Energetic Testing and Technology Developments
2019 NAPS-1.1 Advances in perforating testing; then
2019 NAPS-1.2 Improving Pumping Down Efficiency and Safety with Intelligent Assisting System – Zhao, China National Petroleum Corporation
2019 NAPS-1.3 Testing the fines migration hypothesis for cased-hole gravel pack impairment using a novel laboratory approach – McGregor, Halliburton
Perforating Dynamics and Modeling
2019 NAPS-2.1 3D flatpack simulations – Craddock, Halliburton
2019 NAPS-2.2 Application of a Transient Near-Wellbore / Reservoir Simulator For Complex Completions Design – Gilliat, Baker Hughes, a GE Company
2019 NAPS-2.3 Dynamic Overbalance vs. Dynamic
Energetic Testing and Technology Developments
2019 NAPS-3.1 Frac Charges – How Do They Really Perform Downhole? –Grove, Halliburton
2019 NAPS-3.2 Cluster Perforating Systems – Tailored perforating for modern completions – Sokolove, Hunting Titan
Perforating and Energetic Safety
2019 NAPS-4.1 2019 Revision of the PSAC/ESC Oilwell Perforators Safety Course – Wierenga, Energy Safety Canada/Downton’s Completions
2019 NAPS-4.2 Agitating Explosives In Extended Reach Wells – A Good Idea? Daly, Expro
2019 NAPS-4.3 Increasing Safety by Advancing Perforating Technology Amin, Hunting Titan
2019 NAPS-4.4 What Happens if Shear Ram Closed Against Perforating Guns – Ibrahim, Petroleum Development of Oman
Productivity Improvement Case Studies
2019 NAPS-5.1 A Look at Perforating for Mechanical Isolation Refracs – Coker, Owen Oil Tools
2019 NAPS-5.2 Extended Lateral Solutions for an Extremely Difficult Well Trajectory – Albert, Allied-Horizontal Wireline Services
2019 NAPS-5.3 Pressure Pulse Perforating – Loving, Owen Oil Tools
Perforating Dynamics and Modeling
2019 NAPS-6.1 Numerical simulation for near borehole fluid dynamics at perforation tunnel – Vega, University of Utah
2019 NAPS-6.2 Dynamic behavior and simulation of a shock data measured low-debris transient-management gun system – Kuldeep Singh, Halliburton
2019 NAPS-6.3 Prediction of Gun String Dynamic Failure Risks during Perforating – Rodgers, Starboard Innovations, LLC
2019 NAPS-6.4 Re-perforating formerly inaccessible
Productivity Improvement Case Studies
2019 NAPS-7.1 Perforating Deployment System Reduces Rig Time Hillier, Schlumberger
2019 NAPS-7.2 Perforating Trends, Technology
Productivity Improvement Case Studies
2019 NAPS-8.1 Propellant-Assisted Technologies Successfully Deployed in Middle-East Formations to Enhance Productivity – Gilliat, Baker Hughes, a GE Company
2019 NAPS-8.2 Test Results (Field & Lab) for A New Composite Perforating Method that Integrates Propellant and Shaped Charges –Albert, Allied-Horizontal Wireline Services
2019 NAPS-8.3 Instrumented Docking Perforating Gun System – Field experience results in Ecuador – Benavides, Schlumberger