Patent ID: 7874360

Claim:
A method comprising: providing a slurry comprising a treatment fluid and low-quality particulates, wherein the low-quality particulates do not meet at least one of the standards for sphericity, roundness, size, turbidity, acid solubility, percentage of fines, or crush resistance as recited in American Petroleum Institute Recommended Practices standard numbers 56 and 58 for proppant and gravel and wherein the low-quality particulates are at least partially coated with an aqueous tackifying composition, wherein the aqueous tackifying composition comprises an aqueous liquid and an aqueous tackifier compound selected from the group consisting of: an acrylic acid polymer, an acrylic acid ester polymer, an acrylic acid derivative polymer, an acrylic acid homopolymer, an acrylic acid ester homopolymer, an acrylic acid ester co-polymer, a methacrylic acid derivative polymer, a methacrylic acid homopolymer, a methacrylic acid ester homopolymer, an acrylamido-methyl-propane sulfonate polymer, an acrylamido-methyl-propane sulfonate derivative polymer, an acrylamido-methyl-propane sulfonate co-polymer, or an acrylic acid/acrylamide-methyl-propane sulfonate co-polymer, and any combination thereof; and introducing the slurry into at least a portion of the well bore penetrating the subterranean formation; and depositing at least a portion of the low-quality particulates into the portion of the subterranean formation so as to form a gravel pack therein.