Patent ID: 8714244

Claim:
A method for preparing a formation surrounding a wellbore to bear hydrocarbons, the method comprising steps of: drilling the wellbore with a bottomhole assembly; increasing a pressure of a fluid in at least a section of the wellbore while the bottomhole assembly is in the wellbore; fracturing the formation appurtenant to the wellbore to create one or more fractures; analyzing the one or more fractures; propping the one or more fractures with a sealing proppant which temporarily has low permeability and subsequently increases in permeability; performing further fracturing to create another fracture based upon the analyzing step; and further drilling the wellbore with the bottomhole assembly, wherein the steps listed between the two drilling steps occur in time between the two drilling steps without pulling the bottomhole assembly out of the wellbore and the sealing proppant increases in permeability after creation of said another fracture.