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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2013
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Ryan Hartman, Northport, AL (US);
Mohan K. R. Panga, Novosibirsk, RU;
Bruno Drochon, Houston, TX (US);
John W. Still, Katy, TX (US);
Carlos Abad, Aberdeen, GB;
Marieliz Garcia-Lopez De Victoria, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Kevin W. England, Houston, TX (US);
Isaac Aviles, Sugar Land, TX (US);
SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Abstract
A storable composition for oilfield application including a slurry of a carrier fluid and a particulate blend made of proppant; the particulate blend comprising at least a first amount of particulates having a first average particle size between about 100 and 5000 μm and at least a second amount of particulates having a second average particle size between about three and twenty times smaller than the first average particle size; such that a packed volume fraction of the particulate blend exceeds 0.74 and the particulate blend volume is sufficient to substantially avoid settling of the particulate in the carrier fluid.