Patent 8347963 was granted and assigned to Schlumberger on January, 2013 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method of perforating a well includes selecting a desired transient underbalanced condition, configuring a perforating gun string to achieve the transient underbalanced condition, deploying the perforating gun is a wellbore, and firing the perforating to achieve the transient underbalanced condition.