Introduction
CARBO has introduced FUSION, a proppant pack consolidation technology for deepwater injection and production wells, which is designed to create a bonded proppant pack with or without closure stress.
Technology Overview
FUSION technology has been developed to allow increased injection and production rates in deepwater fields, enabling pressure maintenance and increased ultimate recovery and ROI (return on investment).
FUSION aims to improve well productivity by enabling operators to create a high-integrity, high-permeability annular pack in the low compressive strength environment of the annulus that retains its integrity under high water injection rates. The technology features durable, ultra-high conductivity ceramic proppant with a proprietary resin coating, which enables controlled bonding of the proppant pack by using a unique chemical-activator. The chemical-activated bonding process forms a strong, flexible bond without compression, even in low temperature environments, to create a high integrity pack meant to withstand stress cycling to sustain long-term proppant pack integrity.
Interaction with other Technology
Permanently detectable CARBONRT inert tracer technology is manufactured into the substrate of every proppant grain, enabling proppant in the annulus to be detected (with a standard neutron logging tool) to evaluate pack placement and quality at any time during the life of the well.
