Fracturing - ULW Proppant
Improved Ultra-Lightweight Proppant Technology!

Trican’s new Ultra-Lightweight proppant (ULW) is designed for use in fracture simulation applications. The product represents a breakthrough in ULW proppant technology and is subject to ongoing performance improvements and optimization.

This superior ULW proppant can be used to provide excellent closure resistance in oil and gas reservoirs. Closure stresses of up to 40,000 kPa (6000 psi), at temperatures of up to 104?C (220 ?F) are within the performance range. The low specific gravity of ULW approaches that of water, allowing for excellent proppant distribution throughout the fracture network.

Advantages Beyond Conventional Proppants:

• Lightest proppant, for its strength, on the market - S.G. 1.06.
• Allows use of slickwater carrier fluids to minimize reservoir damage.
• Will not crush, chip, break, or otherwise generate migrating fines like other proppants.
• Perfectly smooth and spherical – at high closure stresses, proppant will deform into a smooth disk
• Non-abrasive – will not damage tubing or surface equipment during use. 

Technical Papers (pdf) ......................................................................................... Burst Collars for Multi-zone Completions in Horizontal Wellbores Acid-Soluble Cement for Unconventional Gas Completions A Novel Means of Proppant Consolidation Novel Self-Generating Acid Integration of Montney Microseismic Information into a Reservoir Simulator Improving Efficiency of Coiled Tubing Operations on Vankor Field Pre-Fracture Injection Tests Performed in the Brassey Field Polymer Reduction Leads to Increased Success Reverse Circulating Cement Technique for Subsurface Pipeline Increased Applications of Plastic Tubulars in O&G Prod & Injection Pre-job test Protocol for Cement Pulsation Development of OTF Frac Fluid Cement Pulsation Treatment in Wells Cement Pulsation to Control Gas Migration (SPE) Comparison of Three Different CO2 Energized Frac Fluids Frac Fluid Properties New Generation of Lightweight Cement A Comparison Between Foamed & Lightweight Cements (CADE) Cement Pulsation to Control Gas Migration (CADE) Improved Proppant Transport System for SlickWater Shale Fracturing Implications for Characterization of Unconventional Gas Reservoirs A Comparison Between Foamed & Lightweight Cements (CIPC) Slag Cementing Versus Conventional Cementing Proppant Flowback Control in Deviated Shallow Gas Wells Squeeze Cementing of Low Pressure Formations Development of a New Generation of Gas Control Cements Review of Dry Blending Techniques of Lightweight Cements Chemical Stimulation of Heavy Oil Wells

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