Optical fiber cables for wellbore applications
AssigneeSchlumberger Technology Corporation
InventorsJoseph Varkey, Ravicharan Mydur, Noor Sait, Willem Wijnberg, Sumitra Kunathikom, Monica Darpi
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Abstract
A cable which includes conductor bundles prepared from at least one optical fiber positioned either centrally or helically about the center axis of the bundle, metallic conductors helically positioned around the bundles center axis, and a polymeric insulation material. A method of making a cable including forming a conductor bundle by placing helically positioned conductors and optical fibers about the periphery of a central optical fiber or metallic conductor, encasing the conductors, optical fibers, in a polymeric insulation material, and grouping the conductor bundles together.
Claims13
A cable comprising a plurality of conductor bundles, wherein each of said conductor bundles comprises:
- at least one optical fiber positioned either centrally or helically about the center axis of said conductor bundle;
- at least one metallic conductor helically positioned around said center axis of said conductor bundle;
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- one or more polymeric insulation materials disposed about said optical fiber and metallic conductor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.