Patent ID: 9567833
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: E21B

Claim:
1. A method of simultaneously producing a reservoir fluid from more than one zone of a subterranean formation comprising: (A) positioning a first flow rate regulator in a first interval of the wellbore, wherein the first flow rate regulator is part of a first sand control assembly, wherein the first sand control assembly comprises at least one sleeve assembly, wherein the first sand control assembly comprises a sand control screen, wherein the first flow rate regulator comprises a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, such that the reservoir fluid is capable of flowing through the flow rate regulator, wherein the at least one sleeve assembly further comprises a diffuser, wherein the diffuser is located abutting or adjacent to the fluid outlet of the first flow rate regulator; (B) positioning a second flow rate regulator in a second interval of the wellbore, wherein the second flow rate regulator is part of a second sand control assembly, wherein the second sand control assembly comprises at least one sleeve assembly, wherein the second flow rate regulator comprises a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, such that the reservoir fluid is capable of flowing through the flow rate regulator, wherein the at least one sleeve assembly further comprises a diffuser, wherein the diffuser is located abutting or adjacent to the fluid outlet of the first flow rate regulator; and (C) causing or allowing the reservoir fluid to simultaneously flow through the first and the second flow rate regulators into a tubing string, wherein the reservoir fluid is commingled into a single fluid stream within the tubing string.