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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2015
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Philip D. Nguyen, Houston, TX (US);
Denise Benoit, Houston, TX (US);
Gladys Rocio Montenegro-Galindo, Kingwood, TX (US);
Yuming Yang, Houston, TX (US);
Zheng Lu, Kingwood, TX (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods including pumping a fracturing fluid into a subterranean formation through an annulus between the subterranean formation and a pipe conveyance at a rate above a fracture gradient of the subterranean formation to create and/or open at least one fracture in the subterranean formation; continuously pumping a proppant-free fluid into the subterranean formation through the annulus at a first rate to extend the open fracture; continuously pumping a proppant fluid through an interior of the pipe conveyance and out the exit of the interior of the pipe conveyance at a second rate that is less than the first rate; and placing the proppant particulates into a portion of a fracture in the subterranean formation so as to form a proppant pack having proppant-free channels therein.