17.2 The Business Case

Since 2009, DAS applications for oil and gas have seen rapid development by both service companies and operators. Several commercial applications for surveillance based on DAS measurements have been developed and are being offered on the market today, including a large range of wellbore applications such as noise monitoring, hydraulic fracturing and perforation monitoring, flow profiling for several well types, and vertical seismic profiling. Furthermore, several pipeline monitoring applications were under development when this document was being written.