The International Perforating Forum was incorporated in 2015, in the State of Texas, USA, as a non profit organization, under the name of "International Perforation Forum Company" (IPFC). With more than 13 symposiums held around the world since 2008, and counting more than 2000 members, IPF had grown into a reputable industry-leading organization that needed [...]
After the upcoming IPS 2016 in Galveston in May, the Latin America IPS Committee is organizing a new symposium on October 18-20, 2016 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. More details to follow, we cordially invite you to visit our website again for updates.
There seems to be a lot of confusion in the industry over the risk of perforation tunnel failure and the risk of sand production. I think many companies are using static/elastic rock failure models. These models are very conservative and don't consider the plastic behavior of rocks. Also they are applying static stress models to [...]
