US 12,234,709 B2
Magnetic inflow control device to inhibit scale production in a wellbore
Michael Linley Fripp, Singapore (SG); Srividhya Sridhar, Houston, TX (US); and Peter Reid Maher, Lafayette, LA (US)
Assigned to Halliburton Energy Service, Inc., Houston, TX (US)
Filed by Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US)
Filed on Feb. 23, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/173,639.
Prior Publication US 2024/0287880 A1, Aug. 29, 2024
Int. Cl. E21B 43/12 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 43/12 (2013.01) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
10. A method comprising:
restricting, via a flow control device, a flow of fluid from a subsurface formation and into a tubular string positioned in a wellbore, wherein the flow control device is configured with one or more flow restrictors to increase a flow velocity of the fluid as the fluid flows through the flow control device; and
clustering dissolved ions within the flow of the fluid based on generating, via a magnetic assembly positioned at least partially around a circumference of a flow path downstream of an entrance of the one or more flow restrictors where the flow velocity is increased, a magnetohydrodynamic force in the fluid as the fluid flows through the flow control device.