System and method for restoring offshore platform communication
AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorsAkram K. RAGABAN, Zaur ALSANOV
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Abstract
A method for restoring communication to an aging remote facility having a wellhead platform (WHP) coupled to a tie-in platform (TP) by way of a composite copper cable includes determining the existence of electrical continuity between the WHP and TP on at least two cores of the composite copper cable, and establishing digital subscriber line (DSL) communication between the WHP and TP using the at least two cores of the composite copper cable, said establishing comprising communicating data at a first data rate, and changing the first data rate until an optimal data rate is achieved.
Claims15
A method for restoring communication to an aging remote facility having a wellhead platform (WHP) coupled to a tie-in platform (TP) by way of a composite copper cable, the method comprising:
- determining the existence of electrical continuity between the WHP and TP on at least two cores of the composite copper cable;
- and
- establishing digital subscriber line (DSL) communication between the WHP and TP using the at least two cores of the composite copper cable, said establishing comprising communicating data at a first data rate, and changing the first data rate until an optimal data rate is achieved.
A communication system comprising:
- a first DSL switch at a wellhead platform (WHP);
- an RTU (remote terminal unit) at the WHP;
- a second DSL switch at a tie-in platform (TP);
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- a composite copper cable having at least two cores establishing electrical communication between the first and second DSL switches for exchange of RTU data between the WHP and TP.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.