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Gravel packing system for a production radial tube

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5144105
This patent describes a perforating tool for electrolyticly forming perforations from within an electrically conductive production radial tube. It comprises: an elongate hollow perforating tube portion terminating at its forward end in a nose including space electrically conductive port walls defining ports extending through the nose. The tube portion is sufficiently flexible to move through a right angle turn in a tube, an electric power source, and electrically conductive means interconnecting the tube port walls with the electrical power source.
Assignee:
Petrolphysics Operators, San Francisco, CA (USA)
Patent Number(s):
US 4974672; A
Application Number:
PPN: US 7-373146
OSTI ID:
5144105
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English