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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2022

Filed:

Mar. 22, 2018
Applicant:

Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Dhruv Arora, Houston, TX (US);

Matheus Norbertus Baaijens, Rijswijk, NL;

Stephen Palmer Hirshblond, Houston, TX (US);

Derrick Melanson, Houston, TX (US);

Brian Kelly McCoy, Houston, TX (US);

Assignee:

SHELL OIL COMPANY, Houston, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 17/00 (2006.01); E21B 47/092 (2012.01); E21B 47/135 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 17/003 (2013.01); E21B 47/092 (2020.05); E21B 47/135 (2020.05);
Abstract

A metal wellbore tubular wall of a wellbore tubular, having a cable system arranged on an outside thereof, is to be perforated downhole. The cable system contains a fiber-optic cable, and a magnetic-permeability element with a relative magnetic permeability μof at least 2,000, such as an electrical steel, is configured along a length of the fiber-optic cable. The cable system is located by sensing the magnetic-permeability element through the metal wellbore tubular wall, using a magetic orienting tool which is being lowered into the wellbore tubular. subsequently, the metal wellbore tubular wall is perforated in a direction away from the cable system.


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