Lightweight oil and gas well proppants and methods for making and using same

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PATENT NO 4921821
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07297877

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A lightweight oil and gas well proppant made by simultaneously mixing and compacting a milled calcined kaolin clay powder to form green pellets and then drying, screening and sintering the pellets to form proppant pellets having a specific gravity of 3.0 or less and a conductivity of at least 4,200 millidarci-feet and preferably at least 5,100 md-ft as measured by the Stim-Lab method after 50 hours at 8,000 psi and 275.degree. F. in the presence of deoxygenated aqueous 2% solution of KCl.

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NORTON-ALCOA PROPPANTS4300 GERBER ROAD FT SMITH AZ 72904

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Lemieux, Paul R Ft. Smith, AR 5 294
Rumpf, David S Ft. Smith, AR 5 294

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