Shell Oil Comapny

Barbara Ellen Cox

Daniel Joinson

Peter Berkeley Wills

Menno Mathieu Molenaar

Johannes Maria Vianney Antonius Koelman

A method for determining the physical location of a fiber optic channel in a fiber optic cable comprises the steps of a) providing at least one location key having a known physical location, b) establishing the location of the location key with respect to the fiber optic channel, and c) using the location information established in step b) to determine the physical location of the channel. The location key may comprises an acoustic source, a section of fiber optic cable that is acoustically masked, or at least one magnetic field source and step b) comprises using a Lorentz force to establish the location of the magnetic field source with respect to the fiber optic channel.

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Calgary, Canada

Barbara Ellen Cox