A single-trip sand control technology engineered to optimize multizone well completions is now being deployed by Halliburton. The system targets high-complexity offshore and deepwater oil and gas operations where extending reservoir coverage efficiently is critical to project economics.

The Optimized Single-Trip Multi-Zone (OSTMZ) sand control system reduces rig time, lowers total cost of ownership for operators and safely improves well productivity as complexity increases. The system supports efficient completion operations and increases reservoir coverage in complex multizone wells.

By streamlining the completion architecture, the technology delivers full frac-pack functionality — integrating hydraulic fracturing and sand control gravel packing — while minimizing the mechanical spacing required between casing perforations. In a standard three-zone deepwater completion configuration, this integrated design reduces total completion time by more than eight days. Because the system bypasses conventional service-tool manipulation, the time savings scale progressively as the number of targeted zones increases. This reduction in operational days directly lowers total cost of ownership and minimizes personnel exposure on the rig floor.

While conventional sand-control service tools require high-pressure surface tests before and after treating each interval, these requirements are eliminated with the OSTMZ sand control system. This ensures consistent execution in high-pressure, high-temperature environments, translating to enhanced capital efficiency and stabilized initial well productivity.