Dual function proppants

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8763700
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13224726

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Proppants for use in fractured or gravel packed/frac packed oil and gas wells are provided with a contaminant removal component to remove one or more of the contaminants found in subterranean water/hydrocarbon from a production well. The water/hydrocarbon cleaning proppant solids may be used as discrete particles in a proppant formulation, as a coating on proppant solids in pores of a porous proppant solid or as part of the proppant's internal structure. The contaminant removal component removes contaminants, especially dissolved contaminants, in the subterranean water or hydrocarbon before the water/hydrocarbon leaves the well. For those contaminant removal components that can be regenerated, such as ion exchange resins, a measured quantity of an acidic regeneration solution can be injected into the fractured stratum for regeneration and recovered when the well resumes production.

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BANK OF AMERICA N A901 MAIN STREET 11TH FLOOR MAIL CODE TX1-492-11-23 DALLAS TX 75202

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
McCrary, Avis Lloyd Montgomery, US 27 1231
McDaniel, Robert Ray Cypress, US 35 670

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