Measuring and testing – Borehole or drilling – Formation logging
Patent
1995-04-17
1996-10-01
Chilcot, Richard
Measuring and testing
Borehole or drilling
Formation logging
73 6144, 7386104, 7315218, 324324, E21B 4700
Patent
active
055612458
ABSTRACT:
The invention is a method of determining the flow regime of fluid having more than one phase flowing in a conduit. The method includes the step of positioning a sensor in the conduit, the sensor generating measurements capable of discriminating more than one phase in the fluids, generating measurements from the sensor for a period of time, characterizing the measurements with respect to changes in magnitude of the measurements occurring during the period of time, and comparing the characterized measurements to similarly characterized measurements of a similar sensor positioned within flow streams having known flow regimes.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the characterization of the measurements includes performing a variability analysis of the measurements.
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Georgi Daniel T.
Song Shanhong
Zhang Jian C.
Amrozowicz Paul D.
Chilcot Richard
Fagin Richard A.
Western Atlas International Inc.
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