US 11,697,760 B2
System and method for utilizing oolitic aragonite as a proppant in hydraulic fracking
James Duane Stover, Gloucester, VA (US); and Jayson Alexander Meyers, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US)
Assigned to Pisa Carolina, LLC, Fairfield, NC (US)
Filed by Pisa Carolina, LLC, Fairfield, NC (US)
Filed on Jan. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/582,829.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/141,188, filed on Jan. 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0235261 A1, Jul. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. C09K 8/80 (2006.01); E21B 43/267 (2006.01)
CPC C09K 8/80 (2013.01) [E21B 43/267 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for utilizing oolitic aragonite as a proppant in hydraulic fracking, comprising:
a proppant storage tank including a stockpile of the oolitic aragonite; and
a proppant pumping unit operable to pump the oolitic aragonite from the proppant storage tank, through an underground shaft, and into an underground fracture proximate to the underground shaft; and
wherein the oolitic aragonite is configured for forming interlocking networks of needle-like crystals within the underground fracture; and
wherein the oolitic aragonite is imbibed with anti-scaling chemicals.