Salik

Local-sand-enabled flow-channel fracturing service

APPLICATIONS Salik* local-sand-enabled flow-channel With local sand from Salik service, the channels
■■ Consolidated rock fracturing treatments fracturing service uses locally available sand created using the HiWAY technique are less
■■ Single- and multistage, vertical and instead of proppant when fracturing. Using the prone to plugging, either by scale or fines
horizontal oil and gas wells HiWAY* flow-channel fracturing technique, migration, than a conventional proppant pack,
Salik service enhances well productivity by which improves long-term performance.
■■ Conventional and unconventional formations
propping open flow channels, and it reduces
■■ Formation temperatures from costs by replacing up to 50% of imported Reliability
140 to 350 degF [60 to 176.7 degC] proppant with local sand. Salik service has been deployed in more than
500 stages in eight countries to date.
BENEFITS Use of local sand
■■ Enhances production through infinite Salik service provides operators unprecedented
fracture conductivity and greater effective capability for total cost reduction by using local
contact area sand as a less-expensive proppant and improving
■■ Lowers risk of screenout supply chain. By eliminating the need to import
■■ Reduces well completion time with less proppant and clear customs inspections, the
propping material and water service also enhances overall materials logistics.
■■ Minimizes total well completion cost No conductivity losses
■■ Improves long-term performance due Advanced engineering helps to provide robust
to engineered flow channels’ stability channel structure even when non-API local sand
is used for fracturing operations, with no fracture
FEATURES conductivity damage caused by fines from
■■ Use of local sand instead of imported sand crushing.
proppant
■■ Longer effective fracture half-length The stability of the flow channels is maintained
by using a proprietary fiber that protects the
■■ Lower pressure along the fracture for higher Conventional Salik service
structure from surface to reservoir until the
reservoir pressure to the wellbore
fracture closes and the in situ stress takes over.
■■ Enhanced fluid and polymer recovery Salik service enables operators to replace more than 50%
Fracturing enabled by HiWAY technique of the ceramic proppant normally required for a fracturing
■■ Less fracture face damage job with inexpensive, locally sourced sand.
Salik service is deployed using the HiWAY
technique, which provides enhanced fracture
conductivity that contributes to well productivity.
With this technique, Salik service decreases
the likelihood of screenouts by reducing the
effective proppant concentration and pulsing the
proppant. The service also increases effective
fracture half-length due to improved gel cleanup,
particularly from the tip of the fracture.

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