Schlumberger and Sintela to Advance Fiber-Optic Solutions Across Multiple Industries
Schlumberger and Sintela have signed an agreement to co-develop new fiber-optic solutions for multiple industrial markets. Schlumberger will market and deliver the solutions in the energy, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and geothermal industries, with Sintela delivering the combined solutions to other industrial markets. The solutions will integrate intellectual property (IP) from Sintela’s distributed fiber-optic sensing (DFOS) portfolio with IP from Optiq Schlumberger fiber-optic solutions, enabling simpler, cost-efficient fiber-optic interrogator deployments and new digital workflow capabilities for improving the operational performance of Schlumberger’s customers.
“Working together with Sintela, we will deliver a range of fiber-optic solutions that enhance measurement data handling capability at the edge, rapidly delivering actionable insights to our upstream and midstream customers in domains such as geophysics, well integrity, production monitoring and pipeline monitoring,” said Aparna Raman, president, Reservoir Performance, Schlumberger. “Sintela brings years of cross-industry R&D knowledge and experience with DFOS technologies—including optical interrogators—that we will leverage with our combined IP and industry domain knowledge to accelerate the pace of innovation, deploy solutions at scale, and develop more integrated and open workflows with customers, leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).”
“Schlumberger’s position as a leader in the energy industry, combined with their full suite of development technologies and digital workflows, made them the ideal alliance partner to co-develop these fiber-optic solutions,” said Magnus McEwen-King, CEO of Sintela. “Our technology, combined with Schlumberger’s technology, footprint and domain expertise, will help customers in the energy, CCS, geothermal and other industries rapidly receive improved insights from edge processing of large data volumes acquired on fiber-optic sensors.”
The first co-developed fiber-optic solutions for midstream are already available for leak and third-party intrusion detection, pig tracking and ground movement. Other offerings, including edge-processing answer products for injection monitoring, well intervention and stimulation, will follow later in 2022.
About Schlumberger
Schlumberger is a technology company that partners with customers to access energy. Their people, representing over 160 nationalities, are providing leading digital solutions, and deploying innovative technologies to enable performance and sustainability for the global energy industry. With expertise in more than 120 countries, Schlumberger collaborates to create technology that unlocks access to energy for the benefit of all.
About Sintela
Sintela is a technology development organization that designs and delivers world leading fiber sensing systems for industrial markets including Energy, Power, Rail, Road, Security, Telecoms and Urban Monitoring. Sintela has partnered with market leaders in each industrial sector who each have access to a common IP and product development capability. This capability includes 60 patent families and over 210 engineers and scientists dedicated to the development of fiber sensing solutions globally. Sintela enabled solutions are expected to exceed 100,000km of asset monitoring in 2023.
