Systems and methods for producing hydrocarbon material from unconsolidated formations

A wellbore completion component, defining a transition impeder, comprising:

• a housing;
• a completion component feature defining a completion component passage within the housing, the completion component feature configurable in a first configuration and a second configuration, wherein the transition impeder includes:
• a transition-impeding fluid passage;
• and
• a fluid disposed for flow within the transition-impeding fluid passage;
• and
• an impeder piston, disposed in force communication with a viscous fluid for urging the flow of the viscous fluid through the transition-impeding fluid passage, and displaceable relative to the housing along an axis that is parallel to a central longitudinal axis of the completion component passage,
• wherein:
• the flow of the fluid, through the transition-impeding fluid passage, is effected in response to the transitioning of the completion component feature from the first configuration to the second configuration;
• the transition impeder and the completion component feature are co-operatively configured such that resistance to flow, of the fluid through the transition-impeding fluid passage, impedes the transitioning of the completion component feature from the first configuration to the second configuration;
• the completion component feature is displaceable relative to the housing along an axis that is parallel to the central longitudinal axis of the completion component passage;
• the completion component feature and the impeder piston are configurable in a translatable configuration;
• and
• in the translatable configuration, the impeder piston is translatable with the completion component feature, along an axis that is parallel to the central longitudinal axis of the completion component passage, in response to urging of displacement of the completion component feature, relative to the housing, along an axis that is parallel to the central longitudinal axis of the completion component passage, with effect that the viscous fluid is urged to flow through the transition-impeding fluid passage.