Patent-pending and Proprietary Technology

Use of propellant to stimulate production offers a full range of operational, economic, and environmental advantages over traditional hydraulic fracturing in many applications. These begin with eliminating the use of water, of proppant sand, and of the need for wastewater recycling and disposal, and extend to improving field deployment logistics, along with lowering ongoing operating costs through reductions in both production equipment failure rates and transportation costs.

These existing propellant fracturing technologies have been successfully deployed in thousands of wells. However, despite their success, existing tools can only be used for short-duration treatments in vertical wells. These limitations have prevented widespread adoption.

RocketFrac’s isolation tool offers a completely new approach to propellant fracturing, featuring a range of innovations for potentially disruptive improvements in performance.  The advantages of RocketFrac’s patent-pending tool begin with fracture zone isolation for unprecedented propellant fracturing performance.

Tool Innovation with Revolutionary Isolation Mechanism

The uniqueness of the RocketFrac tool is its ability to deliver long duration pressure profiles to specifically targeted zones, thanks to RocketFrac’s unique isolation mechanism.

The tool and its integrated sealing mechanisms are:

• Automatically deployed
• Fully capable of containing the tremendous pressure generated by solid propellant
• Designed for easy removal from wells
• Reusable

And RocketFrac has collaboratively worked with its supplier in developing a proprietary custom blend of solid rocket propellant specifically to take advantage of the performance improvements available in conjunction with operation of this new tool.

Oilfield-Specific Tool Design and Environmentally Responsible Propellant Formulation

RocketFrac also designed the tool and its operation to be simple in its deployment and fully functional in both vertical and horizontal wells.

RocketFrac has the first tool to use a specially formulated proprietary propellant to achieve optimum pressure profiles for well stimulation. The propellant and initiation mechanisms are built specifically for use on wellsites, and are fully compliant with all oilfield safety requirements. RocketFrac’s propellant is safe to handle and transport, and generates no harmful byproducts.

Fast and Efficient Site Deployment

RocketFrac’s solution is designed to be simple and straightforward for operators to deploy. Only a wireline or coil tubing rig is required for downhole deployment, as compared to dozens of trucks and complex logistics for transport of materials and supplies for hydraulic fracing. This allows substantial reduction in logistical complexity with significant reductions of time and equipment required at the wellsite resulting in considerable opportunities for cost savings.

RocketFrac - Economically-Efficient and Environmentally-Friendly