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Title: Distributed fibre optic strain sensing of an axially deformed well model in the laboratory

Abstract

Well integrity is crucial in enabling sustainable gas production from methane hydrate reservoirs and real-time distributed monitoring techniques can potentially facilitate proper and timely inspection of well integrity during gas production. Here in this research, the feasibility of distributed fibre optic strain monitoring with Brillouin optical time domain reflectometry/analysis (BOTDR/A) for well monitoring was examined by conducting a laboratory test on a well model subjected to axial tensile deformation, which occurs due to reservoir compaction during gas production. First, the validity of the proposed experimental methodology is assessed by a finite element analysis and theoretical modelling of a well subjected to reservoir compaction. A 3 m long well model is developed from the modelling and is instrumented with different types of fibre optic cables to measure the distributed strain development during tensile loading. Results show that the proposed well model and loading scheme can satisfactorily simulate the axial tensile deformation of the well in the laboratory condition. BOTDR is capable of capturing the tensile strain development of the well model accurately within the limitation of the spatial resolution of the BOTDR measurement. To enable accurate distributed strain monitoring of well deformation with BOTDR/A, the following issues are discussed: tightly bufferedmore » coating layers around optical fibre cores through mechanical compression and/or chemical adhesion, and a small number of coating layers.« less

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  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  3. Toyo Engineering Corporation, Narashino, Chiba (Japan)
  4. Baker Hughes, Houston, TX (United States)
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Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC)
OSTI Identifier:
1580994
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 72; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 1875-5100
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING; Wellbore integrity; Fibre optic monitoring; Methane hydrate; Reservoir compaction

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Sasaki, Tsubasa, Park, Jinho, Soga, Kenichi, Momoki, Taichi, Kawaguchi, Kyojiro, Muramatsu, Hisashi, Imasato, Yutaka, Balagopal, Ajit, Fontenot, Jerod, and Hall, Travis. Distributed fibre optic strain sensing of an axially deformed well model in the laboratory. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1016/j.jngse.2019.103028.
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Sasaki, Tsubasa, Park, Jinho, Soga, Kenichi, Momoki, Taichi, Kawaguchi, Kyojiro, Muramatsu, Hisashi, Imasato, Yutaka, Balagopal, Ajit, Fontenot, Jerod, & Hall, Travis. Distributed fibre optic strain sensing of an axially deformed well model in the laboratory. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jngse.2019.103028
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Sasaki, Tsubasa, Park, Jinho, Soga, Kenichi, Momoki, Taichi, Kawaguchi, Kyojiro, Muramatsu, Hisashi, Imasato, Yutaka, Balagopal, Ajit, Fontenot, Jerod, and Hall, Travis. Thu . "Distributed fibre optic strain sensing of an axially deformed well model in the laboratory". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jngse.2019.103028. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1580994.
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@article{osti_1580994,
title = {Distributed fibre optic strain sensing of an axially deformed well model in the laboratory},
author = {Sasaki, Tsubasa and Park, Jinho and Soga, Kenichi and Momoki, Taichi and Kawaguchi, Kyojiro and Muramatsu, Hisashi and Imasato, Yutaka and Balagopal, Ajit and Fontenot, Jerod and Hall, Travis},
abstractNote = {Well integrity is crucial in enabling sustainable gas production from methane hydrate reservoirs and real-time distributed monitoring techniques can potentially facilitate proper and timely inspection of well integrity during gas production. Here in this research, the feasibility of distributed fibre optic strain monitoring with Brillouin optical time domain reflectometry/analysis (BOTDR/A) for well monitoring was examined by conducting a laboratory test on a well model subjected to axial tensile deformation, which occurs due to reservoir compaction during gas production. First, the validity of the proposed experimental methodology is assessed by a finite element analysis and theoretical modelling of a well subjected to reservoir compaction. A 3 m long well model is developed from the modelling and is instrumented with different types of fibre optic cables to measure the distributed strain development during tensile loading. Results show that the proposed well model and loading scheme can satisfactorily simulate the axial tensile deformation of the well in the laboratory condition. BOTDR is capable of capturing the tensile strain development of the well model accurately within the limitation of the spatial resolution of the BOTDR measurement. To enable accurate distributed strain monitoring of well deformation with BOTDR/A, the following issues are discussed: tightly buffered coating layers around optical fibre cores through mechanical compression and/or chemical adhesion, and a small number of coating layers.},
doi = {10.1016/j.jngse.2019.103028},
journal = {Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering},
number = C,
volume = 72,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Oct 10 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Thu Oct 10 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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