Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Enhanced propped fracture conductivity in subterranean wells
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Application No.: US16089936Application Date: 2016-06-23
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Publication No.: US11041111B2Publication Date: 2021-06-22
- Inventor: Philip D Nguyen , Loan K Vo , Matthew Lewis Lahman
- 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/US2016/039084 WO 20160623
- International Announcement: WO2017/222536 WO 20171228
- Main IPC: C09K8/68
- IPC: C09K8/68 ; C09K8/80 ; E21B43/267 ; C09K8/66 ; C09K8/40 ; C09K8/60 ; E21B21/00

Abstract:
A variety of systems, methods and compositions are disclosed, including, in one method, a method may comprise providing a proppant-free fracturing fluid; providing a proppant composition, wherein the proppant composition comprises proppant particulates and degradable thermoplastic particulates; introducing the proppant-free fracturing fluid into a subterranean formation at an injection rate above a fracture gradient to create or enhance at least one fracture in the subterranean formation; introducing the proppant composition into the at least one fracture; and allowing the proppant composition to form a proppant pack in the fracture, wherein the degradable thermoplastic particulates are degradable to generate voids in the proppant pack.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190106619A1 ENHANCED PROPPED FRACTURE CONDUCTIVITY IN SUBTERRANEAN WELLS Public/Granted day:2019-04-11
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