Perforating allows you to connect your well with your reservoir. Any perforating design will give you some productivity. However, how can you be sure you're maximizing your reservoir performance through an optimum perforating design?

What if you could unlock 10%, 20% or more than 50% additional production through an optimized perforating design based on downhole conditions? Our Productivity Enhancement and Research Facility (PERF) supports customers globally to unlock reservoir potential by improving perforating designs using the industry’s most advanced software and hardware technologies.

We use our spam modeling software to simulate multiple perforating designs and select the best candidate for validation in the lab. The lab testing starts with selecting the rock that's representative for your reservoir. Once we find a suitable rock, we dry the rock and saturate it as per your field conditions. The gun module is designed to generate the same pressure-dynamic behavior assimilated for the field conditions. The core and the gun module are now loaded into one of our vessels and subjected to pressure, stress, and temperature. Our vessels are capable of handling ambient conditions all the way up to 50,000 psi and 550 degF.

Once we reach bottomhole conditions, we fire the gun. After that, we flow through the core sample to measure the productivity of the perforation tunnel. This allows us to validate the simulations and calculate the completion efficiency or the skin. After the test, we CT scan and split the core to evaluate the perforation, tunnel length, diameter, and cleanup.

Operators no longer need to guess how guns and charges will perform in their well. At PERF, we can test and validate multiple perforating designs and customize the best solution to maximize productivity, reduce completion risks, and reduce overall completion costs.