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20130105157 | Hydraulic Fracturing Method | 05-02-2013 |
20140262264 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING FRACTURE CONDUCTIVITY - A method for treating a subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore, comprising: providing a treatment slurry comprising a carrying fluid, a solid particulate and an agglomerant; injecting the treatment slurry into a fracture to form a substantially uniformly distributed mixture of the solid particulate and the agglomerant; and transforming the substantially uniform mixture into areas that are rich in solid particulate and areas that are substantially free of solid particulate, wherein the solid particulate and the agglomerant have substantially dissimilar velocities in the fracture and wherein said transforming results from said substantially dissimilar velocities is provided. | 09-18-2014 |
20140345863 | ELECTROMAGNETICALLY ACTIVE SLURRIES AND METHODS - Electromagnetically active slurries comprising stabilized fluids and methods of using the stabilized, electromagnetically active slurries in fluid flow control and detection. Also, methods, fluids, equipment and/or systems for treating a subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore, relating to treatment fluids based on the stabilized, electromagnetically active slurries. | 11-27-2014 |
20150053403 | IN SITU CHANNELIZATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCREASING FRACTURE CONDUCTIVITY - A method and system for increasing fracture conductivity. A treatment slurry stage has a continuous first solid particulate concentration and a discontinuous anchorant concentration between anchorant-rich substages and anchorant-lean substages within the treatment slurry stage. | 02-26-2015 |
20150060069 | SWELLABLE BALL SEALERS - Swellable ball sealers comprising swellable material are described. A swellable ball sealer may be used as a diversion agent by being suspended in a fluid injected into a wellbore and swelling once seated on a perforation such that the swellable ball sealer adapts to the shape of a perforation opening on which the swellable ball sealer has seated. | 03-05-2015 |
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20140290943 | Stabilized Fluids In Well Treatment - Proppant pillar placement in a fracture with a stabilized slurry treatment fluid. A method of placing a proppant pack by injecting a well treatment fluid comprising proppant and a stabilized slurry, and a slurry destabilizing system to consolidate solids from the slurry, and placing the proppant in the fracture in a plurality of proppant clusters forming pillars spaced apart by fluid flow channels from the formation through the fracture toward the wellbore. Also, a system for implementing the method, and the propped fracture system obtained as a result of placing the proppant pack into the fracture according to the method. | 10-02-2014 |
20140290945 | METHODS OF ZONAL ISOLATION AND TREATMENT DIVERSION - Methods of treating a subterranean formation penetrated by a well bore, by providing a treatment fluid comprising a blend including a first amount of particulates having a first average particle size between about 3 mm and 2 cm and a second amount of particulates having a second average size between about 1.6 and 20 times smaller than the first average particle size or a second amount of flakes having a second average size up to 10 times smaller than the first average particle size; by introducing the treatment fluid into the well bore; and by creating a plug with the treatment fluid. | 10-02-2014 |
20150211343 | GAS FRACTURING METHOD AND SYSTEM - Gas fracturing methods and systems utilizing a gas treatment fluid, which may contain a dispersed phase of fluid loss control agent particles. Also, treatment fluids suitable for use in the methods and systems are disclosed. | 07-30-2015 |
20150211346 | FRACTURING METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Hybrid gas fracturing methods and systems utilizing an early stage gas treatment fluid, which may contain a dispersed phase of fluid loss control agent particles, followed by a proppant stage(s) to form a fracture system having a branched tip region and a propped region between the branched tip region and the wellbore. Also, treatment fluids suitable for use in the methods and systems are disclosed. | 07-30-2015 |
20150369028 | COMPOUND CLUSTER PLACEMENT IN FRACTURES - Compound cluster placement in fractures. A fracture treatment method includes forming propped regions having a larger coverage area than channels between the propped regions, and channelizing the propped regions in situ. Also disclosed are systems to treat a fracture interval and to produce reservoir fluids from a formation. | 12-24-2015 |
20150369029 | COMPOUND CLUSTER PLACEMENT IN FRACTURES - Proppant cluster placement in fractures with foamed carrying fluid. A formation treatment method includes injecting a treatment fluid stage, having a particulate-containing substage containing a self-agglomerating solid composition and a foamed carrying fluid, above a fracturing pressure, and alternating pulses of a pumping parameter to transform the self-agglomerating composition into a channelized solids pack, and closing the fracture. Also disclosed are methods of modeling a fracture treatment interval for such a method, and methods of treatment and systems to treat with such a treatment fluid stage, wherein solid particulate-rich substages are larger than the solid particulate-lean substages to form particulate-rich island regions, an interconnected network of open channel regions between the island regions and the island regions are channelized to form particulate clusters within the island regions separated from adjacent particulate clusters by open voids in the island regions. | 12-24-2015 |
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20120285692 | METHODS OF ZONAL ISOLATION AND TREATMENT DIVERSION - Methods of treating a subterranean formation penetrated by a well bore, by providing a treatment fluid comprising a blend including a first amount of particulates having a first average particle size between about 3 mm and 2 cm and a second amount of particulates having a second average size between about 1.6 and 20 times smaller than the first average particle size or a second amount of flakes having a second average size up to 10 times smaller than the first average particle size; by introducing the treatment fluid into the well bore; and by creating a plug with the treatment fluid. | 11-15-2012 |
20130032349 | Method Of Fracturing Multiple Zones Within A Well Using Propellant Pre-Fracturing - A method of fracturing multiple zones within a wellbore formed in a subterranean formation is carried out by forming flow-through passages in two or more zones within the wellbore that are spaced apart from each other along the wellbore. The flow-through passages are arranged into clusters, where the directions of all flow-through passages, which belong to the same cluster, are aligned within a single plane (cluster plane). At least one cluster of flow-through passages is formed in each zone. The clusters within each zone have characteristics different from those of other zones provided by orienting the cluster planes at different angles relative to principal in-situ stresses and by placing them into different locations along the wellbore in each of the two or more zones. A propellant pre-fracturing treatment is then performed in the two or more zones to create initial fractures (pre-fractures) in each of the two or more zones. The fracturing fluid in the fracturing treatment is provided at a pressure that is above the pre-fracture propagation pressure of one of the two or more zones to facilitate fracturing of said one of the two or more zones. The pressure of the fracturing fluid is below the pre-fracture propagation pressure of any other non-treated zones of the two or more zones. The isolating of the treated zone is then performed. The fracturing process is then repeated for at least one or more non-treated zones of the two or more zones. | 02-07-2013 |
20130032350 | Method Of Fracturing Multiple Zones Within A Well - A method of fracturing multiple zones within a wellbore formed in a subterranean formation is carried out by forming flow-through passages in two or more zones within the wellbore that are spaced apart from each other along the length of a portion of the wellbore. The flow-through passages within each zone have different characteristics provided by orienting the flow-through passages in directions in each of the two or more zones relative to a selected direction to provide differences in fracture initiation pressures within each of the two or more zones. A fracturing fluid is introduced into the wellbore in a fracturing treatment. The fracturing fluid in the fracturing treatment is provided at a pressure that is above the fracture initiation pressure of one of the two or more zones to facilitate fracturing of said one of two or more zones while remaining below the fracture initiation pressure of any other non-fractured zones of the two or more zones. The process is repeated for at least one or more non-fractured zones of the two or more zones. | 02-07-2013 |
20130327527 | Method to Enhance Fiber Bridging - A method of treating a geologic formation including injecting into a wellbore a high viscosity composition which comprises a base fluid wherein the base fluid has an initial viscosity of 100 cP or greater and which exhibits a decrease in viscosity upon exposure to a viscosity reducing agent, and fibers wherein the fibers exhibit flocking upon a decrease in the viscosity of the base fluid, and injecting into the wellbore a viscosity reducing agent wherein the viscosity reducing agent is injected into the wellbore with or separately from the high viscosity composition is provided. | 12-12-2013 |
20150240613 | METHOD OF FRACTURING MULTIPLE ZONES WITHIN A WELL USING PROPELLANT PRE-FRACTURING - A method of fracturing multiple zones within a wellbore formed in a subterranean formation is carried out by forming flow-through passages in two or more zones within the wellbore that are spaced apart from each other along the wellbore. The flow-through passages are arranged into clusters, where the directions of all flow-through passages, which belong to the same cluster, are aligned within a single plane (cluster plane). At least one cluster of flow-through passages is formed in each zone. The clusters within each zone have characteristics different from those of other zones provided by orienting the cluster planes at different angles relative to principal in-situ stresses and by placing them into different locations along the wellbore in each of the two or more zones. A propellant pre-fracturing treatment is then performed in the two or more zones to create initial fractures (pre-fractures) in each of the two or more zones. The fracturing fluid in the fracturing treatment is provided at a pressure that is above the pre-fracture propagation pressure of one of the two or more zones to facilitate fracturing of said one of the two or more zones. The pressure of the fracturing fluid is below the pre-fracture propagation pressure of any other non-treated zones of the two or more zones. The isolating of the treated zone is then performed. The fracturing process is then repeated for at least one or more non-treated zones of the two or more zones. | 08-27-2015 |
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20100214406 | Shape Measurement Of Specular Reflective Surface - A method of measuring a shape of a specular reflective surface is provided. A pattern displayed on a surface of a target positioned at a target plane is produced from a specular reflective surface positioned at a measurement plane. An image of the reflection is recorded at an imaging plane. Positions of a plurality of points on the specular reflective surface relative to the imaging plane are determined. A first relation between feature positions on the image of the reflection and feature positions on the pattern is determined. The shape of the specular reflective surface is determined from a second relation involving a surface profile of the specular reflective surface and the first relation using the positions of the plurality of points as an initial condition. | 08-26-2010 |
20100277748 | Method and System for Measuring Relative Positions Of A Specular Reflection Surface - A method for measuring relative positions of a specular reflective surface of an object along a measurement line is provided. The method includes converging at least one converging light beam at a nominal position on the measurement line and forming a reflected beam from the specular reflection surface. An image of the reflected beam is recorded at a detector plane. A position of the image of the reflected beam on the detector plane is determined and converted to a displacement of the specular reflection surface from the nominal position along the measurement line. A system for carrying out the method is also provided. | 11-04-2010 |
20100291380 | METHODS OF MAKING AN ARTICLE OF SEMICONDUCTING MATERIAL ON A MOLD COMPRISING PARTICLES OF A SEMICONDUCTING MATERIAL - The invention relates to methods of making articles of semiconducting material and semiconducting material articles formed thereby, such as articles of semiconducting material that may be useful in making photovoltaic cells. | 11-18-2010 |
20120127487 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR MEASURING THE THICKNESS OF GLASS SUBSTRATES - Methods and apparatuses for determining a thickness of a glass substrate are disclosed. The method includes conveying the glass substrate past an optical measurement head and determining a measurement separation distance d | 05-24-2012 |
20120129293 | METHODS OF MAKING AN UNSUPPORTED ARTICLE OF A SEMICONDUCTING MATERIAL USING THERMALLY ACTIVE MOLDS - The invention relates to methods of making unsupported articles of semiconducting material using thermally active molds having an external surface temperature, T | 05-24-2012 |
20130070087 | SHAPE MEASUREMENT OF SPECULAR REFLECTIVE SURFACE - A method of measuring a shape of a specular reflective surface is provided. A pattern displayed on a surface of a target positioned at a target plane is produced from a specular reflective surface positioned at a measurement plane. An image of the reflection is recorded at an imaging plane. Positions of a plurality of points on the specular reflective surface relative to the imaging plane are determined. A first relation between feature positions on the image of the reflection and feature positions on the pattern is determined. The shape of the specular reflective surface is determined from a second relation involving a surface profile of the specular reflective surface and the first relation using the positions of the plurality of points as an initial condition. | 03-21-2013 |