Hydraulic Fracturing

Equipment
By Eng. Saad Shabana

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Agenda
 Blender
 Hydration Unit
 Mountain Mover
 Silo
 Manifold Trailer
 Pump
 Well head isolation tool
 Monitoring unit
 Lab
 Iron
 Rig up

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 Mountain mover
Frac head

pump

pump

Sand chive
Tank 500 bbl

Tank 500 bbl

manifold

Tank 500 bbl

Gate valves

PRV blinder
PRV [TBG]
Tank 500 bbl
[CSG]
pump

pump

pump
CHEMICAL ADDITIVE
PUMPS
S
L
P
JT

P
T
V

PKR

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Rig up

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Rig up

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Blender
 Blenders measure and mix Proppant with
Liquid and Dry chemicals at the desired
ratios in the fracturing fluid and pump the
fluid to High pressure pumps.

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100 bbl Slurry Blender

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105 bbl Slurry Blender

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75 bbl Blender

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POD (Programmable Optimum Density)

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Blender Components
 Suction Centrifugal Pump
 Discharge Centrifugal Pump
 Flowmeters
 Densometer
 Mixing Tub
 SandScrews
 Liquid Additive
 Dry Additive
 Liquid Additive Storage Tank
 Chemical Transfer Pump

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Centrifugal Pump
 Used to draw fluids out
of Frac tanks or Gel-
Pro and convey sand
laden fluids to high
pressure pumps
 One pump located on
the suction side and one
on the discharge side
 Discharge side used
mainly as boost for
high pressure pumps

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Flowmeters
 Have to be inserted
with the arrow in
the flow direction
 Have calibrated
vanes inside

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Densometer
 Used to measure the density of the fluid.
 There are two kinds high pressure and low
pressure.
 Consist of a radioactive source and a receiver
 Need to be calibrated with fluids known density
 Need to perform a safety check on the source
regularly

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Densometer

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Densometer

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 Mixing Tub
 Capacity: 6-10 bbls
 Mixes additives and Proppant with linear gel
 Tub level float
 Keep tub level Constant
 Tub level valve
 Maintains a constant suction pressure
 Electronically open or closed valve
 Keep 40-60% open

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Mixing Tub (cont.)
 Tub agitators
 Hydraulically driven turbine agitators
 Two sets of blades on a shaft
 Keeps proppant suspended in fluid without
entraining air
 Default setting is 40 rpm without proppant
 Add another 4 rpm per pound of proppant added

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Mixing Tub

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Mixing Tub

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Sand Screw
 Lift sand from the hopper into the tub
 Comes in two sizes 12” and 14” cut down screws
 Optical encoder are mounted on the screws to count the
revolution
 Must be calibrated with an open loop calibration
 12” can deliver from 291 lbs till 10,000 lbs per minute
 14” can deliver from 469 lbs till 16,000 lbs per minute

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Sand Screw

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Sand Screw

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Sand Screw

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Liquid additive pump
 Used to pump liquids on the fly through injection inputs
on the suction of both centrifugal pumps
 They are very accurate
 There rates are measured with a tachometer or
micromotion
 They are calibrated by performing bucket test
 There should be a head of fluid above it to insure
accuracy
 Should be checked before and after each job
 The progressive cavity pump is more accurate than the
other pumps

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Liquid additive pump

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Injection points

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Sampling Point

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Dry Additive
 Used to add dry
additives to the blender
tub
 Additive moved by
screw feeders into tub
 Additives are sack fed
into the hopper
 Capacity of hoppers are
approximately 2 sacks
each

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Dry Additive

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Liquid Additive Storage Tank
 Stainless Steel
 75 and 30 gal Tank

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 SP Breaker BC-200 X-Linker CL-31 Activator

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Liquid Additive Storage Tank

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Chemical Transfer Pump
 Transfer chemicals
from Drums to
Haltanks or uprights
on the blender truck
 Each of the pumps
are used specifically
to filled their
designated Haltank
or upright

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Hydration Unit (gel-Pro)

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Hydration Unit (gel-Pro)

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 Mountain mover Sand Sheave

Sand delivery systems

Silo

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Mountain Mover

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Mountain Mover
 5 compartments (1st and 5th are 560 cu.ft,
2nd,3rd, and 4th 460)
 Comes to site empty and is loaded by one truck
per compartment
 Uses conveyor belts to move sand from
compartments to blender
 We always empty closest compartment to the
blender first and then from front to back.
Explanation\sand Chief.swf

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Mountain Mover (Halliburton)

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Mountain Mover

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Mountain Mover

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Sand chief (SLB)

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Mountain Mover (Weatherford)

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Mountain Mover

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Mountain Mover

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Mountain Mover

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Standup Cilo

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Standup Cilo

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Manifold Trailer

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Manifold Trailer

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Manifold Trailer

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Manifold Trailer

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Manifold Trailer
 Save time on rig up and rig down
 Provide symmetrical flow, reduce friction losses
and provide balance flow
 to provide discharge headers adequate for high
rate (70 bbl/min, 185.5 L/s) and/or high working
pressure (15,000 psi, 103 420 kPa) stimulation
treatments
 Supported with electric-over-hydraulic landing
gear to allow raising and lowering of trailer to
tractors that are not equipped with winch systems.

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Ground Manifold

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Pump

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Pump
 It is a positive displacement pump used for
stimulation or cementing to pump fluid
from surface down to the formation at
respectively high rates and under
respectively high pressure.
 It consists of three major parts: Engine,
Transmission and pump.

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Pump Engine

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Transmission
Transmission

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Power End
Power End

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Power End

Power End

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Fluid End

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Fluid End
Fluid End

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Pump Control
 Operator Interface
Panel (OIP)
 Automatic Functions
 Transmission
Shifting
 Auto Rate
 Auto Pressure
 Over Pressure Limit

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Pump

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Pump

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Monitoring Unit Monitoring Unit.3gp

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Monitoring Unit

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Monitoring Unit

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Monitoring Unit

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Monitoring Unit

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Monitoring Unit

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Lab

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Well Head Isolation Tool (WHIT)

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Inside Lab

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Inside Lab

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Iron

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Regular Tanks

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Manifold Tanks

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Four Pumps on the line

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Two pumps on the line

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Two long lines

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One short line

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Rig less

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Rig

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 Questions ?

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