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Optiq Seismic fiber-optic borehole seismic solution

Aligned with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:
12—Responsible consumption and production,
13—Climate action, 14—Life below water.

Significantly improves the efficiency of borehole seismic acquisitions while lowering the cost
and environmental impact
Emissions Reduction:
Reduces acquisition time by
up to 99% to significantly
reduce C02e emissions.

Applications
■ Reservoir evaluation, imaging, and definition
■ Vertical seismic profile (VSP) imaging
■ Reservoir monitoring (microseismic, induced
seismicity, and time-lapse 4D monitoring)
■ Checkshots for seismic calibration
■ Drilling solutions

Benefits
■ Improves efficiency of borehole seismic
acquisition by eliminating the need for a
dedicated seismic descent, reducing costs
and acquisitions time, therefore significantly
lowering energy consumption
and carbon emissions.
■ Leverages distributed acoustic sensing (DAS)
technology to obtain real-time measurements
■ Offers deployment flexibility:
● Permanent fiber installation
● Fiber clamped to production tubing
● Optiq TuffLINE* torque-balanced fiber-optic
wireline conveyance for borehole seismic
acquisition during evaluation services
● Optiq StreamLINE* polymer-locked
fiber-optic wireline conveyance for
borehole seismic acquisition during
production services
■ Uses cloud-native workflows to deliver end-to-
end solutions from planning and processing to
actionable insights
■ Enables optimizing a full field development
plan to potentially reduce the number of wells
■ Reduces seismic source effort to minimize
the impact to marine mammals
■ Reduces reservoir uncertainty with full-
coverage, high-resolution imaging
■ Simplifies and streamlines project
management, logistics, and supply chain
■ Provides AFE assurance by mitigating
downhole failure and fishing risk
Optiq TuffLINE torque-balanced fiber-optic wireline conveyance with industry-leading safe working load (SWL)
of up to 18,000 lbf.
How it improves borehole seismic acquisition
The Optiq Seismic* fiber-optic borehole seismic solution is a technological breakthrough for
borehole seismic applications. It leverages DAS technology, digital workflows, cloud-native
software, and unique conveyances to reduce data acquisition and processing time by up to 99%.
This new solution acquires zero-offset, walkaway, 3D seismic, 4D reservoir monitoring, and
many more VSPs with 1.5-m spatial resolution—and in minutes compared with the hours or days
required using conventional methods.
Optiq Seismic solution is the industry’s only end-to-end, deployment-agnostic solution that
eliminates the need for a dedicated borehole seismic descent. The solution’s optical interrogator
unit at surface is connected to any optical-fiber cable deployed in a well, from hybrid wireline
logging cable to fiber attached to production tubing or optical fiber permanently cemented
behind casing. The interrogator unit measures the Rayleigh backscattered light to provide a local
measurement of the dynamic strain, which is converted into a geophone-equivalent response.
The Optiq TuffLINE conveyance, with industry-leading SWL, acquires VSPs in any exploration
environment, including deep water. And VSPs can now also be acquired during any production
services run using Optiq StreamLINE conveyance. For permanent fiber-optic installations, data
from multiple wells can be acquired simultaneously without any deferred production.
Because the Optiq Seismic solution makes every logging run or fiber installation an opportunity
for seismic data acquisition, it significantly improves the efficiency of borehole seismic operations
while lowering the cost. No longer is time required for rigging up and down and dedicated-
run deployment of conventional borehole seismic tools. This is because the system is simply
connected to the fiber at surface and records seismic data in conjunction with other stationary
logging services or on its own—simplifying project management, logistics, and supply chain
efforts. A full well profile is recorded for each shot in only minutes, rather than hours for a
conventional tool survey. The full-aperture measurements acquired are suitable for checkshots
for seismic calibration or time-lapse imaging over the life of the field. The Optiq Seismic solution
reduces acquisition time by up to 99% and hence, significantly reduces rig energy consumption
and associated carbon emissions.
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Measurement Specifications
High data quality with reduced operational risk and Output Quantitative phase strain and strain rate
environmental impact
Source Laser Class 1 certified IEC/EN 60825-1:2014
The Optiq Seismic solution acquires data at the speed of light while also
Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive
maintaining data quality by employing a proprietary multifrequency 2004/108/EC
method that enhances the signal-to-noise ratio. Digital planning tools Low Voltage Directive 2006/95/EC
enable presurvey modeling to optimize data quality. Advanced edge Measurement parameters Native output: strain and strain rate
processing capabilities enable wellsite processing to deliver variable Operating principle: coherent phase
gauge-length processing for maximum signal-to-noise ratio in the
Operating wavelength: 1,550 nm
reservoir section while preserving the frequency content of the data
Range: 10 km† at 10 kHz
closer to surface. Furthermore, the denoising workflow delivers high-
Spatial resolution: 1.5 m
resolution images from data acquired during production. And using
Gauge length: 1.5 m to 300 m,
digital microsolutions deployed at the wellsite, it is now possible to software configurable
generate a corridor stack before completing wireline operations. Output sample rate: 0.25 ms, 0.5 ms, 1 ms,
and 2 ms; native rate up to 20 kHz
Overall operational risk is also decreased because there’s minimal
Low-frequency limit: down to 0.001 Hz†
surface equipment and no requirement to run tools in the well, removing
Mud type or weight limitations None
the likelihood of tool sticking or fishing and eliminating the downhole
Combinability Fully combinable with any optical-fiber cable,
failure risk of geophone arrays. And because of the distributed nature
including hybrid wireline logging cable,
of the fiber-optic measurement, unlike the conventional geophone fiber-installed production tubing, and fiber
acquisition method, it is no longer necessary to reposition a geophone permanently cemented behind casing
array and repeat the source positions, reducing the environmental Fiber type: single-mode, multimode, and
impact for both land and marine operations. engineered fiber
Special applications Real-time stacking and correlation of seismic
shot data for wellsite QC with interfacing to
common source controllers
Data exchange architecture to output acquired
data in numerous industry standard and
proprietary formats, including SEG-Y, LDF,
WITSMLTM, and PRODMLTM
Data mirroring support to both primary and
secondary external mirror devices
Real-time source coordinates: yes
GPS time stamp: yes
All specifications are subject to change without notice.
†
Typical value, depending on application and conditions

Mechanical Specifications
Temperature rating Operating: 0 to 50 degC [32 to 122 degF]
Storage: –20 to 70 degC [–4 to 158 degF]
Dimensions Server rack: 955 mm (L) × 574 mm (W) × 333 mm (H)
Optical interrogator: 955 mm (L) × 559 mm (W) × 244 mm (H)
Power Maximum: 600 W
Typical: 400 W
Weight Server rack: 60 kg
Instrument rack: 30 kg
Supply voltage 110 or 230 V
All specifications are subject to change without notice.
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Optiq TuffLINE Conveyance Specifications Optiq StreamLINE Conveyance Specifications
General General
SWL Up to 18,000 lbf [80 kN] SWL† 5,000 lbf [22 kN]
Cable nominal OD 0.534 in [13.564 mm] Cable nominal OD 0.35 in [8.89 mm]
Diameter variation 0.005 in [0.127 mm] Diameter variation 0.003 in [0.076 mm]
Conductor characteristics Optical properties (on shipping reel)
16.6 AWG (helical conductors with Quantity: Two SMF attenuation
fiber optics) Solid bare copper (SBC) with insulation OD: At 1,310 nm ≤0.21 dB/1,000 ft [0.7 dB/km]
0.097 in [2.464 mm] At 1,550 nm ≤0.21 dB/1,000 ft [0.7 dB/km]
16 AWG (helical conductors) Quantity: Four Multimode fiber attenuation
SBC: 0.059 in [1.486 mm] At 850 nm ≤0.91 dB/1,000 ft [3 dB/km]
Insulation OD: 0.097 in [2.464 mm] At 1,300 nm ≤0.21 dB/1,000 ft [0.7 dB/km]
16 AWG (center conductor) Quantity: One Electrical properties
SBC: 0.059 in [1.486 mm] Insulation resistance at 500 V DC >15,000 megohm.1,000 ft [4,572 megohm.km]
Insulation OD: 0.103 in [2.616 mm] DC resistance at 68 degF [20 degC]
Optical properties 18 AWG (center) 6.9 ohm/1,000 ft [22.6 ohm/km]
Single-mode fiber (SMF) 29.2 AWG (serve with tube) 3.7 ohm/1,000 ft [12.1 ohm/km]
attenuation
Capacitance at 1 kHz, 18 AWG 77 pF/ft [252.6 pF/m]
At 1,310 nm 0.14 dB/1,000 ft [ 0.45 dB/km] (center to serve)
At 1,550 nm 0.09 dB/1,000 ft [0.30 dB/km] Voltage, current rating (center 1,050 V DC [742 V rms], 2.6 A
Electrical properties to serve)
Insulation resistance at 500 V DC ≥15,000 megohm.1,000 ft [4,572 megohm.km] Mechanical properties
DC resistance at 68 degF [20 degC] Calculated weight in air 163.7 lbm/1,000 ft [244 kg/km]
16.6 AWG 5 ohm/1,000 ft [16.4 ohm/km] Temperature rating
16 AWG (helical) 4.6 ohm/1,000 ft [15.1 ohm/km] Min. 257 degF [125 degC]
16 AWG (center) 4.4 ohm/1,000 ft [14.4 ohm/km] Max. –40 degF [–40 degC]
Armor 0.9 ohm/1,000 ft [2.8 ohm/km] All specifications are subject to change without notice.
†
Cable should be used with tension devise link and our sealed head with energized seal. Contact
Capacitance at 1 kHz Schlumberger for more information.
16.6 AWG 57 pF/ft [187 pF/m]
16 AWG (helical) 45 pF/ft [148 pF/m]
16 AWG (center) 45 pF/ft [148 pF/m]
Voltage, current rating
16.6 AWG 721 V DC [510 V rms], 2.6 A
16 AWG (helical) 1,100 V DC [778 V rms], 2.6 A
16 AWG (center) 1,605 V DC [1,135 V rms], 2.6 A
Mechanical properties
Calculated weight
In air 522 lbm/1,000 ft [776 kg/km]
In freshwater 421 lbm/1,000 ft [627 kg/km]
Temperature rating
8 hours 375 degF [191 degC]
Unlimited 350 degF [177 degC]
Min. temperature –40 degF [–40 degC]
All specifications are subject to change without notice.

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