PROPPANT PREPARATION METHOD AND PROPPANT Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: oil and gas production.

SUBSTANCE: proppant used in oil production involving hydraulic fracturing of formation contains ceramic granules coated with novolac resins supplemented by catalytic aqueous urotropin solution in organosilicon emulsion. Proppant preparation method comprises preparing granules and coating them. The latter operation is carried out as follows. Granules are heated to 150-160°C, dry novolac resin and catalytic urotropin solution are added at stirring in two equal portions with respect to the weight of resin and urotropin. When dropping temperature achieves 95-100°C, organosilicon emulsion is added provide following proportions of ingredients: 5.0-8.0% of novolac resin, 1.5-3.0% of 33% urotropin solution, 0.1-0.3% of organosilicon emulsion, and ceramic granules - the rest. Granules are finally cooled. Organosilicon emulsion is prepared at emulsion-to-water ratio 1:10.

EFFECT: increased strength of ceramic proppant and improved its quality due to resin coating applied with separating emulsion.

2 cl, 1 dwg, 1 tbl, 2 ex