A gravel packing screen with an inflow control device and a bypass. A well
screen includes a flow restricting device for restricting inward flow
through the screen, and a bypass device for increasing a proportion of
the inward flow which passes through the flow restricting device, the
bypass device including a material which swells in response to contact
between the material and fluid in a well. A method of gravel packing a
well includes installing a screen in the well, the screen including a
flow restricting device which restricts flow through the screen, and a
bypass device for selectively permitting relatively unrestricted flow
through the screen; and actuating the bypass device in response to
contact between a material of the bypass device and fluid in the well,
thereby increasingly restricting flow through the screen. Flow through
the flow restricting device and flow through the bypass device may be in
parallel.