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Methods of creating high-porosity propped fractures using reticulated foam
   
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US Patent 7334636
Issued Date
February 26, 2008
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One embodiment of the prevent invention provides a method of creating a high porosity propped fracture comprising creating a slurry comprising a treatment fluid, proppant particulates, pieces of reticulated foam having cells, and an adhesive substance such that the adhesive substance at least partially coats the proppant particulates and such that the proppant particulates become substantially embedded within the cells of the reticulated foam; and, depositing at least a portion of the reticulated foam fragments having proppant particulates embedded therein in one or more fractures within a portion of a subterranean formation so as to form a high porosity propped fracture.
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Published
February 26, 2008
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11/053,280
Filed
February 8, 2005
US Classification
166/280.1  
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E21B   43/26   (20060101)  
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