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Abstract
Hydraulic fracturing is increasingly used as one of the main powerful tools to bypass the formation damage and increase its productivity. One of the most critical problems that faces that treatment is the proppant flowback production which could lead to failures in surface and downhole equipment. Besides, it reduces severely the fracture width and consequently the fracture conductivity. The use of curable resin to be pumped with proppant or using the rod-shaped proppant could be a solution for controlling proppant flowback and creating more stable fractures.
Many models are designed for predicting the proppant flowback and measure the degree fracture stability. Semi-Mechanical model, Free Wedge model and Stimlab model are utilized in our study on more than 25 wells to predict proppant flowback.
After optimizing case studies on more than 50 wells and implementing prediction models, the study confirmed the effective factors controlling the proppant flowback that are the drag force, closure stress, critical speed, cyclic stress and fracture width. Also, assured that the applied techniques provide higher percentage of success in addition to that the optimized treatment size of rod-shaped proppant could be reduced to 20% of the total main treatment size and resin coating to 50% of treatment size and still provide significantly stable fractures and controlling proppant flowback.