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Shock-Wave Tool
The Latest Oil-Well Stimulation Enhancement Tool
The Sonic Shock-Wave tool This pulse or burst forms a fluid shock wave in the well-bore fluid. The fluid
shock wave will travel spherically from its point of origin through the well-bore
is a well stimulation enhancement fluid and into the formation as far as there is fluid. The sonic tool intensifies
well stimulation treatments with the use of less treating fluids.
apparatus that creates a fluid shock
The Sonic Shock-Wave tool can be ran in 4 different methods:
wave that travels through fluid into Below a packer (referred to as the Isolation Method)
formation that is being treated. Between 2 packers (referred to as the Straddle Packer Method)
Between a packer and a bridge plug
Ran on its own
When the Sonic Tool is used with any of these methods, the fluid shock wave
becomes trapped intensifying the effect on the treated formation.