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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 1988
Filed:
Jul. 02, 1986
Harold J Vinegar, Houston, TX (US);
Pierre N Tutunjian, Houston, TX (US);
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method for measuring fluid saturations during multiphase flow in porous media by NMR imaging of preselected nuclides in preselected fluids. For two-phase imaging, one of the fluids to be imaged may contain protons and the other fluid may contain fluorine. For three phase imaging, the third fluid contains neither protons nor fluorine. The radiofrequency transmitters and receivers may be alternated between proton and fluorine Larmor frequencies on sequential or interleaved imaging cycles. Proton and fluorine calibration standards may also be imaged with the sample and the nuclide signal intensities from the sample normalized to the respective proton and fluorine calibration standards. The saturation of two and three-phases may then be determined throughout the porous media. The porosity of a porous media may also be determined from the images of a calibration standard of a first fluid and the media saturated to one hundred percent with the first fluid.
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