Patent ID: 9540561
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: C09K

Claim:
1. A method comprising: providing a treatment fluid comprising an aqueous tackifying agent; providing a first treatment fluid that comprises a plurality of first proppant; providing a second treatment fluid that comprises swellable elastomer particulates wherein the swellable elastomer is selected from the group consisting of: natural rubber, acrylate butadiene rubber, polyacrylate rubber, isoprene rubber, chloroprene rubber, butyl rubber, brominated butyl rubber, chlorinated butyl rubber, chlorinated polyethylene, neoprene rubber, styrene butadiene copolymer rubber, sulfonated polyethylene, ethylene acrylate rubber, epichlorohydrin ethylene oxide copolymer, ethylene propylene rubber, ethylene propylene diene terpolymer rubber, ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer, flourosilicone rubbers, silicone rubbers, fluoro rubber, and combinations thereof; placing the treatment fluid comprising the aqueous tackifying agent into a fracture within a shale formation having a layered bedding plane structure and having closure stresses less than about 2,000 psi, alternating the placement of the first treatment fluid and the second treatment fluid into the fracture having the layered bedding plane structure such that the aqueous tackifying agent adheres the swellable elastomer particulates to the sides of the layered bedding plane structure; and