Our perforating services
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Advanced well perforating systems
Maximize your well productivity with our engineered perforating solutions
Overview
Optimize your well performance
At SLB, we offer standard and customized well perforating systems designed to enhance oil and gas well productivity. Our innovative technologies ensure optimal interaction between the perforating gun system, wellbore, and reservoir to deliver superior results.
Innovative perforation technology
Our SPAN Rock™ stressed-rock perforating analysis model is the result of extensive research in rock penetration. It accurately predicts perforator performance downhole in reservoir rock, as documented in API RP 19B Section 1 data.
Effective perforation cleanup
Our advanced techniques clean perforation tunnels, enhancing your well's injectivity and productivity. This is crucial for wells suffering from improper perforation cleanup.
Comprehensive reservoir analysis
Achieve the best productivity from your completion with SLB perforating systems:
- Measure: Fully characterize the reservoir rock and fluids.
- Perforate: Use the optimal gun system and charges specified by SPAN Rock analysis.
- Clean: Control wellbore dynamics while perforating to ensure clean perforations.
- Monitor: Continuously track and maximize reservoir productivity.
Increasing Productivity Through Perforating Design Optimization
Maximize reservoir potential with our Productivity Enhancement and Research Facility (PERF)
The Productivity Enhancement Research Facility (PERF) offers the industry's most advanced testing systems and expert staff to determine your reservoir's performance when perforated. Reduce risk and optimize recovery with precision testing.
Eliminate guesswork in perforating changes with our comprehensive design approach. By considering the well, fluid, and formation environment, we integrate shaped charges and perforating gun systems to minimize damage and maximize connectivity between the wellbore and reservoir.
Optimize your well's completion and productivity with our shaped charges, designed for the deepest penetration, big hole, or uniform perforating applications. Performance-tested at reservoir conditions, our shaped charges ensure maximum efficiency.
Our perforating guns are engineered as integrated systems, combining carriers, shaped charges, and accessories. Each component is manufactured to rigorous quality control standards to ensure optimal performance.
Conveyance
Choose from our solutions for wireline, slickline, coiled tubing, or tubing-conveyed operations to meet your specific needs.
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Wireline Perforating
Engineered wireline-conveyed perforating systems maximize productionWireline-conveyed perforating improves efficiency while reducing rig time and cost.
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Digital Slickline Intervention
Perform a wider range of intervention activities with precision, control and certaintyLog, perforate, set, seal, and perform mechanical operations with digital surface control and depth correlation.
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Coiled Tubing Perforating
Streamline perforating while improving safety and reliabilityAchieves accurate depth control and ensures target zone coverage while controlling hydrostatic balance.
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Tubing-Conveyed Perforating
For long intervals in deviated and horizontal wellsRun long, heavy gun strings in all well conditions.
Case studies
See our technology in action
Realizing lost well productivity via wellbore implosion
Discover how our advanced wellbore implosion technique can improve your well productivity. This technical paper highlights a successful through-tubing perforating job followed by our innovative cleanup method. After initially facing a lower productivity index (PI) because of limited perforation capabilities, the operator implemented our wellbore implosion technique, which led to a significant PI improvement. Perfect for both producer and injector wells, our solution addresses improper perforation cleanup and instantly enhances well performance.
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