Advances in materials science and nanotechnology deliver new composite material with unique chemical and mechanical properties. Hydraulic fracturing is among the most costly oilfield operations. Costs include milling or drilling out down-hole devices such as setting balls and plugs to recover the original-size fluid pathway for production. When the SPECTRE disintegrating frack plug was introduced at the recent Society of Petroleum Engineers Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, it marked a nanocomposite industry first.
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