CARBO Ceramics Inc. unveiled KRYPTOSPHERE™, an ultra-conductive, ultra-high strength proppant engineered to maximize and sustain hydrocarbon flow at high closure stresses for the life of the well, at the 2013 SPE Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Developed in response to a request from a major operator in the Gulf of Mexico, the proppant is able to deliver more than twice the baseline conductivity of bauxite-based, high-strength proppants at 20,000 psi closure stresses.
“KRYPTOSPHERE will significantly improve overall fracture conductivity or space to flow resulting in more production, increased recoverable reserves and greater returns for the operator,” said Don Conkle, vice president, Marketing and Sales.
Unlike other proppants that have imperfections and irregular shapes and sizes that reduce conductivity and strength, KRYPTOSPHERE’s microstructure translates into a stronger, more spherical, more uniform, and smoother proppant that creates more space in the fracture for hydrocarbon flow, as well as a more uniform flow path.
Image: The new proppant (right) is an improvement over bauxite proppant.
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