Optical Fibre Densimeter For Drilling Muds In Oil Prospecting

Jacques Dugas; Helene Vidal; Daniel Carau

doi:10.1117/12.948871

1 February 1989 Optical Fibre Densimeter For Drilling Muds In Oil Prospecting

Jacques Dugas, Helene Vidal, Daniel Carau

Proceedings Volume 0985, Fiber Optic and Laser Sensors VI; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.948871
Event: O-E/Fiber LASE '88, 1988, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

We describe a low cost optical fibre sensor devoted to the continuous characterization of the density of drilling muds used in oil prospecting. It is constituted by two parallel edge to edge fibres. flee of them permits to light the particles spread in the mud while the other acts at the same time to collect a part of the back-scattered light and to carry back it to a photodetector. With such a device, for the muds used in this field and containing a very high number of particles by unit of volume, the response is always a decreasing function of the density.

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Jacques Dugas, Helene Vidal, and Daniel Carau "Optical Fibre Densimeter For Drilling Muds In Oil Prospecting", Proc. SPIE 0985, Fiber Optic and Laser Sensors VI, (1 February 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.948871

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