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One Hundred Octopi and Counting: Lessons in Online Solids Management

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

Across today’s dominant shale plays, however, most solids flowing into surface production equipment are back-produced proppant from hydraulic fracture stimulation. The rate of solids production can be managed using downhole sand control (e.g., sand screens) and by chemical injection. using resin-coated proppants.)