The purpose of proppant is to provide a high conductivity pathway for hydrocarbons

The purpose of proppant is to provide a high conductivity pathway for hydrocarbons to flow from the reservoir to the well.  Proppant does this by preventing the fracture from closing due to the stress of the surrounding rock. The deeper a fracture, the more pressure there is in the surrounding rock trying to close the fracture.  If one where to use a low grade proppant such as brady or white sand at depths of 10,000+ ft as in the Bakken, the confining stress of the formation would crush the sand and turn it to powder and it would no longer have conductive properties to allow fluid flow.  By pumping a high density ceramic in a frac job (sand being the lowest strength - generally, resin coated silica sand being the intermediate strength, and ceramic and sintered bauxite proppants being the highest strength) a propped fracture will allow fluid flow even at extreme closure pressures.

Ceramic Proppants are used in the process of hydraulic fracturing to increase oil and gas production.

Ceramic proppants are used in the process of hydraulic fracturing to increase oil and gas production. With increased ROI, using Ceramic Proppants has huge economic benefit. In the process of hydraulic fracturing, fluids with great pressures are pumped down a well to create fractures in the hydrocarbon-bearing rock formation. Proppants, a granular formed material is transported in the fluid to fill this fracture to keep the fracture "propping" open after high-pressure pumping stops. The fracture filled with ceramic proppants creates a permeable channel through which the hydrocarbons can flow more freely. Ceramic Proppants are used in both oil and gas wells' exploration of low-permeability fracturing and in the construction of deep oil well fracking.

Ceramic proppants, also called hydraulic fracturing sand

Ceramic proppants, also called hydraulic fracturing sand, Oil fracturing proppant, ceramic sand, bauxite ceramic proppant, bauxite proppant, oil fracture proppant drilling proppant, high strength proppant, high-strength proppant, high conductivity proppant etc. Ceramic proppants are engineered to optimize conductivity in virtually any application. Using ceramic Proppants to provide high conductivity of oil and gas, to increase the oil and gas production output, as well as to extend the oil and gas wells' length of service.

Oil frac proppant is home to oil and gas well fracturing process is very important aspects.

The rapid development of the oil industry, and has been closely linked with the global macro-economic status. There are many companies rely on the oil, always concerned with the dynamics of oil, because oil is also a trend for the stock has a great influence. Oil as the world's most important raw materials, has become a speculative business goals. It can be seen, the oil's position in the global economy is important. While Oil fracturing proppant products as essential oil in auxiliary materials, has been widely used in many domestic and international oil exploration base.
Oil frac proppant is home to oil and gas well fracturing process is very important aspects. It fracturing process to increase oil and gas production rate and recovery.
Such cracks can prevent Proppant fast closing, maintaining hydraulic fractures propped high conductive medium to create an open and allow increased fracture flow capacity. The hydraulic fracturing proppant and chemical characteristics,  which greatly affect its efficiency. In the more suitable location, good proppant can make the oil industry has a good production and profitability, and for this reason, it is imperative to use the proper use of the product.

MAIDE Ceramics Company has worked for several years to develop improved, high crush proppants.

MAIDE Ceramics Company has worked for several years to develop improved, high crush proppants. A wide variety of materials weretested in the laboratory under simulated reservoir conditions. One material,sintered bauxite proppant particles, showed greatly improved properties particles,showed greatly improved properties over any material available in the past andit has been field tested to date in 12 wells--all deeper than 10,000 ft.

Ceramic proppants particles is a product with high fracture strength

Ceramic proppants particles is a product with high fracture strength, mainly used in oil well supported, to increase production of oil and gas, an environmentally friendly product. Ceramic proppant is the use of high-quality sintered bauxite and other raw materials, is a substitute for natural quartz sand, glass beads, metal balls and other low-strength proppants to increase oil and gas has a positive effect. When oil and gas exploration in deep, high pressure low permeability deposit closure after fracturing treatment, the hydrocarbon-bearing formation split, passage of oil and gas from the cracks formed in the collection out. Ceramic proppant material along with high-pressure solution is filled into the formation in rock fissures, cracks do not play a supporting closed due to stress lightweight proppant release effect, thereby maintaining high conductivity, so that oil and gas flow, increase production. Practice has proved that the use of ceramic proppant fracturing wells can increase production from 30 to 50%, but also to extend the service life of oil and gas wells.

Many of these deeper wells will require hydraulic fracturing treatments in order to produce at economic rates.

The shortage of natural gas in the U.S. has caused an increasing number of deep well completions over the past several years--a trend that will likelycontinue. Many of these deeper wells will require hydraulic fracturing treatments in order to produce at economic rates. To achieve successful fracturing results, a material having properties superior to sand is needed toprop open the hydraulic fractures created at the high earth stresses present indeep wells.Resin coated silica sand, the commonly used propping material, tends to crush atclosure stresses encountered in deep formations, producing fine particles orfragments that can drastically reduce fluid conductivity of the proppedfracture. propped fracture. Efforts to develop a proppant capable of bearinghigh stresses without excessive crushing have produced such materials as glassbeads, steel shot, and aluminum pellets. Glass beads have been usedcommercially for over ten years, but there is evidence indicating that thestrength of the glass in multilayers is greatly decreased in the presence ofbrine. Metallic materials are presence of brine. Metallic materials arecomparatively expensive and corrode, so their use has been very limited. Otherresearch has looked at deformable materials, such as nut shells, that will notcrush and will prop open a fracture when a partial layer is present. The use ofdeformable propping materials in partial monolayer propping materials inpartial monolayer concentrations appears to have decreased in recent years.