Wacker Chemie Ag

Arndt Schlosser

Sebastian Knoer

Daniel Calimente

Abdulmajid Hashemzadeh

Thomas Bastelberger

Stephan Karpfhammer

Sebastian Knör

Proppant particles coated with a resin system containing a reactive resin and an organopolysiloxane having at least three successive siloxy units and at least one pendent or terminal group which contains at least four atoms selected from C, N, P, O, and S, exhibit higher degrees of coating and decreased fracture and release of fines at high pressure, thus enhancing fracking performance.

Modified reactive resin compositions and use thereof for coating propping agents

Coated proppants useful in fracking operations in oil and gas production are coated with a novolac resin containing a linear or cyclic organopolysiloxane of specific composition. The coatings are more fracture resistant, thus producing less fines during use, resulting in longer production campaigns.

The invention relates to coated support means for fracking mining methods, containing an inorganic substrate material and a coating containing polymers of one or more ethylenically unsaturated monomers from the group containing vinyl esters of unbranched or branched alkyl carboxylic acids with 1 to 15 C atoms, methacrylic acid esters and acrylic acid esters of alcohols with 1 to 15 C atoms, vinyl aromatics, olefins, dienes and vinyl halides, characterised in that the polymers are obtained by means of radical-initiated polymerisation in an aqueous medium, wherein 0.5 to 20 wt. % of ethylenically unsaturated and silane group-containing monomers are copolymerised, in relation to the total weight of the monomers.

Coated proppants for fracking extraction methods

Proppants coated with a cured reactive resin composition containing 92-99.5 wt. % of a reactive resin and 0.5 to 8 wt. % of a silicone resin containing at least 5 wt. % of alkoxy groups and at least 20 mol percent of T and/or Q units, in liquid form, exhibit high freedom from fines generation, and are free flowing.

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