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AssigneeBaker Hughes Incorporated
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 reservoir which comprises:
A method of enhancing conductivity of a fracture within a reservoir having a relative permeability from about 1 nanodarcy to about 1 mD comprising sequentially pumping a fluid laden with proppant and a fluid substantially free of proppant into a well penetrated by the reservoir and establishing within the fracture periodically spaced formation pillars and conductive channels between the formation pillars wherein the fluid of the fluid laden with proppant and the fluid substantially free of proppant is the same.
A method of distributing proppant in a spatial arrangement throughout a created or enlarged fracture within a subterranean formation penetrated by a well, the method comprising:
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