Optimal Antenna Configurations for Digital Oilfield Implementations
No Thumbnail Available
Date
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland
Abstract
Description
Antennas play a very pivotal role in the development and advancement of digital oil
fields. They provide the last mile communication link to the field locations and thus must be
properly sized to ensure the link availability and reliability. There are different types of antennas
currently being deployed with each having different impacts on the communication link
performance. This paper discusses typical antenna configurations for implementing last mile
communications to the field in digital oilfield applications. It analyzes the characteristic of each
configuration, the impact these different configurations have on data security, deployment speed and
communication range and presents an optimal configuration that improves data security,
deployment speed and communication range.
Keywords
TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering