Supply of DTS and DAS Interrogator Boxes for BGS GeoEnergy Test Bed
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · Awarded contract
AwardedSupply of DTS and DAS Interrogator Boxes for BGS GeoEnergy Test Bed
Awarded 04 Sep 2017
Awarded04 Sep 2017
Value£138,000.00
SupplierSilixa Ltd
RegionUnited Kingdom
CategoryResearch & Development
Ended 7y 7mo ago1y 7mo term
Awarded 4 Sept 2017Expired 31 Mar 2019
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UK Shared Business Services Limited awarded a contract to Silixa Ltd for the supply of Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) and Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) interrogator boxes to support optic fibre surveys at the British Geological Survey's GeoEnergy Test Bed near Nottingham.
The portable interrogator boxes will be installed in a monitoring hut and used with multimode fibre installed in six wells, enabling daisy-chain monitoring across approximately 1,425 m of downhole fibre and 490 m of surface fibre.
The contract value is AUD 138,000.
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