Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for relieving strain of an optical fiber installed in a conduit downhole, wherein the conduit is purged with a purge gas to relieve mechanical strain of the fiber.

Abstract: A system and method for calibrating a distributed temperature sensing (DTS) system having a fiber optic receiver coupled to an optical fiber, includes fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) integrally formed within the optical fiber, and a processor configured to compute a temperature datum for a location of each FBG based on signals generated by the fiber optic receiver in response to light reflections from the FBG; and adjusting a computed temperature data profile along the optical fiber segment, based on the computed temperature datum for each location of an FBG.