Oil ceramic proppant fracturing technology advances situation is excellent

In recent years, the U.S.   shale gas   development success, not only triggered a global shale gas resources exploration and development boom, but also in China, many small manufacturing enterprises to create good business opportunities.

In the past three years, Chinese companies in their ability to support good manufacturing  ceramic proppant ，  gradually replacing the traditional proppant sand, into the U.S. market. So far, the Chinese ceramic proppant has occupied the entire North American ceramic proppant market share of 13%, the average total annual turnover of $ 3 billion.

shale gas development in hydraulic fracturing technology inseparable, but in the hydraulic  Fracturing proppant  one of the most important materials. The purpose is to support the proppant reservoir pressure opening pressure of the water at high pressure, open fractures, so that the oil and gas flow.
In the past, U.S. companies typically make use of sand  Proppant   Sand strata pressure pump into deep wells and easily crushed, so more and more companies tend to use ceramic proppant. For those not willing to pay 40 cents / lb ceramic sand, more economical option is to use performance than the traditional quartz sand of resin-coated sand. As more and more North Dakota drilling, sand increasing demand, countries, and even from Wisconsin and Minnesota found sand.