Metal to metal encapsulated of an electrical power cable splice incorporating at least one sensor

Abstract

A method of sealing a downhole electrical cable providing a chamber around the downhole electrical cable defined by a sleeve or outer body member introducing metal alloy into the chamber melting the metal alloy allowing the molten alloy to set such that the electrical cable is encapsulated by the set molten alloy and sealed from the well environment wherein at least one temperature and/or pressure and/or other sensing probe is included having a connection, the at least one temperature and/or pressure probe and/or the connection at least partly within the chamber.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.