Hybrid Cable
Product description
Hybrid cables combine electrical and optical components and are custom-designed to meet a customer’s specific requirements. There are two main design methods:
- Two separate TEC (electrical) and TEF (optical) tubes side by side in a flat pack
- A single tube containing a conductor twisted with a fiber in a metal tube (FIMT)
*The product image shown above is a single outer-tube hybrid cable design
Application
The primary application is well management. A hybrid cable combines modern distributed fiber optic sensing well management technologies (DTS and DAS) with traditional downhole electrical tools such as pressure sensors.
Standards & Approvals
Advanced Well Equipment Standard Group RP-3362 “AWES Recommended Practice for Qualification of Tubing Encased Fiber (TEF Cable Appendix A: TEC/TEF Cables”
Features
- Operating Temperature range: -10°C to 150°C
- Multiple Fibers
- Range of Sizes
- Gel-filled Options
- Application Specific
- Extruded Filler
- Optional Bumper Bars
- Custom Line Marking
- Safety-Strip® Encapsulation
Design & Construction
- Outer Tube Materials
- 316L Stainless Steel (UNS 31603)
- A825 Alloy (UNS N08825)
- Outer Tube Sizes: 1/4" to 3/8"
- FIMT (Fiber In Metal Tube)
- Material: 316L Stainless Steel
- Size: 0.052" to 0.165"
- Fiber Quantity: Multiple
- Type: SMF and MMF
- Coatings: Temp-specific
- Gel: Temp-specific
- Belt (Optional): PP / FEP / PFA
- Encapsulation (Optional): PP (Polypropolene) / TPR (Santoprene) / PA (Nylon) / PVDF / ETFE (Tefzel) / ECTFE (Halar) / FEP / PFA / ECA 3000
- Round or Square profile
- Flatpack Bumper Bars (Optional): 5/16" / 7/16" / 1/4" / 3/8" / Galvanized
- Pressure Rating
- 1/4" up to 25Kpsi
- 3/8" up to 20Kpsi