Patents Assigned to Brownwood Clay Holdongs, LLC
  • SPHERICAL PELLETS CONTAINING COMMON CLAY PARTICULATE MATERIAL USEFUL AS A PROPPANT IN HYDRAULIC FRACTURING OF OIL AND GAS WELLS
    Publication number: 20130345100
    Abstract: A ceramic propping agent, in the form of a spherical pellet, and containing common mineral particulate. The desired propping agent is defined as a particulate ceramic made from raw materials which may be comprised of about: 10%-90% parts by weight of a naturally occurring mineral particulate, 30%-70% parts by weight aluminosilicate network modifier, 0.25-20% parts by weight strength enhancer, and at least one part, typically less than 10% by weight, binder. For use in oil and/or natural gas wells as a hydraulic fracturing proppant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: Brownwood Clay Holdongs, LLC
    Inventors: Bryan Dell Geary, David Glenn Hall, Carlton Frazier Sorrell, Gary J. Davis, Richard F. Watkins