Communications: electrical – Wellbore telemetering or control – Using a specific transmission medium
Patent
1986-03-06
1988-04-19
Brown, David H.
Communications: electrical
Wellbore telemetering or control
Using a specific transmission medium
324342, 364422, G01V 100, G01V 310
Patent
active
047393254
ABSTRACT:
An MWD EM data/control telemetry link between down-hole instruments and ground surface instruments dynamically adapts to the underground electrical environment utilizing a down-hole microprocessor unit and a surface data processing unit (computer) each of which continuously monitors, probes and sweeps the frequency spectrum with EM signals to determine an optimum frequency for signal transmission between the respective units via either the drill string, the surrounding strata, or both, and then generates and digitally modulates a carrier signal at such optimum frequency with data/control signals.
A particular feature of the communication system is a combination of a sensing toroid and insulated gaps interrupting electrical continuity so as to force all currents propagating in the strata and pipe string to flow through the axial opening of the sensing toroid via a conduction path dictated by considerations of electrical design rather than by mechanical constraints, thus enabling the effective electrical length of the drill string below the down-hole module to be optimized.
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Brown David H.
MacLeod Laboratories, Inc.
Steinberger Brian S.
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