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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2004
Nolan C. Lerche, Stafford, TX (US);
James E. Brooks, Manvel, TX (US);
Choon Fei Wong, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Nolan C. Lerche, Stafford, TX (US);
James E. Brooks, Manvel, TX (US);
Choon Fei Wong, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Abstract
A system includes a well tool for deployment in a well, a controller, and a link coupled between the controller and the well tool. The well tool comprises plural control units, each of the plural control units having a microprocessor and an initiator coupled to the microprocessor. Each microprocessor is adapted to communicate bi-directionally with the controller. The controller is adapted to send a plurality of activation commands to respective microprocessors to activate the respective control units. Each activation command containing a unique identifier corresponding to a respective control unit.