Monitoring and control of the processes required to produce hydrocarbons constitutes an ongoing industry concern, which is partly because of the expenses and risks associated with the execution of those processes, as well as environmental and safety factors. The ability to provide wireless monitoring of wellbore parameters also has increased completion reliability and decreased completion costs. In an effort to address these issues, Tubel Technologies was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory to develop a new real-time downhole wireless pressure and temperature gauge for the optimization of natural gas production. This system utilizes the production tubing as the medium for the transmission of the information from downhole to the surface.