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Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2018
Applicants:

Aramco Services Company, Houston, TX (US);

Research Foundation of the City University of New York, New York, NY (US);

Inventors:

Feng Liang, Cypress, TX (US);

Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Katy, TX (US);

Leiming Li, Sugar Land, TX (US);

B. Raghava Reddy, Pearland, TX (US);

George John, Edison, NJ (US);

Vidyasagar Adiyala, New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C09K 8/80 (2006.01); C09K 8/70 (2006.01); E21B 43/267 (2006.01); C09K 8/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C09K 8/805 (2013.01); C09K 8/70 (2013.01); E21B 43/267 (2013.01); C09K 8/607 (2013.01);
Abstract

Self-suspending proppants including proppant particles coated with a CO-philic coating are provided. The CO-philic coating may be lightly crosslinked and may have a physical structure that constrains COmolecules. Methods of making self-suspending proppants may include coating a proppant particle with a polymerizable precursor material of a CO-philic material and polymerizing the polymerizable precursor material to form a self-suspending proppant are also provided. Additionally, hydraulic fracturing fluids that may include a CO-based fluid and the self-suspending proppants and methods of treating subterranean formations by contacting a subterranean formation with hydraulic fracturing fluid and propagating at least one subterranean fracture are provided.


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