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Typically, water-based fracturing treatments consume large volume of fresh water. Additionally, providing consistent fresh water sources is difficult and sometimes not feasible especially in remote areas and offshore. Therefore, several seawater tolerant guar gum-based fracturing fluids have been developed in efforts to preserve fresh water resources. However, none of these fluids meet the current requirements of preventing/minimizing fracture face skin and proppant conductivity impairment especially in unconventional wells in Saudi Arabia. This paper will go provide the process of resolving this issue.

Several experiments, tweaking and design iterations were conducted to tailor seawater-based fracturing fluids. These fluids were designed to have rheological properties that can carry and transport proppant under dynamic and static conditions. The optimized seawater based fracturing fluid recipes were …