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Current open-hole, gravel-packed, slotted-liner completions for wells drilled in unconsolidated and weakly consolidated sandstone are relatively expensive and result in greatly reduced operational flexibility of the well. Furthermore brighter idea for sand consolidation is to try to solve sand problem with positioning polymer as an adhesive material to consolidate the sand without loosing its permeability. Hopefully, this new idea would be able to decrease cost recovery and to enhance PI (production index). The scope of this research is to find the optimum composition of epoxy resin and furan, and also to compare the quality that will be given before and after treatment. The physical and chemical respon of sand will be monitored when treated by each of the resin or by the combination of both polymer. This method of sand control treatment based on the prior hypothesis where the polymers have an ability to bind the sand grain together, so it can strengthened the structure and decreasing the sand production. The tests of the polymer is done by adding each polymer in the core sample and perform tensile strength and permeability tests. By comparing the result, the most suitable and profitable way comes to core that added with combination of epoxy and furan resin where the production of sand decrease, the good permeability, long life time, and short curing time.