Wednesday, February 24, 2016

ceramic proppant suppliers

It is a round shaped particle that is much better for fracturing of deep oil and also gas stratum with a lot of pressure. The rounder the better when it comes to withstanding higher amounts of pressure. This kind of proppant is also very good to make the conductivity go higher. When compared to other proppants, ceramic has a much smoother texture, higher fracturing hardness; it is acid proof and also alkali proof.Read more information about Ceramic Proppant

Monday, February 1, 2016

A fracturing proppant is a material that will keep an induced hydraulic fracture open

A fracturing proppant is a material that will keep an induced hydraulic fracture open,during or following a fracturing treatment,while the fracking fluid itself varies in composition depending on the type of fracturing used,and can be gel, foam or slickwater-based.In addition,there may be unconventional fracking fluids.Fluids make tradeoffs in such material properties as viscosity,where more viscous fluids can carry more concentrated proppant;the energy or pressure demands to maintain a certain flux pump rate that will conduct the proppant appropriately;pH, various rheological factors, among others.In addition, fluids may be used in low-volume well stimulation of high-permeability sandstone wells (20k to 80k gallons per well) to the high-volume operations such as shale gas and tight gas that use millions of gallons of water per well.