Evaluating Wellbore Telemetry Systems

摘要

Evaluating wellbore telemetry systems. Multiple evaluation signals are serially transmitted to multiple serially connected components of a wellbore telemetry system disposed in a wellbore. Each component is addressable by a respective one of the multiple evaluation signals. In response to serially transmitting the multiple evaluation signals, multiple communication links to the multiple components are evaluated based on a respective multiple responses to the multiple evaluation signals.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method to evaluate a wellbore telemetry system, the method comprising:
serially transmitting a plurality of evaluation signals to a plurality of serially connected components of a wellbore telemetry system disposed in a wellbore, each component addressable by a respective one of the plurality of evaluation signals; and in response to serially transmitting the plurality of evaluation signals, evaluating a plurality of communication links to the plurality of components based on a respective plurality of responses to the plurality of evaluation signals; and wherein evaluating a communication link to a component based on a response to a respective one of the plurality of evaluation signals transmitted to the component comprises:
transmitting an evaluation signal to the component a threshold number of times;determining a number of responses to transmitting the evaluation signal to the component the threshold number of times; anddetermining a ratio of the number of responses to the threshold number of times the evaluation signal is transmitted to the component.