| abstract |
Fluid production from an unconsolidated formation penetrated by anwellbore is stimulated whilst restricting the migration of formation sandsnwith fluids produced from the formation, by injecting a hardenable resinncomposition into a portion of the formation surrounding the wellborenwhereby that portion is consolidated into a hard permeable mass, forming annindentation in the wellbore to facilitate the initiation of a fracture in thenconsolidated portion of the formation, creating a fracture in the formationnextending from the wellbore through the consolidated portion of thenformation into an unconsolidated portion thereof and depositing hardenablenresin composition coated proppant in the fracture whereby the proppant isnconsolidated into a hard permeable mass. |