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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2017
Limin Song, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Yibing Zhang, Annandale, NJ (US);
Katie M. Walker, Milford, NJ (US);
Henry Alan Wolf, Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Limin Song, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Yibing Zhang, Annandale, NJ (US);
Katie M. Walker, Milford, NJ (US);
Henry Alan Wolf, Morris Plains, NJ (US);
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
An electro-acoustic communications node system and method for downhole wireless telemetry, the system including a housing for mounting to or with a tubular body; a receiver transducer positioned within the housing, the receiver transducer structured and arranged to receive acoustic waves that propagate through the tubular member; a transmitter transducer and a processor, positioned within the housing and arranged to retransmit the acoustic waves to another acoustic receiver in a different housing, using the tubular member for the acoustic telemetry. In some embodiments, the transducers may be piezoelectric transducers and/or magnetostrictive transducers. Included in the housing is also a power source comprising one or more batteries. A downhole wireless telemetry system and a method of monitoring a hydrocarbon well are also provided.