Enhance the performance of the resin technology.
Improve the conductivity of the resin-coated proppants.

Hydraulic fracturing is a technique used in gas and oil wells to increase the permeability of zones to enhance production. It is a standard practice used today as wells get older and permeability decreases or new wells are being drilled in less permeable formations. The process includes creating a fracture, or fissure, in low permeable zones, filling the fracture with proppants which pack and hold the fractures open all yielding an enhanced permeable pathway to the wellbore for the oil or gas.

As new proppants develop, resin-coated proppants continue to evolve and become more specialized to specific wells and the geological conditions downhole. The resin technology is also being engineered to meet the needs of deeper wells which translate to higher pressures and temperature environmental conditions that the proppant must be able to withstand.

Dow Corning provides silicon based technology that can enhance the performance of the resin technology used in proppants with targeted benefits in adhesion of the resin, compressive strength enhancement, as well as processing aids to improve flow and anticaking performance. We supply a wide range product with different functionalities to address the needs of our customers.

Key Advantages

Dow Corning Proppants additives can enhance the performance of a resin-coated proppant.

• Increase to compression strength of resin and formation
• Compatibility with many resinous matrix
• Improve adhesion between coating and neat proppant
• Lubricity / Anticaking