Weatherford Reservoir Monitoring Technology Optimizes Well and Formation Performance

摘要

Weatherford reservoir monitoring systems include both electronic and fiber optical pressure and temperature (PT) gauges and opticalhydroacoustic flowmeters. The main advantage of fiber-optic systems is that they do not contain downhole electronics, whereas opticalsensors - which operate based on the Bragg grating optical technology - are non-ageing, exclusively tolerant to vibration action, excessivetemperature and pressure with very good metrological characteristics. Optical hydroacoustic flowmeters of Weatherford represents a new class of flow measurement technology, which utilizes the principles ofhydroacoustic velocity measuring vortex flow of mixture - the SONAR technology, as well as measuring sound velocity, pressure and tem-perature. This technology allows to significantly improving performance and data reliability compared to the existing systems.