Patent 7210856 was granted and assigned to WellDynamics on May, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A deep water subsea tree completion having a distributed temperature sensing system. In a described embodiment, a method of installing an optical fiber in a well includes the steps of: conveying an optical fiber section into the well; and monitoring a light transmission quality of the optical fiber section while the section is being conveyed into the well.