173 results about "Fracture treatment" patented technology

Methods and compositions useful for subterranean formation treatments, such as hydraulic fracturing treatments and sand control that include porous materials. Such porous materials may be selectively configured porous material particles manufactured and/or treated with selected glazing materials, coating materials and/or penetrating materials to have desired strength and/or apparent density to fit particular downhole conditions for well treating such as hydraulic fracturing treatments and sand control treatments. Porous materials may also be employed in selected combinations to optimize fracture or sand control performance, and/or may be employed as relatively lightweight materials in liquid carbon dioxide-based well treatment systems.

Disclosed are acid fracturing methods for subterranean siliceous formations employing a viscous dissolving fluid to create a permeable conduit that bypasses the near wellbore damage. The viscous dissolving fluids used according to the invention are acid-fracturing treatment fluids containing a dissolving agent viscosified with a material such as a viscoelastic surfactant, and the fluid is injected into a sandstone formation at a pressure sufficient to create a hydraulic fracture. Also, the viscous dissolving fluid leaks off into the faces of the fracture thus “stimulating” the formation. Hence when the hydraulic fracture has closed there is a part of the formation that has been effectively stimulated, creating a pathway for fluids to preferentially flow to the wellbore. The formation may then be flowed back to produce a substantial volume of the treatment fluid.

A method for stimulation of gas production from coal seams is described using a permeability modifier, such as a coal swelling agent, injected into the coal seams via a wellbore to reduce the permeability of the coal seams prior to a fracturing treatment.

A treatment fluid for use in a combined acidizing and proppant fracturing treatment, the treatment fluid comprising: (A) an emulsion comprising: (i) a continuous oil phase; (ii) an internal aqueous phase comprising: (a) water; and (b) a source of an acid; and (iii) an emulsifier; and (B) a proppant. A method of fracturing a treatment zone of a well, the method comprising the steps of: (I) forming a treatment fluid according to the invention; and (II) introducing the treatment fluid into the zone at a rate and pressure greater than the fracture gradient of the zone.

Method and apparatus for monitoring growth of fracture during hydraulic fracturing treatment of a ground formation. A series of tiltmeters are positioned at spaced apart tiltmeter stations at which tilt changes due to hydraulic fracturing treatment are measurable by those tiltmeters. Tilt measurements obtained from the tiltmeters at progressive times during the fracture treatment are compared with estimated tilt changes estimated from an assumed hydraulic fracturing propagation. Useful values for initially undetermined values of parameters of the model are derived using an inverse procedure. The data analysis may be performed in real time as the hydraulic treatment progresses using differing propagation models to determine a most probable model.

The present invention is directed to an improved thermoplastic material-coated particulate composition useful for hydraulic fracturing treatments, gravel packing for sand control or other well formation treatments and especially the related methods of its use and is particularly directed to using a thermoplastic material as part of a particulate composition in a method for enhancing the stabilization of and reducing particulate flowback and fines transport in a well formation.

Oil wells may be fracture treated on-site in order to stimulate production. Such fracture treatment may be performed using a portable blender tub to mix fracturing fluid, proppant, and dry chemical additive into an injection slurry. A mechanical conveyance device may be adjustably attached to the portable blender tub, so that in its first position it is stowed for transport, while in its second position it is deployed for operation. When deployed, the mechanical conveyance device may mechanically convey and meter dry chemical additive into the blender tub, allowing a handler to feed and meter dry chemical additive while standing on the ground. This allows for improved safety and efficiency in fracture treating a wellbore.

A method is given for diverting injected slickwater in a hydraulic fracturing treatment. The diversion fluid is preferably a substantially proppant free viscous fluid that causes a net pressure increase and plugging of some of the microfractures in the initial fracture system created, which induces formation of supplementary microfractures connected to the initial fracture network and in-creases the contact area with the formation rock. The method generates a greater fracture network complexity and thus a higher contact area with the reservoir during a single treatment cycle.

A hydraulic fracturing method is disclosed that includes designing a fracture treatment including a fluid pumping schedule to fracture a subterranean formation according to a design model that accounts for cumulative filter cake thickness, including polymer concentrated at the fracture surfaces, to provide a propped fracture width effectively greater than the cumulative filter cake thickness, and injecting fluids through a wellbore into the formation essentially according to the fluid pumping schedule of the fracture treatment design. A fracturing method is also disclosed that includes placing a high breaker loading in the filter cake. A composition is disclosed which comprises a fluid viscosified with a polymer and a fluid loss additive comprising a delayed breaker.

The invention discloses a drainage method of gas in a coal bed, and relates to the technical field of exploitation of coal mines and coal gas beds. By the drainage method, the gas can be rapidly and efficiently drained, the effect of coal-bed gas pressure can be lowered, and the safety of the coal mine operation is greatly improved. The technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the invention has lower cost, and manual work and energy consumption are saved. The drainage method provided by the invention comprises the following steps: drilling at least one horizontal well from the ground surface to the roof of the coal bed, wherein, each horizontal well has a drainage part positioned on the roof of the coal bed; carrying out fracture treatment on the drainage part of each horizontal well to form a crack which penetrates through the roof of the coal bed downwards and extends into the coal bed; and draining the gas in the coal bed by utilizing the crack.

The invention discloses injectable compound bone cement and a preparation method thereof. The invention further discloses a kit for preparing the injectable compound bone cement. The kit comprises solid powder and a curing liquid, wherein the solid powder comprises calcium phosphate bone cement powder and chitosan microspheres; and the curing liquid contains glycerophosphate. The injectable compound bone cement is prepared by uniformly mixing the solid power with the curing liquid, has superior scattering resistance, superior injection performance, rapid self-curing performance, high compressive strength and high biocompatibility, and can be used for preparing a biomedical material applied to bone defect reconstruction, bone fracture treatment and bone repair.

Embodiments presently disclosed generally relate to the treatment of spinal fractures, such as spinal compression fractures. In one embodiment, a method of treating a spinal fracture includes identifying a vertebra having an untreated fracture, coupling a first device to the spinous processes of the vertebra with the fracture and a vertebra positioned directly superior to the fractured vertebra, and coupling a second device to the spinous processes of the vertebra with the fracture and the vertebra directly inferior to the fractured vertebra.

A system is described that provides for the measurement and control of proppant concentration in a liquefied gas fluid stream utilizing a non-nuclear optical detection device such as a near-infrared (NIR), visible (Vis), and ultraviolet (UV) photometer/nephelometer to be used in the fracture treatment of subterranean hydrocarbon formations.

Discloses a three step process to stimulate well production of methane from coal seams, wherein step one provides for injection of a treating gas into a well bore intersecting a coal seam, step two includes a shut-in period and step three comprises the placement of a propped fracture treatment. In step one, the injection of the treating gas physically opens pre-existing paths of weakness in the coal. As the treating gas travels along these planes of weakness, it preferentially adsorbs onto the coal and displaces the methane. This displacement process induces shrinkage of the coal matrix, which further increases the size of the intervening existing fractures. The second step, or shut-in period, allows time for this gas exchange process to substantially complete, thereby maximizing the effect of matrix shrinkage and enhancement of the intervening fractures. The third step provides for placement of a propped fracture treatment into this enhanced fracture system. Propping of the enhanced fractures ensures that they remain open, even as removal of water and methane work to close the fractures by increasing effective stress within the coals. The result is a stimulated coal seam that maintains enhanced permeability during production operations.

The present invention relates to a low permeable thin-interbedding fractured interval layering method. Said method includes the following steps: (1) defining effective barrier bed; (2) making restraining barrier protection, adopting low-displacement variable-displacement and low thickener concentration fracture treatment; and (3) making separate layer fracturing treatment. Said method can utilize interbed property, interbed thickness and core intersection to make division of fractured interval and can make the layer whose restraining barrier and oil layer earth stress difference value is greater than 4 MPa and restraining barrier thickness is greater than 2 m implement separate layer fracturing treatment.