NIOSH’s National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) is a partnership program to stimulate innovative research and improved workplace practices. Specifically, the Agenda for Oil and Gas Extraction is intended to identify the knowledge and actions most urgently needed to promote safety and health in the oil and gas extraction industry. One of the research agenda’s objectives …

A novel fluid additive that shows equivalent or lower viscosity and similar friction reduction as polyacrylamides has been tested to evaluate its suspension properties. API RP13 rheology was measured with an automatic viscometer to compare vs. a commercial High Viscosity Friction Reducer (HVFR) and evaluate with settling testing if viscosity helps to improve sand proppant …