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US 11,377,938 B1Granted
Perforations using fluids containing hollow spheres
AssigneeHalliburton Energy Services, Inc.
InventorsDale E. Jamison, Brian Alan Evans, Denise Nicole Benoit, Daniel Joshua Stark
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Abstract
Techniques of the present disclosure relate to downhole perforation operations using fluid containing hollow spheres. A method comprising: disposing a perforating apparatus in a volume of hollow particles in a wellbore; and detonating the perforating apparatus to collapse a portion of the hollow particles to increase flow through at least one perforation resulting from a detonation.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- lowering a perforating apparatus into a fluid comprising hollow particles, the fluid disposed in a wellbore;
- and
- detonating the perforating apparatus to collapse a portion of the hollow particles to increase flow through at least one perforation resulting from a detonation.
A system comprising:
- a perforating apparatus comprising a magnet;
- and
- hollow particles operable to receive the perforating apparatus, wherein a portion of the hollow particles are operable to collapse upon detonation of the perforating apparatus to increase flow through a perforation in a wellbore.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.