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 The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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05/01/13 07:45 PM
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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05/01/13 08:02 PM
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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05/01/13 09:20 PM
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thats a big ol strip gun! ive shot several but not any that big. those are some big charges!
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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What the heck do you shoot that at 
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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thats a big ol strip gun! ive shot several but not any that big. those are some big charges! Yes sir. That's an old Tornado Gun we made in the late 50s. Charges that big using today's powder might make the Earth shift on its axis...well, not really. 
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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05/02/13 04:24 AM
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that looks like some fun times right their
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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05/02/13 04:32 AM
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OK...please educate me. What is it and what's it for?
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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OK...please educate me. What is it and what's it for?
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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05/02/13 11:33 AM
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It's a perforating gun. After a gas/oil well has been drilled and cased, guns containing shaped charges (the balls in the pic) are dropped in and set off. Although they don't contain a projectile, they burn holes in the walls of the casing and into the formation to let the product enter the well. Each charge in this gun from the 50s burned ~14,000° F.
Some of them we make can take a teaspoon of powder and burn a 1/2" hole through the casing and 8 feet into the formation.
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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05/02/13 01:08 PM
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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05/02/13 01:35 PM
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It's a perforating gun. After a gas/oil well has been drilled and cased, guns containing shaped charges (the balls in the pic) are dropped in and set off. Although they don't contain a projectile, they burn holes in the walls of the casing and into the formation to let the product enter the well. Each charge in this gun from the 50s burned ~14,000° F.
Some of them we make can take a teaspoon of powder and burn a 1/2" hole through the casing and 8 feet into the formation. Here is a pic of a test shot we turned into a model i have in my office to give yall a idea of what is going on thousands of feet in the ground. This shot came out of a modern carrier gun used these day most of the time. 
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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05/02/13 01:41 PM
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Here is a pic of a test shot we turned into a model i have in my office to give yall a idea of what is going on thousands of feet in the ground. This shot came out of a modern carrier gun used these day most of the time. [/quote] That looks like a zinc cased, brass liner big hole charge. We make alot of those.
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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That looks like a zinc cased, brass liner big hole charge. We make alot of those.
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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05/02/13 02:07 PM
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OOT and currently at GeoDynamics. We do have a couple engineers from JRC though.
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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05/02/13 04:30 PM
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Dang. I'm midstream/downstream/refinement.... but this down-hole stuff gets me more and more interested every day.
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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05/02/13 04:55 PM
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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05/02/13 05:12 PM
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Yea. I hate laying the gun down after a misfire, always nervous.
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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Here's a pic from a 1954 CAMCO catalog I have. Note the hi-tech Wireline truck and the state of the art information gathering method.  
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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05/02/13 06:26 PM
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Here's a pic from a 1954 CAMCO catalog I have. Note the hi-tech Wireline truck and the state of the art information gathering method. WOW!! its come along way!! 
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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05/02/13 07:39 PM
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That is interesting as heck. Perforations are more uniform than I had always imagined they would be.
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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05/02/13 07:52 PM
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And they don't always look the same. Here's sample of a shot designed to cut a clean hole. It doesn't clog up as fast as the ragged holes. It's a WELEX Mark I charge. WELEX invented Jet Perforating. 
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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Yea. I hate laying the gun down after a misfire, always nervous. When you work with some of the wireline crews I do, you get used to it. I just don't stand right next to the guns.
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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They used to perforate by dropping some nitro glycerine down the hole. Those guys were nuts. If the well kicked off after they dropped it, they'd just stand there and catch it on its way back out.
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Re: The Biggest Gun You'll See Outside of the Military
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05/02/13 11:51 PM
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They used to perforate by dropping some nitro glycerine down the hole. Those guys were nuts. If the well kicked off after they dropped it, they'd just stand there and catch it on its way back out. Probably why there were always job openings in the patch. 
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