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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 1989
Filed:
Jun. 06, 1988
Gregg W Stout, Montgomery, TX (US);
Baker Hughes Incorporated, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Improved method and apparatus are provided for perforating casing located in a deviated portion of a subterranean well. The direction toward which the explosive charges in the downhole perforating gun are facing upon firing of the gun is accurately controlled by a firing head operatively responsive to a first initiating signal activated from the surface and a second signal automatically generated when the gun is rotationally at a predetermined angular position relative to a vertical plane passing through the central axis of the perforating gun. A rotating device within the gun firing head enables the gun to be rotated for generating the second signal when the gun is positioned below a set packer. The technique of the present invention is reliable yet relatively inexpensive, and minimizes undesirable gravitation of formation sands with formation fluids into the casing.