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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2012
Alastair Godfrey, Farnborough, GB;
Alastair Godfrey, Farnborough, GB;
Optasense Holdings Limited, , GB;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for determining the relative orientation of objects downwell, and especially to determining perforator orientation, involves varying the orientation of an object, such as a perforator gun () in the wellbore () and activating at least one directional acoustic source (-). Each directional acoustic source is fixed in a predetermined location to the object and transmits an acoustic signal preferentially in a known direction. The directional acoustic sources are activated so as to generate sound in a plurality of different orientations of said object. An optical fiber () is interrogated to provide distributed acoustic sensing in the vicinity of the object; and the acoustic signals detected by the optical fiber are analyzed to determine the orientation of the at least one directional acoustic source relative to the optical fiber, for instance by looking at the relative intensity in the different orientations.