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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2009
Moises Enrique Smart, Houston, TX (US);
Larry Grigar, East Bernard, TX (US);
Moises Enrique Smart, Houston, TX (US);
Larry Grigar, East Bernard, TX (US);
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Abstract
A downhole propellant gas generator includes a propellant assembly that comprises a plurality of individual lengths of an energetic material packed in a selected configuration and at least one initiator. A method for creating a pressure pulse includes igniting an initiator, wherein the one or more initiators are packed with a plurality of individual lengths of an energetic material in a propellant assembly; igniting the plurality of individual lengths of the energetic material subsequent to the igniting of the one or more initiators. A method for stimulating a well includes disposing in the well a propellant gas generator having a propellant assembly that comprises a plurality of individual lengths of an energetic material, and at least one initiator packed among the plurality of individual lengths of the energetic material; igniting the at least one initiator, which in turn ignites the plurality of individual lengths of the energetic material.