Method of placing distributed pressure gauges across screens
AssigneeHalliburton Energy Services, Inc.
InventorsWilliam Mark Richards, Thomas Jules Frosell
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Abstract
A sensing assembly for use in a wellbore comprises a wellbore component disposed in a wellbore tubular string, at least one gauge configured to sense at least one parameter, and at least one sensing link coupled to the at least one gauge. The at least one gauge is disposed at a first location along the wellbore tubular string, and the sensing link is configured to provide communication of at least one parameter from a sensing point at a second location to the first location. The sensing point is radially adjacent the wellbore component.
Claims20
A sensing assembly for use in a wellbore comprising:
- a wellbore component disposed at a first longitudinal location in a wellbore tubular string, wherein the wellbore component is a filter element;
- at least one gauge disposed outside of a radially external surface of the wellbore tubular string and configured to measure at least one parameter of fluid at the first longitudinal location, wherein the at least one gauge is disposed at a second longitudinal location along the wellbore tubular string, the at least one gauge at the second longitudinal location being longitudinally separated from the filter element at the first longitudinal location so that the at least one gauge is not aligned with the filter element in a radial direction that passes through the first longitudinal location;
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- at least one sensing link disposed outside of the wellbore tubular string and coupled to the at least one gauge, wherein the sensing link is configured to provide communication of the at least one parameter from a sensing point at the first longitudinal location to the at least one gauge at the second longitudinal location, wherein the sensing point is outside the filter element and aligned with the filter element in a radial direction that passes through the first longitudinal location, wherein the sensing point is a point along the sensing link, and wherein the sensing link is a fluid communication line.
A method of measuring at least one parameter in a wellbore comprising:
- communicating a parameter of fluid at a first longitudinal location through a sensing link from a sensing point at the first longitudinal location to a gauge disposed outside of a radially external surface of a wellbore tubular, wherein a filter element is disposed about the wellbore tubular, wherein the sensing point is disposed outside the filter element and aligned with the filter element in a radial direction that passes through the first longitudinal location, wherein the sensing point is a point along the sensing link, wherein the sensing link is disposed outside the wellbore tubular, and wherein the sensing link is a fluid communication line;
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- measuring the parameter using the gauge disposed at a second longitudinal location, wherein the gauge at the second longitudinal location is longitudinally separated from the sensing point and from the filter element at the first longitudinal location so that the gauge is not aligned with the filter element in a radial direction that passes through the first longitudinal location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.