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Fissure vs Proppant - What's the difference?

fissure | proppant |

As nouns the difference between fissure and proppant

is that fissure is a crack or opening, as in a rock while proppant is sand or similar particulate material suspended in water or other fluid and used in hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to keep fissures open.

As a verb fissure

is to split forming fissures.

fissure

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a crack or opening, as in a rock

    • Derived terms

    * fissure needle * fissure of Rolando * fissure of Sylvius * fissure vein

    Verb

    (fissur)
  • To split forming fissures.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    proppant

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Sand or similar particulate material suspended in water or other fluid and used in hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to keep fissures open.
  • * 1995 , P. A. Fletcher, C. T. Montgomery, G. G. Ramos, R. J. Guillory, M. J. Francis, Optimizing hydraulic fracture length to prevent formation failure in oil and gas reservoirs'', Jaak J. K. Daemen, Richard A. Schultz (editors), ''Rock Mechanics: Proceedings of the 35th U.S. Symposium , page 296,
    • The use of resin coated proppants' is an area that should increase the chance of success of fracturing for sand control by eliminating the chance for ' proppant to flow out of the fracture.
  • * 2007 , Boyun Guo, William C. Lyons, Ali Ghalambor, Petroleum Production Engineering: A Computer-Assisted Approach , page 17/259,
    • In general, bigger proppant' yields better permeability, but '''proppant''' size must be checked against '''proppant''' admittance criteria through the perforations and inside the fracture. Figure 17.9 shows permeability of various kinds of ' proppants under fracture closure stress.
  • * 2007 , Jack W. Plunkett, Plunkett?s Energy Industry Almanac: 2008 , unnumbered page,
    • Holding an estimated 36% of the ceramic and about 6% of the general proppant' markets globally, the firm is one of the largest suppliers of this specialized product in the world. ' Proppants are granular structures, such as ceramic or sand, contained in the liquids that companies use to fracture the inside of an oil or natural gas well in order to increase the flow of the hydrocarbons.

    Synonyms

    * (water-suspended material used in fracking) propping agent