Abstract:
Acoustic wave transducer comprising a sensitive element subjected on one face to the pressure variations of an external medium and on the other face to the pressure prevailing in an inner cavity of the body of the transducer, associated with automatic regulation means whereby said cavity communicates either with the external medium or with a source of fluid at a pressure exceeding that of the external medium, depending on the pressure level in said cavity as compared to that of the external medium.
Abstract:
A VSP or reversed VSP type seismic prospecting method according to the invention allows disturbances contained in seismic recordings produced by tube waves propagating along wells and refracted in zones close to the surface to be minimized. The method disperses a gas under pressure, having preferably a high compressibility, capable of absorbing these tube waves. The gas may be generated by an explosive chemical reaction set off in situ, at a certain depth of the well (which may constitute the seismic wave source). The method has an application for seismic prospecting or drilling noise monitoring.
Abstract:
Hydrophone with two unsymmetrically connected sensitive elements. The hydrophone comprises a detection unit including a closed housing (1) delimited by two cups (2, 3) resting against each other, each one being provided with a flexible diaphragm (4) and at least two piezoelectric sensitive elements (6, 8) associated each with electrodes (7, 9), one outside the housing, the other inside the housing. The two sensitive elements are preferably different in size, notably with different diameters. Electrodes (7a, 9a) of the sensitive elements that are not in contact with cups (2, 3) are electrically interconnected and the electrodes in contact with cups (2, 3) are also electrically interconnected. Each detection unit is preferably included in a protective assembly (not shown). The hydrophone can be used for marine seismic monitoring or prospecting for example.
Abstract:
A vibration detector is disclosed. The vibration includes a ring (2) closed at its opposite ends by two ring ends (3, 4), that is externally covered with a sheath (11) made from an elastic material transparent to vibrations, two supporting plates (5) with a flexible central part (6) and a reinforced peripheral part (7) resting on the two ring ends. An inner cavity (8) between the two plates (5) is filled with liquid communicating through ports (10) and sheath (11) with the outside environment. Two sensitive elements (9) such as piezoelectric disks for example are fastened to the flexible central parts (6) on their faces of the interior of the cavity (8). The sensitive elements (9) are well protected from the outside environment and their sensitivity is not substantially influenced by variations in the static pressure. The invention has an application for detection of acoustic or seismic waves.
Abstract:
A textile backing with a decorative weft is manufactured by raising at least one bonding needle across the warp yarn lap of the textile backing, the bonding needle being used to form a locking mesh having a number of loops; retracting the needles under the textile backing; inserting a decorative weft at right angles to the warp yarns; simultaneously raising and shifting the needles and shifting the locking mesh yam in a circular arc movement using binding guides in order to twill the path of the bonding needle, thereby forming a locking mesh for retaining the decorative weft; displacing the binding guides in translation at a top dead center position for flattening the decorative weft yam against the needle; lowering the bonding needles, drawing the mesh-forming yarn, and creating a loop of locking mesh yarn which encloses the decorative weft; and re-shifting the guides in translation at bottom dead center position in preparation for a new cycle.
Abstract:
The mobile seismic system according to the invention is made up by interconnecting reception sections (T1) and of anchoring sections (T2), and possibly emission sections, the assembly being suspended in the well by means of an electro-carrying cable (3). The first sections (T1), which are filled with liquid, are delimited at least partly by a wall transparent to acoustic waves. They contain each one or several hydrophones and an electronic module of acquisition of the signals picked up. The second sections (T2) comprise a body provided with retractable anchoring means (13) and with motor means, either autonomous, or connected, by a hydraulic line running along the reception system, to common motor means located preferably in a lower section so as to be used as a ballast weight. The reception system may be continuous or made up of several parts connected to each other by electric or electro-hydraulic linking means. The system is suitable for seismic prospecting in wells for example.
Abstract:
Electric interconnecting cables fitted with sealed electric connectors resistant to pressure are most often used to connect electrically together various equipments (1) distant from one another and immersed in a conducting liquid such as may be encountered in wellbores. To avoid this relatively costly solution, a process is proposed, wherein the various equipments (1) are linked together through sealed and empty hydraulic pipes or cables (22), so as to form a common space insulated from the external environment, and the electric linking conductors (25) are passed inside the hydraulic cable circuit constituted thereby.
Abstract:
A casing is lowered in a well for production of an underground petroleum deposit. The casing includes a number of tubular sections connected successively to each other by special tubular connectors, at least certain of these being modified, and the casing being cemented in position when installed in the well. These special connectors include housings for one or several sensors and other housings, if necessary, for the electronic acquisition or transmission circuits. The different connectors for the device are interconnected by cables and to an installation on the surface by a multi-line cable for the electrical supply to the electronic modules and transmission of the data acquired. This arrangement permits prewiring of the different connectors, thus simplifying the positioning of the device during operations for equipping the wells.
Abstract:
A device for anchoring a probe in a well by opening at least one arm pivotable with respect to the body of the probe by a spring moving a rod in a guide housing of the body and operating arms. In a closed position of the arm, the rod is locked by a bolt and a hydraulic fluid contained in a chamber and maintained at the same pressure as the pressure external to the probe is used for driving the bolt, when the pressure of this fluid is applied thereto intermittently by an electromagnetic valve.
Abstract:
A mixed device for successively generating in the earth, at the same location, longitudinal and shear waves is disclosed. The device comprises in association a target coupled to the earth surface and having a first striking face substantially parallel thereto and at least one second striking face substantially perpendicular to said first striking face. A guide tube is adapted to be positioned above the first striking face and perpendicularly thereto, and a movable weight is slidable in the guide tube and adapted to strike the first striking face. At least one hammer is articulated to a support rigidly secured to the guide tube and adapted to strike one second striking face of the target. Directional coupling means connect the guide tube to the target in such a manner that the weight sliding in the guide tube directly impinges the first striking face, but such that the guide tube is substantially released from the effect of the hammer impact on a second striking face.