API RP 19B (R2011)

API RP 19B (R2011) PDF

This Recommended Practice describes standard procedures for evaluating the performance of perforating equipment so that representations of this performance may be made to the industry under a standard practice. This Recommended Practice contains tests to gauge performance under the following conditions:

• Ambient temperature and pressure
• Simulated wellbore (stressed Berea Sandstone)
• Elevated Temperature

This edition also introduces a procedure to quantify the amount of debris that comes out of the perforating gun during detonation.