Patent ID: 8096358

Claim:
A method of completing a highly deviated well bore oriented between 75 degrees and 90 degrees off vertical in a subterranean formation, the method comprising the steps of: (a) determining a planned settled height of a sand plug that does not fill an entire vertical span of the well bore; (b) perforating a first zone in the subterranean formation adjacent a first section of the well bore by injecting a pressurized fluid through a hydrajetting tool into the subterranean formation, so as to form one or more perforation tunnels only below the planned settled height of the sand plug, wherein the hydrajetting tool is oriented so as to form the one or more perforation tunnels only below the planned settled height of the sand plug in the first section; (c) initiating one or more fractures in the first zone of the subterranean formation by injecting a fracturing fluid into the one or more perforation tunnels through the hydrajetting tool; (d) filling the first section with a sand plug up to the planned settled height that does not fill an entire vertical span of the well bore; and (e) moving the hydrajetting tool to a second section adjacent a second zone of the well bore, wherein the second zone is upstream from the first zone.