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  An Overview of Recent Advances in Viscoelastic Surfactant based Fracturing Fluid Technology

  By Neetha V. Thampi, Keka Ojha, G. Udayabhanu

  Abstract: High percentages of oil and gas wells are hydraulically fractured worldwide in order to make economically producible at an efficient production rate. Cross-linked polymer fluids are in use for decades to stimulate oil and gas wells. Even though these fluids exhibit exceptional viscosity, thermal stability, proppant transportability and fluid leak-off control; extensive formation damage by polymer residues demanded a clean fracturing fluid technology. New generation of fracturing fluids based upon …

  Published in Journal of Petroleum Engineering & Technology · Vol. 2, Issue 1-3, 2012 · pp. 11–25 Read article →