S810 — Rod-shaped proppant

High conductivity proppant technology

Applications
■■ Hydraulic fracturing application in oil
and gas reservoir for stress less than
10,000 psi
■■ Tail-in for oil and gas wells with prop-
pant flowback issue

Benefits
■■ Significant enhancement of proppant
pack conductivity for better
well performance
■■ Integrated flowback protection
■■ Provides stable proppant pack during life
of the well
■■ Improved proppant pack cleanup for
longer effective fracture length
■■ No significant operational modification Normalized well performance compared to reservoir quality.

■■ No special shut-in time or flowback

considerations Enhanced well performance
For more than 30 years, spherical proppant has been used in the industry as a propping agent
Features in hydraulic fracturing to provide conductivity contrast against formations and enhance well
■■ Non-standard packing of inert rod- performance.
shaped propping agent provides high
conductivity performance S810 (rod-shaped proppant)—a new, revolutionary proppant technology—utilizes high-strength,
ceramic, rod-like material. The material has an average length of 2.75 mm and average diameter
■■ Compatible with all common natural
of 1.45 mm. It is applied as proppant material and provides significant performance benefits when
and ceramic proppants (including resin-
compared with common commercially available spherical proppants. The product increases
coated proppant)
fracture conductivity and leads to better well performance.
■■ Chemically inert and compatible with
any fracturing fluid The S810 offers superior proppant conductivity compared to common spherical proppant, which
eventually improves hydrocarbon delivery from formation to wellbore. With less pressure drop
inside fracture length, the S810 provides better cleanup after hydraulic treatment by a retained
conductivity increase, compared with the use of conventional spherical proppant.

The particle shape provides creation of a consolidated pack. This pack is highly resistant to the
driving forces that cause proppant flowback. Unlike resin-coated proppant (RCP), the S810 relies
on mechanical interference of the particles and not on chemical bonding, so it is chemically inert.
In addition, unlike any RCP, the S810 does not decrease the near wellbore conductivity. The S810
does not require special shut-in time or flowback considerations.
 S810 — Rod-shaped proppant
100 60,000
■ S810
90 ■ 12/18 ISP
50,000 ■ 12/18 ISP (resin-coated)
80 ■ 16/30 ISP

Baseline Fracture Conductivity, mDft

■ 20/40 Sand
70
Retained conductivity, %

40,000
60

50 30,000

40
20,000
30

20 10,000

10
0
0 0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 12,000
S810 12/20 ISP
Closure Stress, psi
Conductivity comparison between rod-shaped proppant (S810) and 12/20 ISP
ceramic proppant, using fluid with 30 lb/1,000 galUS guar polymer loading (no Comparison of long-term conductivity between S810 and common spherical
breaker added) and borate crosslinker at 4,000 psi closure stress. proppant at 2 lb/ft2, 250 degF.

Case study 0.06

S810 has been successfully pumped in Egypt at temperatures up to
0.05
190 degF using a borate crosslinked fluid system. In all jobs, S810
was tailed-in in a range of 30–70%. Two SPE papers, SPE15360 and 0.04
SPE140448, are generated from the field test. Based on production
PI/KH

evaluation, it is proven that S810 wells produce at higher efficiency. 0.03

The production data is normalized against reservoir quality to have 0.02
a fair comparison.
0.01

0.00
Offset 2-1 Offset 2-2 Offset 2-3 Offset 2-4
0.009
0.008
0.007
0.006
0.005
PI/KH

0.004
0.003
0.002
0.001
0.000
Offset 2-1 Offset 2-2 Offset 2-3 Offset 2-4
Normalized well performance compared to reservoir quality.

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