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We've had exceptional reports recently on lasers, fiber optics, and imaging in the oil and gas industry. Whatever your interest in this field—from technical to political—the facts are that photonics plays critical roles from fracking and extraction, to processing and environmental monitoring.
1.Mark Zondlo at Princeton's MIRTHE provides a brilliant overview of environmental concerns regarding methane, data from his research, and insights on the different lasers used for monitoring methane released during extraction and processing.
Fracking, climate change, and lasers: new tools to reduce fugitive methane emissions
2. Downhole sensing with optical fiber has become de rigor in the oil and gas industry for monitoring conditions and pumping status.
Downhole sensing puts fiber optics to the test
3. Fiber optics that sense optimal fracking sounds could improve fracking operations.
Sound-sensing fiber optics improve fracking
4. One company, Foro Energy, has been testing a 20-kW fiber laser system that will actually drill for oil.
Fiber lasers drill for oil
5. And Rebellion Photonics uses a hyperspectral imaging camera to detect leaking around oil rigs and refineries.
System spies spectral signatures
BONUS NEWS: Rebellion Photonics has been named the Wall Street Journal's Startup of the Year.
