8 – Shoot and Retrieve

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

7 – Shoot and Leave

Quick question: What do wood, plastic, cardboard, cement, paper, steel, glass, and aluminum have in common? Answer: They were all considered as materials for expendable shaped charge carriers. Selecting the Best Material Oilfield services companies knew they had to detonate multiple shaped charges to perforate a formation adequately and enable Read more