Transcripción del resumen del autor. Successful hydrocarbon production in the San Jorge basin requires precise understanding of the great variability in reservoir and fluid properties to determine the reservoir production capacity and achieve the optimum wellbore – reservoir connectivity during perforating. Efforts to increase hydrocarbon production in the Cerro Dragon area of the San Jorge Gulf basin have been fueled by a combination of the latest formation evaluation, such Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and perforating technologies associated with the extensive experience acquired during several years of team work between the operator and the service company. The operator’s needs for a method to help optimize well productivity and, at the same time, be cost effective without compromising the results of the operation required an improvement over traditional tubingconveyed perforation (TCP). A propellant-assisted perforating (PAP) method that could optimize well productivity while maintaining stringent health safety and environmental standards was proposed. The PAP method uses an oxidizer that creates carbon dioxide gas at extremely high peak pressures in the millisecond time regime to overcome in-situ stress and creates perforation breakdown and mild fracturing near the wellbore. Standard perforating components and procedures are used, which provides the same safety features as when conventional TCP operations are used. This paper focuses on different applications for the PAP method. It also describes the benefits of its use in the San Jorge basin, including enhancing connectivity beyond a damaged zone for better production and near the water contact, where hydraulic fracturing is not feasible, as well as reducing the hydraulic horsepower required for perforation breakdown to obtain production from marginal wells and pre-frac stimulation.