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AssigneeBaker Hughes, A Ge Company, LLC
InventorsD. V. Satyanarayana Gupta, Jimie DeVon Lemons, William D. Holcomb, Harold Dean Brannon
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A method of distributing proppant in a spatial arrangement throughout a created or enlarged fracture by pumping into a subterranean formation penetrated by a well multiple stages of fracturing fluid wherein a fluid laden with proppant is pumped into the well and a fluid substantially free of proppant is then pumped into the well; the fluid of the fluid laden with proppant and the fluid substantially free of proppant being the same. Vertically extending pillars are created within the formation. Fluid produced from the hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir is then flowed at least partially through channels between the vertically extending pillars.
A method of hydraulically fracturing a hydrocarbon-bearing formation with fluids which comprises:
A method of hydraulically fracturing a hydrocarbon-bearing subterranean formation which comprises:
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