Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hydraulic fracturing
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Application No.: US13167683Application Date: 2011-06-23
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Publication No.: US08701774B2Publication Date: 2014-04-22
- Inventor: William L. Johnson, Sr.
- Applicant: William L. Johnson, Sr.
- Applicant Address: US CO Denver
- Assignee: Ecopuro, LLC
- Current Assignee: Ecopuro, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CO Denver
- Agency: Fellers, Snider, Blankenship, Bailey & Tippens, P.C.
- Main IPC: C09K8/62
- IPC: C09K8/62 ; C09K8/68 ; C09K8/76 ; C09K8/80 ; C08K3/34 ; C08K3/40 ; E21B43/26

Abstract:
An improvement over known hydraulic fracturing fluids. Boundary layer kinetic mixing material is added to components of fracturing fluid wherein kinetic mixing material is a plurality of particles wherein at least 25% of particles are several types, i.e., having surface characteristics of thin walls, three dimensional wedge-like sharp blades, points, jagged bladelike surfaces, thin blade surfaces, three-dimensional blade shapes that may have shapes similar to a “Y”, “V” or “X” shape or other geometric shape, slightly curved thin walls having a shape similar to an egg shell shape, crushed hollow spheres, sharp bladelike features, 90° corners that are well defined, conglomerated protruding arms in various shapes, such as cylinders, rectangles, Y-shaped particles, X-shaped particles, octagons, pentagon, triangles, and diamonds. The resulting fluid exhibits improved dispersion of additives as well providing stabilization to a hydraulic fracture by reducing incidents of proppant grain column collapse and by reducing proppant flow back.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110272156A1 HYDRAULIC FRACTURING Public/Granted day:2011-11-10
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