Solutions | By productsLxIQ™ is a state of the art powerful optical distributed temperature monitoring system for extremely harsh down hole environments. The key challenges of providing quality instrumentation in extremely harsh environments is related to long term reliability of the downhole sensing cable, instruments and the data quality and accuracy over the long term due to drift. Degradation of basic materials such as glass in high temperature high hydrogen environments is one of the fundamental challenges faced by all optical systems. In addition to providing a unique, patented technology which has been developed and validated for these extreme environments, LxDATA has also architected and implemented a system architecture with accompanying service offerings that provides customers years of peace of mind and effortless assurance that In Situ measurements are being made reliably and with high accuracy.
LxIQ™ One Platform for Pressure and Temperature:
Feature and Benefits
The LxIQ™ solution has been designed to simplify and cost-reduce the operations environment associated with instrumenting SAGD wells. Through one integrated platform, LxIQ™ gathers real time synchronized and correlated pressure and multi-point temperature measurements for all Pad applications. The LxIQ™ solutions uses one data acquisition unit housed at a customer designated MCC room to monitor both temperature and pressure for applications such as Horizontal Producer and Injector well monitoring, ESP pump monitoring, and Observation well monitoring. Through an optimized PAD level architecture, the customer can achieve flexibility in his downhole instrumentation decisions. Integrated fiber optic based Temperature and Pressure Sensing cables can be designed and deployed when and where required in a plug and play fashion. All downhole sensors use the same technology for temperature and pressure and are monitored by one system that easily connects to the customer DCS. All this serves to minimize downhole space and MCC room requirements, while dramatically reducing over-all operational costs associated with instrumentation.
All these feature combine to create a thermal and pressure monitoring solution that goes beyond distributed sensing architecture to a more powerful pad-level architecture, one that integrates into one central interrogation and processing unit, a full suite of horizontal/vertica/specialist sensing strings to deliver a real-time, pad level representation of the thermal environment. This creates new possibilities in advanced imaging, reservoir modeling, and ultimately process optimization.
LxDATA LxIQ™ Multi-Point OTC-OPTICAL THERMOCOUPLE real-time, high temperature, multipoint sensing system;
- For improved reservoir production efficiencies.
- Lowers operational costs and improves recovery in SAGD steam management and in-situ thermal process.
- Can be configured for permenent installation during conditioning and completion periods.
The OTC-OPTICAL THERMOCOUPLE series of multipoint temperature cable is designed to provide continuous temperature measurements at definable points along it length. To guarantee long term accurate operation in extreme temperatures and in harsh environments the OTC-0PTICAL THERMOCOUPLE applies advanced technologies in optical sensor production, fiber processing and rugged cable construction.
LxDATA LxIQ™ P/T Guage
The LxDATA fiber optic pressure-temperature OPT gauge provides a step change in reliability and performance in the measurement of pressure and temperature in harsh down-hole environments.
By using multiple factory calibrated miniature optical sensing elements inside the P/T gauge, accurate temperature compensated pressure and temperature the customer benefits from calibrated compensated and validated Pressure and Temperature data from the well to the desktop.
Documents
LxIQ Preliminary Reliability White Paper (PDF)
LxIQ High Temperature Thermal Monitoring White Paper (PDF)
Product Guides
LxIQ Product Overview (PDF)
LxIQ Product Guide (PDF)
LxIQ Product Guide Electronic Submersible Pump (PDF)
Brochures
LxIQ Thermal Monitoring (PDF)
LxIQ Pressure Monitoring (PDF)
LxIQ System (PDF)