Flexible pipe body, a flexible pipe and a method of manufacturing pipe body are disclosed. The flexible pipe body comprises a tensile armour layer and a supporting layer radially outside, or radially inside, and in an abutting relationship with the tensile armour layer. The supporting layer comprises a helically wound constraining tape element and a helically wound electrically conductive tape element.

An aperiodically overlapping spiral-wrapped cable shield system includes a cable having cable components such as a pair of conductors, at least one insulator surrounding the pair of conductors, and at least one drain wire. The cable also includes a cable shield that is spirally wrapped around the cable components with a varying wrap pitch that provides a plurality of overlapping cable shield portions with varying overlap areas. When signals are transmitted using the cable components in the cable, the varying overlap areas of the plurality of overlapping cable shield portions create a plurality of varying LC circuits that are configured to generate a resonance that does not exceed a signal integrity resonance threshold for a signals.

Provided are a core electric wire for multi-core cable that is superior in flex resistance at low temperature, and a multi-core cable employing the same. A core electric wire for multi-core cable according to an aspect of the present invention comprises a conductor obtained by twisting element wires, and an insulating layer that covers an outer periphery of the conductor, in which, in a transverse cross section of the conductor, a percentage of an area occupied by void regions among the element wires is from 5% to 20%. An average area of the conductor in the transverse cross section is preferably from 1.0 mm.sup.2 to 3.0 mm.sup.2. An average diameter of the element wires in the conductor is preferably from 40 μm to 100 μm, and the number of the element wires is preferably from 196 to 2,450. The conductor is preferably obtained by twisting stranded element wires obtained by twisting subsets of element wires. The insulating layer preferably comprises as a principal component a copolymer of ethylene and an α-olefin having a carbonyl group.

A wire harness includes an electrical wire, a sheet material welded to an insulating covering of the electrical wire disposed on a main surface, and a cover fixed to the sheet material. The cover covers at least part of the electrical wire disposed on the sheet material along a longitudinal direction of the electrical wire from an opposite side of the electrical wire from the sheet material.

Tubing encapsulated cable consists of one or more electrical conductors and possibly one or more fiber optic cables sheathed in a corrosion resistant metallic alloy. However, pumping during the installation of tubing encapsulated cable is required to overcome the capstan effect of the tubing encapsulate cable inside the coil tubing as the tubing encapsulated cable travels through the coiled up wraps of coil tubing. In an embodiment of the invention the tubing encapsulated cable consists of one or more electrical conductors and possibly one or more fiber optic cables sheathed in a fiber reinforced composite sheath. Because there is little drag between the fiber encapsulated cable and the coil tubing, conventional pumping operations used to install braided wireline into coil tubing may not be required when installing fiber encapsulated cable into coil tubing. Additionally, the smooth outside surface and relatively small diameter of the fiber encapsulated cable are desirable attributes for well intervention work because the smooth surface is more resistant to chemical attack than braided wire while the smooth surface and relatively small diameter provide little viscous drag while fluids are pumped through the coil tubing in the course of intervention operations.

A communication system, comprises a composite slickline including an electrical conductor surrounded by an electrically insulating structural material, a downhole tool; and a sensing element. The composite slickline is mechanically and electrically coupled to the downhole tool and extends from the downhole tool to the sensing element. The composite slickline and the sensing element are capacitively coupled so as to permit relative movement therebetween and so as to permit an electric field to extend from the electrical conductor of the composite slickline to the sensing element through the electrically insulating structural material of the composite slickline for the transmission of an electrical and/or an electromagnetic signal between the downhole tool and the sensing element via the composite slickline.

Disclosed are cable types, including a type THHN cable, the cable types having a reduced surface coefficient of friction, and the method of manufacture thereof, in which the central conductor core and insulating layer are surrounded by a material containing nylon or thermosetting resin. A silicone based pulling lubricant for said cable, or alternatively, erucamide or stearyl erucamide for small cable gauge wire, is incorporated, by alternate methods, with the resin material from which the outer sheath is extruded, and is effective to reduce the required pulling force between the formed cable and a conduit during installation.

Provided is an insulated electrical cable including: a core wire made up of at least one insulated wire including a conductor and an insulating layer covering the conductor; an inner sheath layer covering the core wire; and an outer sheath layer covering the inner sheath layer. The inner sheath layer has an elastic modulus A at −30° C. in a range from 10 MPa to 1000 MPa.

There is provided a method of producing a long body covered with a covering layer, in which the long body includes at least plural electric wires and/or tubes, the covering layer includes at least a specific intermediate layer and a specific outermost layer, the method including at least: covering the long body with the covering layer; and fixing positions of the plural electric wires and/or tubes.

Disclosed is a shielded communication cable containing a parallel electric cable containing a pair of insulated wires arranged parallel to each other without being twisted. The shielded communication cable exhibits excellent noise shieldability and hardly generates signal propagation time difference. The shielded communication cable contains a parallel electric cable containing a pair of insulated wires arranged parallel to each other. Each of the insulated wires contains a conductor and an insulation coating that covers the conductor. A braided shield containing elemental wires braided together and a film-shaped shield containing a metal film are arranged at an outer circumference of the parallel electric cable.