Patent 7428924 was granted and assigned to Schlumberger on September, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A technique is provided for completing a subterranean wellbore. A wellbore completion combines a distributed sensing system, such as a distributed temperature sensing system, with at least one flow control valve and a pumping system. The flow control valve is controllable without the need for intervention or with low-cost intervention.