Methods for providing proppant slugs in fracturing treatments

摘要

A proppant pack may be formed in a fracture that extends from a wellbore formed in a subterranean formation is accompl ished through di fferent methods. The methods involve prov iding mu ltiple spaced apart proppant slugs with in a hydrau l ic fracturing fluid that is introduced into the w el lbore at a pressure above the fracturing pressure of the formation.