Disposable telemetry cable deployment system

Patent · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2000

OSTI ID:872927

Holcomb, David Joseph ^[1]

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1. Sandia Park, NM

A disposable telemetry cable deployment system for facilitating information retrieval while drilling a well includes a cable spool adapted for insertion into a drill string and an unarmored fiber optic cable spooled onto the spool cable and having a downhole end and a stinger end. Connected to the cable spool is a rigid stinger which extends through a kelly of the drilling apparatus. A data transmission device for transmitting data to a data acquisition system is disposed either within or on the upper end of the rigid stinger.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• Assignee: Gas Research Institute (Chicago, IL)
• Patent Number(s): US 6041872
• OSTI ID: 872927
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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cable
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optic
spooled
downhole
stinger
connected
rigid
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kelly
apparatus
data
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device
transmitting
acquisition
disposed
upper
data transmission
data acquisition
fiber optic
optic cable
drill string
transmitting data
drilling apparatus
telemetry cable
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information retrieval
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disposable telemetry
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