In recent years, the market has witnessed a substantial cost escalation of up to 40%, rendering many new well drilling projects economically unviable and making some marginal reserve projects unfeasible.

Consequently, there has been a tendency to opt for less robust technical solutions in primary sand control, leading to premature sand control failures. As a result, more sand is produced to the surface, necessitating more intensive and costly surface sand management, which increases operation expenditure while still achieving quality, health, safety, and environment objectives.

The SPE Workshop: Sustainable Sand Management Control and Solutions - Balancing Performance, Costs, and Environment will explore efforts to balance achieving high-performance sand control management solutions, upholding environmental responsibility, and adapting fit-for-purpose economic solutions in the current high drilling and completion cost environment. Discussion topics encompass economically low-cost sustainable sand control, surface management solutions, remedial through-tubing/retrofit techniques, and the importance of environmentally conscious practices within the oil and gas industry, including the utilisation of digitalisation for sustainable field management.