Challenge: Improve perforating design to
penetrate beyond near-wellbore formation alteration and reduce skin effect.
Solution: Incorporate radial profiles of
petrophysical and geomechanical parameters measured by the Sonic Scanner
acoustic scanning platform to fully characterize the formation for modeling
perforation performance downhole using SPAN Rock stressed-rock perforating
analysis.
Result: Penetrated beyond the alteration zone
while reducing skin by more than 60% by perforating with PowerJet Nova
extradeep penetrating shaped charges identified using inputs from the Sonic
Scanner platform.