Pipeline breach location detection systems and methods

Techniques for implementing and/or operating a system that includes an inner pipe segment disposed within an outer bore and a testing apparatus. The inner pipe segment includes tubing that defines a pipe bore through the inner pipe segment and a fluid conduit within a tubing annulus of the inner pip...

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1. Verfasser: Francis, Kirk Spencer
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Techniques for implementing and/or operating a system that includes an inner pipe segment disposed within an outer bore and a testing apparatus. The inner pipe segment includes tubing that defines a pipe bore through the inner pipe segment and a fluid conduit within a tubing annulus of the inner pipe segment. The testing apparatus includes a test fluid source fluidly connected to the fluid conduit defined within the inner pipe segment, in which the test fluid source injects test fluid into the tubing annulus of the inner pipe segment, and sensors disposed along the outer bore, in which the sensors determine sensor data indicative of a downstream parameter that results due to injection of the test fluid into the tubing annulus of the inner pipe segment to enable a potential location of a breach in the tubing of the inner pipe segment to be determined based on the downstream parameter.