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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2014
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Geza Horvath Szabo, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Mohan Kanaka Raju Panga, Katy, TX (US);
Sergey Semenov, Kurgan, RU;
Andrey Yakovlev, Houston, TX (US);
Maxim Yutkin, Novosibirsk, RU;
Karina Bagdasarova, Chekhov, RU;
SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for treating at least a portion of a subterranean formation. The method includes introducing a treatment fluid including a composite particle, which includes proppant incorporated into or attached to a swellable material and/or swellable materials, into a subterranean formation via a wellbore; and increasing the buoyancy of the composite particle including proppant by either mixing it with a treatment fluid or mixing it with a treatment fluid and triggering the swellable material and/or swellable materials to swell.