A comprehensive review on proppant technologies

The main function of traditional proppants is to provide and maintain conductive fractures during well production where proppants should meet closure stress requirement and show resistance to diagenesis under downhole conditions. Many different proppants have been developed in the oil & gas indu...

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Main Authors: Feng Liang, Mohammed Sayed, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Frank F. Chang, Leiming Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2016-03-01
Series:Petroleum
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405656115000693