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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2014
Lubrizol Oilfield Solutions, Inc., Wickliffe, OH (US);
Rajesh K. Saini, Houston, TX (US);
Clayton S. Smith, Houston, TX (US);
Mathew M. Samuel, Houston, TX (US);
Kern L. Smith, Houston, TX (US);
Chih- Chau Hwang, Houston, TX (US);
Leonid Vigderman, Houston, TX (US);
Duane Treybig, Houston, TX (US);
Pratyush Singh, Houston, TX (US);
The Lubrizol Corporation, Wickliffe, OH (US);
Abstract
Methods for forming proppant pillars in a formation during formation fracturing include include periods of pumping a first fracturing fluid including a proppant and an aggregating composition including a reaction product of a phosphate compound or a plurality of phosphate and an amine, periods of pumping a second fracturing fluid excluding a proppant and an aggregating composition including a reaction product of a phosphate compound and periods of pumping a third fracturing fluid including an aggregating composition including a reaction product of a phosphate compound, where the pumping of the three fracturing fluids may be in any order and may involve continuous pumping, pulse pumping, or non-continuous pumping.