**6. Patents**

One of the basic elements of this work is a computer program written by the authors "A program for calculating stability criteria and rupture pressures during the operation of wells complicated by sand occurrence" (RU 2020611693).

**Author Contributions:** D.T.—General expertise and lab tests designing; M.K.—Field data gathering, analysis and modeling; I.S.—Field data analysis; M.G.—Modeling, lab tests designing and performing of the experiments. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** The research was performed at the expense of the subsidy for the state assignment in the field of scientific activity for 2021 № FSRW-2020-0014.

**Institutional Review Board Statement:** Not applicable.

**Informed Consent Statement:** Not applicable.

**Data Availability Statement:** All data included in the article are available for public usage.

**Acknowledgments:** We would like to acknowledge the Saint Petersburg Mining University for the opportunity to work with their equipment and perform experiments and allowing us to use the Research Equipment Sharing Center of the Mining University for probe analysis for the PSD curves.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
