Patent ID: 7699105

Claim:
A system for gravel packing a well bore, the system comprising: a production string comprising a sand screen; and a cross-over tool for communicating a particulate-laden slurry from an interior of a downhole work string to an exterior of the downhole work string, the tool comprising: an elongate tubular body having an upstream end and a downstream end, the body defining an interior, axial center bore open at the upstream end of the body to receive a flow of slurry; a discharge section of the body, the discharge section including at least one lateral slurry port extending through the body from the interior bore to an exterior surface of the body, the discharge section extending from an upstream end of the discharge section at an upstream edge of a farthest upstream one of the at least one lateral slurry port to a downstream end of the discharge section at a downstream edge of a farthest downstream one of the at least one lateral slurry port; and a first transverse distance measured from a central axis of the body to the exterior surface of the body at the upstream end of the discharge section is greater than a second transverse distance measured from the central axis of the body to the exterior surface of the body at the downstream end of the discharge section.