And the main way they do it is through what they call hydraulic fracturing, which after they drill the well bore, they perforate it.

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Next up is to re-perforate the well so that new holes are created to get to the hydrocarbon reservoir and bypass the ones that are plugged up.

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Abrams, is the most streamlined to date, with a succession of gargantuan set pieces (the best of them in the Vatican) and dogged attempts to perforate the eardrums of the audience.

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The second glaring item of the many problems that the operator has faced was the failure of the newly designed remote control guns that Schlumberger insisted would successfully perforate the casing.

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In public announcements, EXXI and MMR have repeatedly indicated that the production plan is to complete the well, install all required equipment, connect to a pipeline and to perforate the well in mid-December.

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