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Vol. 59 No. 9

September 2007

Reservoir Performance and Monitoring

Real-Time Fiber-Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing: Oilfield Applications

Reservoir-performance monitoring can provide real-time information for more-timely operating decisions. Often, the data can be collected without performing an intervention. One reservoir-monitoring technique is fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing (DTS). DTS can provide a temperature profile of the entire wellbore in real time, which, in turn, can provide an enhanced under-standing of the downhole flow (or injection) profile.

View a Synopsis of SPE 103069 as published in JPT.

This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper SPE 103069, “Real-Time Fiber-Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS)—New Applications in the Oil Field,” by D.K. Nath, D.B. Finley, SPE, and J.D. Kaura, SPE, Halliburton Energy Services, and B. Krismartopo, SPE, and W. Yudhiarto, SPE, PT Chevron Pacific Indonesia, prepared for the 2006 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas, 24–27 September.

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