Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methodologies and apparatus for the recognition of production tests stability
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Application No.: US14830694Application Date: 2015-08-19
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Publication No.: US10309816B2Publication Date: 2019-06-04
- Inventor: Florian Hollaender , Stephan den Bleker
- Applicant: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Applicant Address: US TX Sugar Land
- Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Sugar Land
- Agent Cameron R. Sneddon
- Main IPC: G01F1/36
- IPC: G01F1/36 ; G01F1/74 ; G01F1/44 ; G01F15/06

Abstract:
A method for analyzing flow of a fluid through a flowmeter is provided. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving multiphase flowmeter data representative of a characteristic of a multiphase fluid flowing through a multiphase flowmeter and segmenting the multiphase flowmeter data into time blocks. The data in the time blocks can be analyzed using time-domain analysis or frequency-domain analysis to determine flow stability. The time-domain analysis can include analyzing time blocks in a time domain to determine whether measurement distribution in the multiphase flowmeter data of the analyzed time blocks represents stable flow of the multiphase fluid. The frequency-domain analysis can include converting the multiphase flowmeter data of the time blocks from a time domain to a frequency domain and identifying time blocks in which contribution of low-frequency components in the frequency domain is below a contribution threshold. Additional systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160054162A1 Methodologies and Apparatus for The Recognition of Production Tests Stability Public/Granted day:2016-02-25
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