The invention relates to the oil-and-gas production industry and can be
used for enhancement of the production of oilfield wells as it prevents
the fracture from closing by pumping of propping granules (proppant)
during the hydraulic fracturing of oil-producing formations. Higher
stimulation of a reservoir through using hydraulic fracturing is provided
with the proppant as particulate with spherical or elliptic form, made of
ceramic, polymer, metal, or glass and having higher roughness than
regular proppant, wherein the surface roughness is nonuniform and
described by two criteria A and B, varying in the intervals:
A=0.0085-0.85; B=0.001-1.0. The proppant manufacturing method comprising
the preparation of raw material, mixing, granulation, drying, firing,
wherein an additional stage of creation of surface roughness is added at
the granulation stage and/or the firing stage.