Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Determining fluid properties
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Application No.: US17007399Application Date: 2020-08-31
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Publication No.: US11428557B2Publication Date: 2022-08-30
- Inventor: Keelan Thomas O'Neill , Michael Leslie Johns , Einar Orn Fridjonsson , Paul Louis Stanwix , Jana M. Al-Jindan , Mohamed Nabil Noui-Mehidi
- Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Applicant Address: SA Dhahran
- Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Current Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Current Assignee Address: SA Dhahran
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: G01F1/716
- IPC: G01F1/716

Abstract:
Techniques for measuring liquid properties include circulating a mixed oil-water liquid flow through a fluid flow circuit; polarizing the mixed oil-water liquid flow with a pre-polarizing magnet to an initial polarization; circulating the polarized mixed oil-water liquid flow to an EFNMR detector that includes a radio-frequency (RF) coil and a surrounding electromagnet; further polarizing the polarized mixed oil-water liquid flow with the surrounding electromagnet; measuring fluid induction decay (FID) values of the additionally polarized mixed oil-water liquid flow with the EFNMR detector; transforming the measured FID values to an effective adiabatic transition from the Earth's field to the polarizing field; determining a velocity of the oil in the mixed oil-water liquid flow and a velocity of the water in the mixed oil-water liquid flow based on differences in NMR signal relaxation properties of the transformed FID values; and determining an oil content and a water content of the mixed oil-water liquid flow from the transformed FID values.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220065672A1 DETERMINING FLUID PROPERTIES Public/Granted day:2022-03-03
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