Patent ID: 8205679

Claim:
A method of deploying instrumentation gauges in a wellbore, comprising: providing a plurality of gauge mandrels with gauges; preassembling each gauge mandrel of the plurality of gauge mandrels with a corresponding packer during offline assembly time; determining the number of preassembled gauge mandrel and packer assemblies to be installed downhole in the wellbore; determining a distance between the top of a packer and the bottom of the gauge mandrel which will be disposed sequentially uphole of the packer; cutting a length of instrumentation cable to a length of about the determined distance; splicing a first end of the length of instrumentation cable to a gauge to form a complete splice during offline assembly time; preparing a second end of the length of instrumentation cable for connection to a next sequential gauge; and conveying the gauge mandrels and the corresponding packers downhole into the wellbore.