Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods for forming proppant-free channels in proppant packs in subterranean formation fractures
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Application No.: US13926141Application Date: 2013-06-25
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Publication No.: US09657560B2Publication Date: 2017-05-23
- Inventor: Philip D. Nguyen , Max L. Phillippi
- 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: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Main IPC: E21B43/267
- IPC: E21B43/267 ; C09K8/80

Abstract:
Methods of treating a fracture in a subterranean formation including providing a proppant-free fluid comprising a first gelling agent; providing a proppant fluid comprising a second gelling agent and proppant aggregates, wherein the proppant-free fluid and the proppant fluid are substantially immiscible; continuously pumping the proppant-free fluid into the subterranean formation; continuously pumping the proppant fluid into the subterranean formation, wherein the proppant-free fluid and the proppant fluid are present simultaneously in a portion of the subterranean formation but remain immiscible; placing the proppant aggregates into a portion of the fracture in the subterranean formation so as to form a proppant pack having proppant-free channels therein.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140374093A1 Methods for Forming Proppant-Free Channels in Proppant Packs in Subterranean Formation Fractures Public/Granted day:2014-12-25
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