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CARBOAIR’s high transport proppant family represents a breakthrough in proppant technology,
engineered to enhance well performance by improving proppant transport and distribution in hydraulic
fractures.

High-Transport Proppants
High-Transport Proppants

Designed with a unique low-density structure, CARBOAIR proppants reduce settling rates, ensuring more even distribution and increased fracture conductivity.

This innovation leads to optimized proppant placement, allowing operators to achieve greater reservoir contact and increased production efficiency. Whether used in challenging or conventional environments, CARBOAIR technologies deliver superior performance while minimizing operational costs.

The innovative CARBOAIR proppant technology significantly reduces settling velocity compared to traditional sand in hydraulic fracturing fluids. Due to its low-density structure, CARBOAIR proppants remain suspended in the fluid for longer, ensuring better proppant transport and even distribution throughout the fracture network. In contrast, sand, being denser, settles more quickly, leading to uneven proppant placement and reduced fracture conductivity. The slower settling of CARBOAIR enables enhanced reservoir contact and greater well productivity, making it ideal for optimizing hydraulic fracturing operations.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Everything You
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  • What are CARBO High Transport proppants?

    CARBOAIR and KRYPTOAIR are CARBO High Transport proppants. With and ASG of 2.0 and 1.6 respectively they are made to prioritize placement for horizontal well gravel packing where proppant transport is critical.

  • When should CARBOAIR and KRYPTOAIR be applied for hydraulic fracturing?

    CARBOAIR and KRYPTOAIR are used for unconventional well fracturing enhanced proppant transport is critical. They will increase effective fracture contact by reaching further into the formation and having better frac height coverage due to their better transport and lower settling. The resulting increased reservoir contact yields enhanced productivity and EUR.

    CARBOAIR and KRYPTOAIR technologies also require less proppant mass to achieve the same propped fracture volume as conventional proppant due to their lower density.

    The low settling rate and better transport also mean that fracturing gel concentrations can be reduced or eliminated to avoid gel damage and improve clean-up to further reduce stimulation treatment costs.

  • When should CARBOAIR and KRYPTOAIR be applied for gravel packing?

    The excellent proppant transport characteristics of CARBOAIR and KRYPTOAIR enable lower fluid viscosity and pump rates to be used. This allows efficient pack placement and the full packing of the annulus in longer laterals while avoiding fracturing the formation. The reduced fluid viscosity and pump rates are critical in wells with low frac pressure and/or a low working window between frac pressure and formation pressure. These conditions are typical in many shallow unconsolidated formations that require gravel packing for sand control. Example cases can be reviewed in papers SPE-200618 and SPE-206387.