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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021

Filed:

Jun. 06, 2016
Applicant:

Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Geoffrey Wedell Gullickson, Denver, CO (US);

William Owen Alexander Ruhle, Denver, CO (US);

John Dean Stabenau, Littleton, CO (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 43/26 (2006.01); E21B 43/267 (2006.01); E21B 33/13 (2006.01); E21B 43/14 (2006.01); E21B 47/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 43/26 (2013.01); E21B 33/13 (2013.01); E21B 43/14 (2013.01); E21B 43/267 (2013.01); E21B 47/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of fracturing a subterranean formation to produce fluid from a reservoir through a wellbore includes flowing a treating fluid into the wellbore to create fractures in the formation, selectively flowing a flow constraint material (FCM) into the wellbore simultaneously with the treating fluid, pausing the flow of the FCM while maintaining the flow of the treating fluid, monitoring a parameter of the formation to determine whether the parameter is within a range, resuming the flow of the FCM when the parameter of the formation is out of the range, ceasing the flow of the FCM when the parameter of the formation is in the range, where a system strain increase is about 0.0003 or less when the parameter of the formation is in range, and where the flow of the flow constraint material partially constrains the treating fluid from entering at least one of the fractures.


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