Patent ID: 8245782

Claim:
A method of performing sand-control in a wellbore, the method comprising: forming a sand-control tool string comprising multiple pairs of flow port assemblies and screen assemblies, and multiple packers that are settable to define different zones in a wellbore; using a rig comprising a drill string to run the sand-control tool string into the wellbore; attaching a tubing string to an end of the sand-control tool string; after the sand-control tool string has been run into the wellbore, setting the packers to define the different zones in the wellbore with a first flow port assembly and first sand screen assembly in a first zone and a second flow port assembly and second sand screen assembly in a second zone; moving the rig from the wellsite after setting the packers; after moving the rig, remotely selectively activating the flow port assemblies riglessly without the presence of the rig at the wellsite to perform selective gravel packing with respect to the first zone and the second zone, wherein the gravel packing with respect to the plural zones after setting the packers is performed without the presence of the rig at the wellsite and without moving the first flow port assembly and first screen assembly from the first zone to the second zone and without moving the second flow port assembly and second screen assembly from the second zone to the first zone, and wherein performing gravel packing with respect to the first zone and the second zone includes flowing a gravel slurry from the earth surface of the wellbore through the tubing string and to the corresponding zone through the corresponding activated flow port assembly.