Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Topside interrogation using multiple lasers for distributed acoustic sensing of subsea wells
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Application No.: US17095065Application Date: 2020-11-11
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Publication No.: US11352877B2Publication Date: 2022-06-07
- Inventor: Andreas Ellmauthaler , John Laureto Maida, Jr. , Glenn Andrew Wilson
- Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston
- Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston
- Agency: C. Tumey Law Group PLLC
- Agent John Wustenberg
- Main IPC: E21B47/135
- IPC: E21B47/135 ; E21B47/002 ; E21B47/001

Abstract:
A distributed acoustic system (DAS) may include an interrogator that includes two or more lasers, a pulser module disposed after and connected to each of the two or more lasers, a wavelength division multiplexer (WDM), wherein each of the pulser modules are connected to the WDM as inputs, and a downhole fiber attached to the WDM as an output and wherein the downhole fiber includes at least one sensing fiber. A method for increasing a sampling frequency may include identifying a length of a downhole fiber connected to an interrogator, generating and launching a light pulse from each of the two or more lasers the pulser module, and delaying an output from the pulser module into the downhole fiber by k N seconds, where k is a pulse repetition interval of the pulser module and N is equal to the two or more lasers.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220145755A1 Topside Interrogation Using Multiple Lasers For Distributed Acoustic Sensing Of Subsea Wells Public/Granted day:2022-05-12
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