Successful Experience of Estimating Injection Flow Profile in Horizontal Wells Completed with Multistage Fracs in Conventional Reservoirs Using CT Conveyed Distributed Temperature Sensing

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Malanya ◽  
K. Butula ◽  
K. Burdin ◽  
M. Khaziev ◽  
S. Kuzmin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Horizontal Wells ◽  
Temperature Sensing ◽  
Flow Profile ◽  
Distributed Temperature Sensing ◽  
Injection Flow

Horizontal-Steam-Injection-Flow Profiling Using Fiber Optics

SPE Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (02) ◽  
pp. 431-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.. Shirdel ◽  
R. S. Buell ◽  
M. J. Wells ◽  
C.. Muharam ◽  
J. C. Sims
Keyword(s):  
Fiber Optics ◽  
Fiber Optic ◽  
Steam Injection ◽  
Flow Profile ◽  
Distributed Temperature Sensing ◽  
Flow Loop ◽  
Conformance Control ◽  
Well Completion ◽  
Injection Flow ◽  
Optic Systems

Summary Steam-conformance control in horizontal injectors is important for efficient reservoir-heat management in heavy-oil fields. Suboptimal conformance and nonuniform heating of the reservoir can substantially affect the economics of the field development and oil-production response and result in nonuniform steam breakthrough. To achieve the required control, it is essential to have an appropriate well-completion architecture and robust surveillance. Five fiber-optic systems, each with a unique steam-conformance-control-completion configuration, have been installed in two horizontal steam injectors to help mature steam-injection-flow profiling and conformance-control solutions. These fiber-optic systems have used custom-designed fiber-optic bundles of multimode and single-mode fibers for distributed-temperature sensing (DTS) and distributed-acoustic sensing (DAS), respectively. Fiber-optic systems were also installed in a steam-injection-test-flow loop. All the optical fibers successfully acquired data in the wells and flow loop, measuring temperature and acoustic energy. A portfolio of algorithms and signal-processing techniques was developed to interpret the DTS and DAS data for quantitative steam-injection-flow profiling. The heavily instrumented flow-loop environment was used to characterize DTS and DAS response in a design-of-experiment (DOE) matrix to improve the flow-profiling algorithms. These algorithms are dependent on independent physical principles derived from multiphase flow, thermal hydraulic models, acoustic effects, large-data-array processing, and combinations of these methods for both transient and steady-state steam flow. A high-confidence flow profile is computed using the convergence of the algorithms. The flow-profiling-algorithm results were further validated using 11 short-offset injector observation wells wells in the reservoir that confirmed steam movement near the injectors.

High-spatial-resolution Distributed Temperature Sensing System Based on a Mode-locked Fiber Laser

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton O. Chernutsky ◽  
Dmitriy A. Dvoretskiy ◽  
Ilya O. Orekhov ◽  
Stanislav G. Sazonkin ◽  
Yan Zh. Ososkov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fiber Laser ◽  
Spatial Resolution ◽  
High Spatial Resolution ◽  
Temperature Sensing ◽  
Distributed Temperature Sensing ◽  
Sensing System

scholarly journals Thermodynamics of a fast-moving Greenlandic outlet glacier revealed by fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (20) ◽  
pp. eabe7136
Author(s):  
Robert Law ◽  
Poul Christoffersen ◽  
Bryn Hubbard ◽  
Samuel H. Doyle ◽  
Thomas R. Chudley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fiber Optic ◽  
Basal Layer ◽  
Temperature Sensing ◽  
Distributed Temperature Sensing ◽  
Catchment Scale ◽  
Outlet Glacier ◽  
Coarse Spatial Resolution ◽  
High Vertical Resolution ◽  
Fast Motion ◽  
Strain Heating

Measurements of ice temperature provide crucial constraints on ice viscosity and the thermodynamic processes occurring within a glacier. However, such measurements are presently limited by a small number of relatively coarse-spatial-resolution borehole records, especially for ice sheets. Here, we advance our understanding of glacier thermodynamics with an exceptionally high-vertical-resolution (~0.65 m), distributed-fiber-optic temperature-sensing profile from a 1043-m borehole drilled to the base of Sermeq Kujalleq (Store Glacier), Greenland. We report substantial but isolated strain heating within interglacial-phase ice at 208 to 242 m depth together with strongly heterogeneous ice deformation in glacial-phase ice below 889 m. We also observe a high-strain interface between glacial- and interglacial-phase ice and a 73-m-thick temperate basal layer, interpreted as locally formed and important for the glacier’s fast motion. These findings demonstrate notable spatial heterogeneity, both vertically and at the catchment scale, in the conditions facilitating the fast motion of marine-terminating glaciers in Greenland.

scholarly journals A Thermal Model for Three-Core Armored Submarine Cables Based on Distributed Temperature Sensing

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (13) ◽  
pp. 3897
Author(s):  
Miguel Ángel González-Cagigal ◽  
Juan Carlos del-Pino-López ◽  
Alfonso Bachiller-Soler ◽  
Pedro Cruz-Romero ◽  
José Antonio Rosendo-Macías
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Sensing ◽  
The Finite Element Method ◽  
Current Profile ◽  
Distributed Temperature Sensing ◽  
Numerical Resolution ◽  
Electromagnetic Model ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Relative Errors ◽  
Dynamic Loading Conditions ◽  
Submarine Cables

This paper presents a procedure for the derivation of an equivalent thermal network-based model applied to three-core armored submarine cables. The heat losses of the different metallic cable parts are represented as a function of the corresponding temperatures and the conductor current, using a curve-fitting technique. The model was applied to two cables with different filler designs, supposed to be equipped with distributed temperature sensing (DTS) and the optical fiber location in the equivalent circuit was adjusted so that the conductor temperature could be accurately estimated using the sensor measurements. The accuracy of the proposed model was tested for both stationary and dynamic loading conditions, with the corresponding simulations carried out using a hybrid 2D-thermal/3D-electromagnetic model and the finite element method for the numerical resolution. Mean relative errors between 1 and 3% were obtained using an actual current profile. The presented procedure can be used by cable manufacturers or by utilities to properly evaluate the cable thermal situation.

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