Electrically conductive proppant and methods for detecting, locating and characterizing the electrically conductive proppant
Abstract
Electrically conductive proppants and methods for detecting, locating, and characterizing same are provided. The electrically conductive proppant can include a substantially uniform coating of an electrically conductive material having a thickness of at least 500 nm. The method can include injecting a hydraulic fluid into a wellbore extending into a subterranean formation at a rate and pressure sufficient to open a fracture therein, injecting into the fracture a fluid containing the electrically conductive proppant, electrically energizing the earth at or near the fracture, and measuring three dimensional (x, y, and z) components of electric and magnetic field responses at a surface of the earth or in an adjacent wellbore.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Carbo Ceramics Inc., Houston, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1632463
- Patent Number(s):
- 10538695
- Application Number:
- 14/593,447
- Assignee:
- Carbo Ceramics Inc. (Houston, TX)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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E - FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS E21 - EARTH DRILLING E21B - EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING
C - CHEMISTRY C09 - DYES C09K - MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC11/01780
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 01/09/2015
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Cannan, Chad, Bartel, Lewis, Palisch, Terrence, and Aldridge, David. Electrically conductive proppant and methods for detecting, locating and characterizing the electrically conductive proppant. United States: N. p., 2020.
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