Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vertical proppant suspension in hydraulic fractures
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Application No.: US15577513Application Date: 2015-06-30
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Publication No.: US10577536B2Publication Date: 2020-03-03
- Inventor: Prashant D. Chopade , Dipti Singh , Travis Hope Larsen , Philip D. Nguyen
- Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston
- Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston
- Agency: C. Tumey Law Group PLLC
- Agent Thomas Rooney
- International Application: PCT/US2015/038628 WO 20150630
- International Announcement: WO2017/003464 WO 20170105
- Main IPC: E21B43/267
- IPC: E21B43/267 ; C09K8/80 ; C09K8/60

Abstract:
A method of treating in a subterranean formation including combining an aqueous base fluid, an oil based fluid, a hydrophobic proppant, and a non-hydrophobic proppant to form an immiscible fluid system; and introducing the immiscible fluid system into the subterranean formation. A method of treating includes combining an aqueous base fluid, an oil based fluid, a hydrophobic proppant, and a non-hydrophobic proppant to form an immiscible fluid system; introducing the immiscible fluid system into a fracture in the formation; allowing the immiscible fluid system to separate into at least two separate phases, wherein the oil based fluid and hydrophobic proppant to form proppant aggregates and the aqueous based fluid to act as a spacer fluid surrounding at least a portion of the proppant aggregates; and removing the spacer fluid from the fracture during flowback stage or well production to form proppant-free channels between proppant aggregates.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180134948A1 Improved Vertical Proppant Suspension in Hydraulic Fractures Public/Granted day:2018-05-17
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