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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2019
Applicant:

Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Christopher Michael Jones, Katy, TX (US);

Darren George Gascooke, Houston, TX (US);

Anthony Herman Van Zuilekom, Houston, TX (US);

Marcelo Civarolo, The Woodlands, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 49/10 (2006.01); G01N 33/24 (2006.01); E21B 33/124 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 49/10 (2013.01); E21B 33/124 (2013.01); G01N 33/241 (2013.01);
Abstract

A focused sampling method comprising: allocating fluid flow from a guard zone through a guard line and from a sample zone through a sample line, the guard zone being positioned at least partially concentrically about the sample zone and the guard zone, and the sample zone being in fluid communication with a formation; pumping, via a common line, a combined fluid flow from the formation through to a discard line for a pre-sampling time period, the combined flow comprising the fluid flow allocated from the guard zone into the guard line and the fluid flow allocated from the sample zone into the sample line; subsequent the pre-sampling time period, discontinuing flow from the guard line into the common line, such that the combined flow comprises only the fluid flow from the sample line; and introducing the combined flow comprising the fluid flow from the sample line into a sample chamber.


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