Petroleum Reservoir Evaluation and Development >
2020 , Vol. 10 >Issue 2: 121 - 127
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13809/j.cnki.cn32-1825/te.2020.02.021
Experimental study on a new type of self-propping fracturing fluid
Received date: 2019-07-09
Online published: 2020-04-28
Hydraulic fracturing is an important technical means for stimulation and transformation of oil and gas reservoirs, and has been widely used in the production of major oil fields at home and abroad. After studying a large number of literature research on the fracturing fluid system, it is found that various improvements of the current fracturing fluid system are mainly around “carrying sand”. However, in this paper, a new type of self-supporting fracturing fluid system is innovatively put forward, which completely gets rid of the concept of "carrying sand". In the process of fracturing fluid pumping, there is no solid proppant at all, but the fracturing fluid is combined with the proppant as a whole. When the fluid reaches the target layer, it is affected by the formation temperature and transformed from liquid phase to solid-state to prop up the fracturing fractures. The obtained self-supporting fracturing fluid system can form supporting solids with certain sphericity and strength at 85 ℃ and in 30 minutes. The upper limit of liquid system viscosity is 45.58 mPa·s, bringing the system good injectivity and stability. The density of the solid-state proppant is 1.07 g/cm3, the separation coefficient is 1.41, the main particle size range is 20~40 and 40~70 mesh, and the crushing rate is 4.7 % and 8.75 %, respectively.
Key words: hydraulic fracturing; fracturing fluid; proppants; self-propping; phase change
Liqiang ZHAO , Yinxin CHEN , Pingli LIU , Nianyin LI , Zhifeng LUO , Juan DU . Experimental study on a new type of self-propping fracturing fluid[J]. Petroleum Reservoir Evaluation and Development, 2020 , 10(2) : 121 -127 . DOI: 10.13809/j.cnki.cn32-1825/te.2020.02.021
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