A significant percentage of all oil and gas wells drilled worldwide undergo a hydraulic fracturing program to stimulate production. In North America, a majority of new wells are fractured, particularly in the shale gas plays.

A variety of frac additive chemical service solutions are available to improve the performance of frac operations. Additives can deliver benefit during the frac job and during flowback and production operations, but not all frac additives are fully compatible with all formation chemistries, and incompatibilities between frac additive chemicals themselves have been known to cause ...