Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC

Ncs Multistage Inc.

David Wages

Michael Werries

Doug Brunskill

Elliott Tuttle

Rio Whyte

Kurt Cooper

A wellbore material transfer system is disclosed, and comprises a downhole fluid conductor defining a downhole-conducting fluid passage, an uphole fluid conductor defining an uphole-conducting fluid passage, a flow controller for opening and closing the uphole-conducting fluid passage, and a completion disposed within a wellbore and defining a wellbore interval between the completion and the wellbore, the completion including selectively openable first and second flow communicators. While the flow communicators are open and the uphole-conducting fluid passage is closed, a subterranean formation zone may be fractured, and flow communication is absent, via the second flow communicator and the uphole-conducting fluid passage, between the wellbore interval and the surface. While the flow communicators and the uphole-conducting fluid passage are open, the wellbore interval may be gravel packed, and a solids-depleted fluid is conductible, via the second flow communicator and the uphole-conducting fluid passage, from the wellbore interval to the surface.

Systems and methods for producing hydrocarbon material from unconsolidated formations

A method for flowing a fluid from and/or to a subsurface formation includes disposing a main production tubular in a main borehole penetrating the subsurface formation, the main production tubular being coupled to a shunt assembly, the shunt assembly defining an opening oriented and biased in a desired direction for a lateral borehole penetrating the subsurface formation and having a shunt tube that bypasses the opening. The method also includes drilling the lateral borehole through the opening in the shunt assembly and installing a completion having a lateral production tubular coupled to a completion device in the lateral borehole through the opening. The method further incudes flowing the fluid from the subsurface formation to the shunt tube and/or from the shunt tube to the subsurface formation.

Alternate path for borehole junction

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