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
In 1947, Robert McLemore, an engineer at Well Explosives, Inc., faced a challenge. His company was one of many that offered shaped charge perforation services for the oil field. In such a competitive market, McLemore needed information for designing devices that would outperform the competition. The basic problem for McLemore, Read more
Clyde Davis was a gifted engineer who worked at the Eastern Laboratory of the E. I. DuPont de Nemours Company (DuPont). During World War II, he and his design group determined optimum values for parameters used in making shaped charge weapons, including the bazooka rocket warhead.1 The end of the Read more