Ultra high activity slurry for hydraulic fracturing
An oil-based slurry that includes oil, a suspension package, a dispersion agent, a surfactant, and a dry water-soluble polymer.
1. An oil-based slurry comprising:
oil, wherein the oil is a petroleum distillate;
a suspension package, wherein the suspension package is a linear styrenic block copolymer;
a dispersion agent, wherein the dispersion agent is poly(acrylic acid-co-methacryloxethyltrimethyl ammonium chloride-co-isopentenol polyoxyethylene ether);
a surfactant, wherein the surfactant is a combination of alcohol ethoxylates and sorbitan ester ethoxylates, and
a dry water-soluble polymer, wherein the dry water soluble synthetic polymer is a polyacrylamide-acrylate-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid terpolyme;
wherein the oil-based slurry comprises between 20% and 35% oil by weight of the oil based slurry and wherein the oil-based slurry comprises between 0.1% and 1% of the surfactant by weight of the oil-based slurry.
2. The oil-based slurry of claim 1 , wherein the oil-based slurry comprises between 0.10% and 5% of the dispersion agent by weight of the oil-based slurry.
3. The oil-based slurry of claim 1 , wherein the oil-based slurry comprises between 55% and 70% of the dry water-soluble polymer.
4. A slickwater fluid comprising the oil-based slurry of claim 1 .