Perforating laboratory services
Predict perforating performance for enhanced efficiency
Overview
Optimized perforating solutions for maximum well productivity
At the SLB Productivity Enhancement Research Facility (PERF), we develop tailored perforating strategies based on real-world simulations and extensive testing. Our global team of perforating experts uses advanced lab technologies to predict and optimize your well’s reservoir-to-wellbore connection. These insights help ensure more efficient, reliable, and safer well operations, from charge detonation to full-scale flowback testing. By replicating downhole conditions with real reservoir rock samples, we provide the answers you need to optimize your perforating strategy.
Customized perforating solutions
are specific to your reservoir, accounting for unique formation types and downhole conditions.
Realistic testing
simulates reservoir pressure dynamics to predict well response, ensuring accuracy and reliability in the field.
Polyaxial stress frame technology
enables complete perforation system testing, from detonation through flowback.
With more than 60 years of experience in perforation testing and innovation, SLB continues to lead the industry, delivering precise, data-driven insights to maximize well productivity.
Enhance your well’s perforation performance
Using real-time data and advanced simulation techniques, the SLB PERF provides a thorough understanding of how your reservoir responds to perforating. We validate production rates of up to 300 MMcf/d under actual downhole conditions, ensuring your perforating strategy is optimized for long-term efficiency and safety.
Advanced perforation testing: full-scale system evaluation
Our industry-leading polyaxial stress frame enables comprehensive testing of your entire perforating system, simulating realistic wellbore pressures and stresses. From charge detonation to 3D perforation behavior analysis, we deliver actionable insights that enhance operational performance.
Full-Scale Perforating Productivity Testing
True triaxial stress in true downhole environment
Realizing lost well productivity via wellbore implosion
This tech paper presents a through-tubing perforation job followed by the implementation of a wellbore implosion technique to clean perforation tunnels and enhance well productivity. After initial perforations resulted in a lower productivity index because of through-tubing limitations, the wellbore implosion technique was successfully applied, leading to improved well performance. The operation demonstrates the effectiveness of this method in cleaning perforations, enabling a valuable solution for both producer and injector wells to enhance productivity.
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