Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Constant entrance hole perforating gun system and method
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Application No.: US16285406Application Date: 2019-02-26
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Publication No.: US10774624B2Publication Date: 2020-09-15
- Inventor: Wenbo Yang , Philip M. Snider , John T. Hardesty , David S. Wesson
- Applicant: GEODYNAMICS, INC.
- Applicant Address: US TX Millsap
- Assignee: GEODYNAMICS, INC.
- Current Assignee: GEODYNAMICS, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Millsap
- Agency: Patent Portfolio Builders PLLC
- Main IPC: E21B43/116
- IPC: E21B43/116 ; E21B43/117 ; F24B1/02 ; E21B43/119 ; F42B1/028 ; E21B43/26 ; F42B3/08 ; E21B43/11 ; E21B43/1185

Abstract:
A shaped charge comprising a case, a liner positioned within the case, and an explosive filled within the case. The liner is shaped with a subtended angle ranging from 100° to 120° about an apex, a radius, and an aspect ratio such that a jet formed with the explosive creates an entrance hole in a well casing. The jet creates a perforation tunnel in a hydrocarbon formation, wherein a diameter of the jet, a diameter of the entrance hole diameter, and a width and length of the perforation tunnel are substantially constant and unaffected with changes in design and environmental factors such as a thickness and composition of the well casing, position of the charge in the perforating gun, position of the perforating gun in the well casing, a water gap in the wellbore casing, and type of the hydrocarbon formation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190186242A1 CONSTANT ENTRANCE HOLE PERFORATING GUN SYSTEM AND METHOD Public/Granted day:2019-06-20
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