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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2013
Stuart R. Keller, Houston, TX (US);
Timothy I. Morrow, Humble, TX (US);
Max Deffenbaugh, Fulshear, TX (US);
Mark M. Disko, Glen Gardner, NJ (US);
David A. Stiles, Spring, TX (US);
Stuart R. Keller, Houston, TX (US);
Timothy I. Morrow, Humble, TX (US);
Max Deffenbaugh, Fulshear, TX (US);
Mark M. Disko, Glen Gardner, NJ (US);
David A. Stiles, Spring, TX (US);
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
A system for downhole telemetry employs a series of communications nodes spaced along a tubular body such as a pipe in a wellbore. The nodes allow hybrid wired-and-wireless communication between one or more sensors residing at the level of a subsurface formation and a receiver at the surface. The nodes employ electro-acoustic transducers providing node-to-node communication up a wellbore at high data transmission rates. A method of transmitting data in a wellbore uses a plurality of data transmission nodes situated along a tubular body to deliver an alternating electrical and acoustic transmission of data along the wellbore.