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Title: Well proppants

Abstract

Deployable smart acoustic resonance particles have dense cores, compliant matrixes surrounding the cores and stiff outer shells surrounding the matrixes. The particles have mechanical stress sensitivities that provide unique band gap shifts when compressed. Groups of similar particles with similar stress sensitivities and similar band gap shifts are added at different times to hydraulic fluids, as circulated through wells with the fluid and pushed into fractures. A plural, sonic monopole well logging tool is lowered into the well to determine locations and depth of fractures and local pressures by distinct resonance of individual groups.

Inventors:
Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Oceanit Laboratories, Inc., Honolulu, HI (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1987255
Patent Number(s):
11613691
Application Number:
16/731,732
Assignee:
Oceanit Laboratories, Inc. (Honolulu, HI)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
C - CHEMISTRY C09 - DYES C09K - MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
E - FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS E21 - EARTH DRILLING E21B - EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING
DOE Contract Number:  
SC0017738
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 12/31/2019
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Citation Formats

Pollock, Jacob. Well proppants. United States: N. p., 2023. Web.
Pollock, Jacob. Well proppants. United States.
Pollock, Jacob. Tue . "Well proppants". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1987255.
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