Fracturing fluid comprised of components sourced solely from the food industry provides superior proppant transport

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages 3775-3782

  Loveless, David ^a   Holtsclaw, Jeremy ^a   Saini, Rajesh ^a   Harris, Phil ^a   Fleming, Jeff ^a  

^a HALLIBURTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURING FLUIDS; GELATION; OSCILLATING FLOW; PROPPANTS; SHEAR FLOW; TESTING;

CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS; COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION; FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTES; PROPPANT TRANSPORTS; REGULATORY BODIES; SMALL-AMPLITUDE OSCILLATIONS; STEADY SHEAR VISCOSITY; VISCOELASTIC SURFACTANTS;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 84856751853     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/147206-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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