Protect your well in a simple treatment while you frac
The GUARD solution is developed by using ceramic proppant with engineered porosity that is infused with production chemicals. Each treatment incorporating GUARD can be designed to last for the effective life of the well. Our technologies significantly reduce production maintenance requirements and costs, avoid workovers and eliminate the potential for catastrophic production system failures.
SCALEGUARD scale-inhibiting technology
Watch this video to see how SCALEGUARD technology is placed throughout the entire fracture as part of the standard fracturing process, providing long term protection after just one application.
More efficient than alternative treatments
Our unique GUARD technology outperforms other production assurance treatments which can be inefficient, expensive and required to be repeated due to their short effective periods.
GUARD treatments:
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Controlled release technology significantly lengthens treatment life and reduces initial inhibitor washout
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Engineered ceramic proppant that provides effective chemical delivery, high fracture conductivity and strength
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Liquid inhibitor added to frac fluid is short-lived and inefficient due to the large volume of chemicals required
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Periodic squeezes are short-lived and must be routinely repeated, incurring ongoing operational expenditure
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Other particulate chemical carriers added during frac can impair conductivity and can be short-lived
Client Successes
Scale prevented for over two years in 150 Permian wells with a cumulative 10M bbl of produced water
SCALEGUARD technology outperforms all other scale preventative measures in the Permian
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Proactive approach prevents scaling in Permian’s water-rich formations
‘Leading-edge’ SCALEGUARD technology tackles exorbitant water volumes to tame scale
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SCALEGUARD technology outperforms all other scale preventative measures in the Permian
Separators kept scale-free in well on production for over two years
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Single-treatment scale prevention sustains production: Utah
SCALEGUARD proppant-delivered inhibition keeps oil flowing, eliminates frequent, high-cost remediation.
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SCALEGUARD solves recurring scaling issues where prior liquid inhibitors have failed
In a single-treatment, SCALEGUARD shuts down scaling despite excessive produced water volumes
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SCALEGUARD tops competitors to become scale inhibitor of choice
Field trial reveals wells treated with proppant-delivered technology remain scale-free after two years
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On site delivery compatible with box systems. We have the ability to pre-blend in sand before arrival on location.
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Single-treatment scale prevention sustains production: Utah
Uinta Basin, Utah
SCALEGUARD proppant-delivered inhibition keeps oil flowing, eliminates frequent, high-cost remediation. Learn More
SCALEGUARD shows potential to double production life: Manitoba
Manitoba, Canada
Using SCALEGUARD avoids costly remediation and production decline due to severe scale deposition. Learn More
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Fracture Technologies
Develop integrated solutions to optimize well performance and optimize returns with CARBO's innovative fracture and proppant technologies. Learn More
Proppant-Delivered Production Assurance
Reduce your costs and increase production with the GUARD family of proppant-delivered production assurance technologies Learn More
Improvements in Downhole Chemical Delivery: Development of Multifunctional Proppants
Ceramic proppants can provide the highest fracture conductivity under most conditions relative to natural frac sand and resin coated sands. Learn More
Effective Scale Prevention Using Chemically Infused Proppant - A Uinta Basin Case History
Scale deposition down hole is a well-known and common production problem throughout the industry. Successful treatment of scale where it is first deposited near wellbore can be challenging in many cases, and sometimes impossible in others. Learn More
Pioneering a New Method to Prevent Scale in Deep Water, High Pressure Reservoirs - A Gulf of Mexico Case Study
Production of hydrocarbons in deep water reservoirs involves the economical flow of hydrocarbons from the reservoir to the point of sale. Learn More
A Novel Technique for Determining Screen Failure in Offshore Wells: A GOM Case History
Offshore completions in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) must typically address sand control. Our industry has made significant progress with respect to sand control equipment and implementation. Learn More
Novel Proppant Surface Treatment Yields Enhanced Multiphase Flow Performance and Improved Hydraulic Fracture Clean-Up
This paper describes the development and testing of a new proppant designed to exhibit a neutrally wet surface. The modified surface does not have a preferential affinity for oil, gas, or water and therefore will not promote the preferential entrapment of any phase within the proppant pack. Learn More
Can Proppants Do More Than Hold The Fracture Open?
In the 1940’s experimental fracture treatments were performed without proppant. However in most formations unpropped fractures heal quickly with no sustained benefit, and in 1947 river sand was introduced as proppant. Learn More
Controlling Proppant Wettability Leads to Increase Flowback Recovery and Flow in Frac-Packs
Recovery of frac-pack fluids is often poor in offshore operations. Large amounts of stimulation fluids left in the fracture may leak-off into the porous formation or block part of the proppant pack thus impairing hydrocarbon production. Learn More
Can Proppants Do More Than Hold The Fracture Open?
In the 1940’s experimental fracture treatments were performed without proppant. However in most formations unpropped fractures heal quickly with no sustained benefit, and in 1947 river sand was introduced as proppant. Learn More
A Novel Technology for Providing Long Term Scale Prevention in an Alaskan North Slope Waterflood
Most North Slope Alaska oilfields undergo waterflood for pressure maintenance and improved oil recovery. Both recycled produced water, as well as treated seawater are injected into the reservoir which then mixes with connate water in the formation. Learn More
Sieve Distribution vs Sand Retention: The Impact of Mono-Sieved Gravel on Sand Control
Traditional sand control sizing has typically been based on "standard", wide-sieve gravel distributions (i.e. 20/40, 16/30, etc). Historic sand retention testing has therefore been limited to these standard gravel (i.e. proppant) sizes. Learn More
Prevention of Halite Formation and Deposition in Horizontal Wellbores: A Multi Basin Developmental Study
Halite scale is a wide spread problem throughout several basins in the United States. This scale can form in surface equipment, downhole tubulars as well as affecting production. Traditional remediation of halite can be accomplished by dissolving the scale in fresh water as well as recycled water. Learn More
New Tools Enable Better Completions
With production performance varying from one well to another on the same pad, and even from one stage to another along a single lateral, optimizing stimulation designs from the toe to the heel can have measurable impacts on a well's completion efficiency, economic performance, and ultimate recovery potential. The American Oil & Gas Reporter, March 2016 Learn More
Advancing shale science
The end game for operators in horizontal resource plays is simple: Maximize the stimulated reservoir volume and keep induced fractures propped open so hydrocarbons keep flowing. Accomplishing those objectives, says Don Conkle, vice president of marketing and sales at CARBO, is leading the industry to pump more proppant per well. The American Oil & Gas Reporter, February 2018 Learn More
Advanced completion design, fracture modeling technologies optimize Eagle Ford performance
Unconventional resources require fracture stimulation to achieve economic production rates and recoveries. However, hydraulic fracture modeling in resource plays, specifically in the Eagle Ford Shale, is challenging and often reduced to “rules of thumb” and design concepts taken from other shale plays. The American Oil & Gas Reporter, December 2011. Learn More
Hydraulic fracturing: Beyond conductivity
For 70 years proppant technology has primarily consisted of uncoated frack sands, resin-coated proppant and ceramic proppant. These three tiers of proppant have served, and continue to serve, as the workhorse for propping open hydraulic fractures and have allowed for the successful development of many otherwise uneconomic reservoirs. Hart's E&P, February 2015 Learn More
Novel Proppant Surface Treatment for Enhanced Performance and Improved Cleanup
The development and testing of a new proppant designed to exhibit a neutrally wet surface that does not have a preferential affinity for oil, gas, or water and therefore will not promote the preferential entrapment of any phase within the proppant pack. JPT, March 2016 Learn More
Technology Applications November 2017
Fracture-stimulation designs and cost structures are continually evolving in unconventional reservoirs. Consequently, slickwater ftacturing fluids are being deployed more frequently because they cost less, have a reduced impact on proppant pack damage, and have reduced chemical package requirements. JPT, November 2017. Learn More
Pushing Beyond Propping
An overview of proppant technology capabilities in a range of global oil and gas applications. Oilfield Technology, July 2016 Learn More
Engineering Production Assurance - SCALEGUARD Feature
New proppant-delivered technology platform, designed to prevent reservoir damage and maximize production. Oilfield Technology, July 2017 Learn More
The Scale of the Problem
Joshua Leasure, CARBO, USA, describes a proppant-delivered solution to the widespread problem of scale deposition in the oilfield. Oilfield Technology, July 2018 Learn More
Precision-Engineered Proppants
Don Conkle, CARBO, USA, describes the development of a precision-engineered proppant, KRYPTOSPHERE, and reviews its performance. Oilfield Technology, March 2018 Learn More
Proppants Keep Pace with Technology
Increasing lateral lengths and the addition of fracturing stages are driving proppant demand as providers continue to develop technological advances that allow operators to boost initial production and enhance estimated ultimate recoveries in U.S. resource plays. The American Oil & Gas Reporter, August 2014 Learn More