Qinetiq Limited

Richard Gordon Townsley

Philip Duncan Church

Peter John Gould

Michael John Hinton

Robert Peter Claridge

Some embodiments are directed to a shaped charge liner including an apex end and a base end and defining a main liner axis that passes through the apex and base ends, the liner being rotationally symmetric about the main liner axis wherein the liner has discrete rotational symmetry about the main liner axis.

Shaped charge and method of modifying a shaped charge

An oil and gas well shaped charge perforator capable of providing an exothermic reaction after detonation is provided, comprising a housing (), a high explosive (), and a reactive liner () where the high explosive is positioned between the reactive liner and the housing. The reactive liner () is produced from a reactive composition which is capable of sustaining an exothermic reaction during the formation of the cutting jet. The composition is a pressed i.e. compacted particulate composition comprising at least two metals, wherein one of the metals is present as spherical particulate, and the other metal is present as a non-spherical particulate. There may also be at least one further metal, which is not capable of an exothermic reaction with the reactive composition, present in an amount greater than 10% w/w of the liner. To aid consolidation a binder may also be added.

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Tonbridge, United Kingdom

Richard Gordon Townsley