Method for making lightweight proppant for oil and gas wells

Details Method for making lightweight proppant for oil and gas wells Method for making lightweight proppant for oil and gas wells

1990-02-21

1990-12-11

Group, Karl

Compositions: ceramic

Ceramic compositions

Refractory

501127, 501133, 501144, 166280, C04B 3510

Patent

active

049771167

ABSTRACT:
A lightweight oil and gas well proppant made by simultaneously mixing and compacting a mixture of kaolin clay which has been calcined at a temperature low enough to prevent the formation of mullite and crystobalities to an LOI of 12 or less when tested at 1400.degree. C., and amorphous to microcrystalline silica both of which have been milled to an average agglomerated particle size of 7 microns or less to form green pellets, and then drying, screening and sintering the pellets to form proppant pellets having a specific gravity of 2.7 or less, the proppant having a conductivity of at least 3,000 millidarci-feet as measured by the StimLab Technique after 50 hours at 8,000 psi and 275.degree. F., in the presence of deoxygenated aqueous 2% solution of KCl using sandstone shims.

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