Lightweight oil and gas well proppants and methods for making an

Details Lightweight oil and gas well proppants and methods for making an Lightweight oil and gas well proppants and methods for making an

1989-01-17

1990-05-01

Bell, Mark L.

Compositions: ceramic

Ceramic compositions

Refractory

501127, 501133, 501144, 166280, C04B 3510

Patent

active

049218212

ABSTRACT:
A lightweight oil and gas well proppant made by simultaneously mixing and compacting a milled calcined kaolin clay powder to form green pellets and then drying, screening and sintering the pellets to form proppant pellets having a specific gravity of 3.0 or less and a conductivity of at least 4,200 millidarci-feet and preferably at least 5,100 md-ft as measured by the Stim-Lab method after 50 hours at 8,000 psi and 275.degree. F. in the presence of deoxygenated aqueous 2% solution of KCl.

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