Omega LDACS: Safer Detection with the distributed acoustic sensor

The OMEGA Company develops and produces multifunctional monitoring systems for extended facilities which indicate in on-line mode oil and other liquids, gas and multiphase leaks as far as third party activity in the protected zone using a fibre optic cable (FOC) as a sensing element. The Leak Detection and Activity Control System (LDACS) provides precise detection of location and nature of vibrations, spatial displacements and change of temperature characteristics on and around extended facilities such as pipelines, oil wells, railways, highways and power lines. Having equipped more than 5028 km of pipelines with the Leak Detection and Activity Control System (LDACS) recently, the Company is in permanent search of ways of improvement of the FOC monitoring technologies, which have been developed worldwide for nearly 40 years but still are considered to have significant deficiencies.