Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Hydraulic-Fracturing Monitoring and Diagnostics

摘要

Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) is a fiber-optic technology that enables detecting, discriminating, and locating acoustic events with a standard telecom single-mode fiber several kilometers in length. Use of a combination of the measurement of backscattered light and advanced signal processing enables the DAS interrogator system to segregate the fiber into an array of individual "microphones." One downhole application of DAS is monitoring hydraulic fracturing of tight-sand and shale-gas reservoirs.