13 – Safety is Priority One

A few years after the first commercial use of shaped charges, oilfield services companies directed some of their attention away from product performance and considered an additional topic: safety. An accidental detonation of a shaped charge could damage equipment and the wellbore. Such an event could also be deadly to Read more

12 – Stop the Interference

Oilfield services companies knew that recovering oil and gas required numerous perforations in relatively thin formation layers. To obtain the maximum perforation of these layers, companies developed carriers housing multiple shaped charges placed within a few inches of each other. Field experience with these carriers frequently showed disappointing results; the Read more