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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2018
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Philip D. Nguyen, Houston, TX (US);
Baidurja Ray, Jersey Village, TX (US);
Vishwajit Manajirao Ghatge, Katraj, IN;
Larry Steven Eoff, Porter, TX (US);
Christopher Austin Lewis, Houston, TX (US);
HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to oil and gas well proppant compositions and methods for enhancing the conductivity of a propped fracture formed during a hydraulic fracturing operation. The method introduces a micro-proppant slurry prepared with slickwater containing both a low-density and a conventional micro-proppant during injection of the pad fluid stages to prop the natural and induced microfractures open and then injecting a proppant slurry prepared with slickwater containing low-density proppant and conventional frac sand during proppant slurry stage to prop the dominant fractures or large branches, provide open flow paths to keep them connective with the wellbore.