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Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019

Filed:

May. 06, 2015
Applicant:

Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Richard Ellis Robey, Mansfield, TX (US);

Allan Zhong, Plano, TX (US);

Wesley Neil Ludwig, Fort Worth, TX (US);

Christopher C. Hoelscher, Arlington, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 43/117 (2006.01); E21B 43/119 (2006.01); E21B 43/116 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 43/119 (2013.01); E21B 43/116 (2013.01); E21B 43/117 (2013.01);
Abstract

A perforating gun apparatus for use in a wellbore comprising at least one explosive component and a disintegration-resistant porous material. The disintegration-resistant porous material minimizes fluid shock propagation from a perforated reservoir resulting from the inrush of fluid and debris. A system and method of minimizing fluid shock propagation effects in a perforating gun apparatus using a disintegration-resistant porous material to attenuate fluid pressure waves during a perforation operation in a subterranean well.


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