OIL & GAS For decades, electrical sensors have been used down hole to measure pressure, temperature, and flow. Sensors are used to maximize production while minimizing risk to humans, the environment, and the production equipment.
Fiber optic sensors are now in use where traditional electrical sensors perform poorly or not at all. Fiber optic sensors typically last longer in these harsh environments, provide more reliable data, offer an attractive small size, and perform in situations where the actual sensor readings must be many tens of kilometers away from the well head. Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) optical sensors are particularly attractive as pressure sensors and in long arrays with many temperature sensing points.
Case Study:
Williams Pipeline, Washington & Oregon, USA 2008
Other applications related to oil and gas where FBG sensors are ideal include monitoring for pipelines, off-shore platforms, storage facilities, tankers, and refineries. Passive fibers with long range capability provide explosion proof monitoring of these critical assets.
Micron Optics has many customers in the Oil and Gas industy including:
Micron Optics provides FBG based sensing products that enable the highest degree of measurement precision, resolution, and accuracy while offering the benefits of extended durability, ease of installation, and small physical footprint.
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September 1, 2011 -- Micron Optics releases new 2MHz optical sensing module, the sm690 - Product Release
July 29, 2011 -- Micron Optics releases new displacement gage, the os5100 - Press Release
June 28, 2011 -- Micron Optics Optical Monitoring System Installed on Mount Rushmore - Event
December 11-15, 2011 -- Micron Optics to exhibit at 5th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure in Cancun, Mexico. - Event
October 10-12 -- Micron Optics to exhibit at Sensors Tech Forum in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. - More News & Events