What is the difference between traditional, digital and fiber optic slicklines?

20 Jan 2021

Today’s oil and gas industry challenges require companies to deploy the most up-to-date technologies or upgrade the current ones as an alternative to the traditional mechanical wireline services.

Standard slickline servicing for the oil and gas industry can provide an effective well maintenance by deploying and manipulating the downhole tools. For many decades, slicklines and wirelines are used in well interventions that provide data with limited accuracy and acquisition frequency. The results depend very much on the skills of the operator and the quality of used tools. With the introduction of new disruptive technologies, these limitations have now overcome, for example, with the introduction of fiber optic (FO) slickline — the slickline/wireline becomes a distributed sensor along the whole length hence turning the full length of the slickline into a dense chain of passive segments, each one transformed into measurement gauge sensitive to external perturbation and physical quantities, detecting and measuring temperature, sound/acoustic, strain and pressure.

Wires&Bytes, which is at the forefront of the technology, have looked ahead and developed and offer FO slicklines and FO wirelines based on advanced fiber optic distributed sensing technology, DFOS. Wires&Bytes slickline tracks and monitors well activities delivering cost-effective data from the downhole allowing to make the quickest desicions for operators and owners, in many cases at wellsite.

 

The timely availability of well health information is critical to the oil and gas companies, where decisions hinge on the availability of useful data to implement it quickly and efficiently. The DFOS based slickline and wireline is an efficient and reliable tool, saving time and operating cost to the well operator, providing real-time information from the wells through an intelligent monitoring and allowing to identify and rectify issues and flaws in a timely manner.

Are you ready for advanced fiber optic sensing for precise well data at the speed of light? Let us know all your requirements and we will provide you with the monitoring solutions which are reliable, cost-effective and would increase your Return-on-Investment (ROI).

For further read, please go for Wires&Bytes “Slickline Measurements: The Future is NOW!”.