optimized completion assembly above the lower

zone for future through-tubing packing on an upper zone
Flapper
3 1/2-in. Blank
3 1/2-in. Screen
Bridge Plug
7 5/8-in. Casing
HAL8425

Single-Trip Screenless FracPac™ System
This system helps minimize fluid loss and save rig time while The Halliburton 180° phased FracPac™system guns are
allowing the operator to perforate and begin fracturing logged onto depth. The Christmas tree is nippled up.
operations on the same trip in the hole. The following Applying tubing pressure closes the auto-fill feature on the
assembly is run in the hole: Mirage plug and sets the packer. The packer can be tested
• TCP guns prior to firing the guns with annulus pressure. Pressure
cycles will dissolve the Mirage plug and fire the guns. The
• Automatic release guns will then drop into the rathole, allowing the operator
• Spacer tubing full access to the perforated interval. A FracPac system
• Mirage® plug operation with resin-coated sand can then be pumped to
• Permanent or retrievable packer with ACME top sub break through any near-wellbore damage and control
proppant flowback. Because of the 180° phasing of the
• Versa-Latch® locator with production seals FracPac system guns, the perforations will be oriented to
• Production tubing allow flow into the fracture, resulting in a more complete
Production Tubing packoff of the perforations with resin-coated sand. Any
excess sand can be washed out of the hole with a coiled
Versa-Latch® tubing unit.
Locator with
Production Seals Production Tubing
Hydraulic-Set Versa-Latch®
Perma-Series® Locator w/
Production Packer Production Seals
with Upper Sealbore
Hydraulic-Set
Mirage® Perma-Series®
Disappearing Production
Plug Packer w/ Upper
Sealbore
Spacer Tubing
Spacer Tubing
Automatic
Release
TCP Guns (fired)
Automatic Release
HAL8426
Set Packer,
Perforate Zone TCP Guns
(fired)
HAL8427
Guns Released,
Frac Pack, and Produce

VentPac AFSM Service
Vent screen completions are a reliable method of improving
workover and completion economics. With this method,
zones previously bypassed as uneconomical to complete may
now, in many cases, be effectively monetized.
Completions using VentPac AFSM service are, in some cases,

producing over 30 MMscfd compared to a maximum of
only 6 to 8 MMscfd from conventional vent screen
completions while maintaining mechanical integrity of the
completion. Halliburton’s exclusive Antifluidization®
service technology enhances pack conductivity and helps
control fines migration and pack plugging.
Wireline
Fishing Neck
Bow Spring
Centralizers
HAL12218
Vent
Screen

Features Job Example
Rate vs. Fluidization
• Enhanced conductivity and fines control 200
• Unmatched execution – Halliburton has installed more 180

Conventional Sand
successful high-rate completions than most service 160
companies 140
Percent of Failure
SM
VentPac AF LR
• Predictable production rate window 120
VentPac AF HR
VentPac AF MR
• Close, multiple stacked pays can be completed 100
independently if necessary 80
• Enhanced completion reliability 60
40
• Well suited for monobore and deepwater applications as
HAL12220
well as recompletions in high-rate, deepwater 20
applications 0
4000 8000 12000 16000 20000 24000 28000 32000 36000 40000
• Tailored to well conditions – Depending on flow velocity Rate (MMSCFD)

level and probability of proppant pack fluidization, one The graph is a sample analysis from a gas well in the Gulf of Mexico with
of several versions of VentPac AFSM service can be applied 90 ft of blank assembly in a well that was deviated 55° across the zone of
interest. The casing size was 7 in. and the blank size was 1.660 in. The
for an optimum completion graph plots the rate of the well’s producing relative to the fluidization point
(failure point). The graph shows the varying versions of the VentPac AF SM
system and the associated achievable maximum production rates.
Benefits
• Higher production rates while maintaining mechanical
integrity, resulting in enhanced reserves recovery,
accelerated cash flow, and improved completion NPV
• Helps reduce time exposure
• Helps provide higher production rates even with
incomplete blank section coverage
Gas Well (MMCFD)

Casing Size 2 6 8 10 15 20+
3 1/2 in. EHR
HR
MR
LR
9 5/8 in.
Oil Well (BOPD)

Casing Size 10 1000 2000 3000 3500+
3 1/2 in. EHR
HR
MR
LR
9 5/8 in.
HAL12219
Note: Not for engineering purposes.
Guidelines for choosing which version of VentPac AF SM service will help
provide an optimum completion.


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Downhole Tool Systems

Downhole Tool Systems

Downhole Tool Systems 2-1

Downhole Tool Systems

Downhole Tool Systems 2-3

ESTMZ Systems - Frac

2-4 Downhole Tool Systems

Downhole Tool Systems 2-5

2-6 Downhole Tool Systems

Red Zone® or Frac Crossover

Indicator Coupling ShurMAC™ Multi-Acting

MSJ Shear Joint Washpipe

ShurShot® Fluid Loss

Top Snap Locator

Run Set Weight-Down Squeeze

Downhole Tool Systems 2-7

Jobs are analyzed for optimum pumping rates and volumes.

The system incorporates the multi-position service tool with

*COSMOSFloWorks is a trademark of Structural Research and Analysis

2-8 Downhole Tool Systems

Red Zone® FracPac™ System Maximum Tool Ratings

5-in. 2.55 20 bbl/min 175,000 lb 20/40 (SG2.71) Ceramic

Downhole Tool Systems 2-9

2-10 Downhole Tool Systems

Packer Running and Circulating

Actuated Reverse Ball Check Valve - Open

Screen Plug Assembly Isolates

Downhole Tool Systems 2-11

Reversing Out Position

washpipe to prevent fluid escaping the annulus above the

2-12 Downhole Tool Systems

Weight-Down Reversing Out Producing

Downhole Tool Systems 2-13

Perforation operations for the upper zone are performed

Twin-Flow AIS assembly. This will allow production from

the upper zone.

2-14 Downhole Tool Systems

In an openhole tool system, the screen is freely suspended in

Specific openhole tool system designs exist for the shorter

See “Section 4 Screens” for screen-related options and

Downhole Tool Systems 2-15

Various weight-down system options exist in the different

2-16 Downhole Tool Systems

Short Weight-Down Packer and

Downhole Tool Systems 2-17

Washing Packer Setting Circulating

2-18 Downhole Tool Systems

Twin-Flow AIS System

Lower Zone Seal Assembly

Downhole Tool Systems 2-19

The service tool has also been designed to provide weight

• Reduces fluid loss potential and well control problems

2-20 Downhole Tool Systems

Setting the Packer

ROC Tool (Closed)

Treating Sleeve Weight-Down Collet

Downhole Tool Systems 2-21

With conventional multi-trip systems, the tools must be

The STMZ system is applicable when the zones have

A unique retrievable packoff assembly, located in the upper