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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2001
Travis T. Hailey, Jr., Sugar Land, TX (US);
Colby Munro Ross, Carrollton, TX (US);
Robert Lester Thurman, Carrollton, TX (US);
Robert Craig Hammett, Garland, TX (US);
David Leslie Lord, Marlow, OK (US);
Imre I. Gazda, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for gravel packing a production interval ( ) of a wellbore ( ) comprises first and second sand control screen assemblies ( ) connected downhole of a packer assembly ( ) and a cross-over assembly ( ) that provides a communication path ( ) downhole of the packer assembly ( ) for a gravel packing fluid and a communication path ( ) uphole of the packer assembly ( ) for return fluids. A wash pipe assembly ( ) extends into the first and second sand control screen assemblies ( ) forming an annulus ( ) therebetween. A valve ( ) is positioned within the wash pipe assembly ( ) in a location between the first and second sand control screen assemblies ( ). The valve ( ) is actuatable from a closed position to an open position when the beta wave ( ) is proximate the location of the valve ( ).