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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2000
Clark E. Robison, Tomball, TX (US);
Charles R. Williams, Carrollton, TX (US);
Neal G. Skinner, Lewisville, TX (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A downhole apparatus ( ) for determining the constituent composition of a produced fluid is disclosed. The apparatus ( ) includes a vessel ( ) having an interior chamber ( ) that receives and contains a sample of the produced fluid. In the interior chamber ( ), the sample of the produced fluid is allowed to separate into its constituents. A gauge ( ) having an array of transmitter elements (E -E ) and an array of corresponding receiver elements (R -R ) disposed oppositely of one another on the vessel ( ), is used to transmit and receive energy waves that propagate through the sample of the produced fluid. The receiver elements (R -R ) detect changes in absorption or scattering of the energy waves transmitted from the corresponding transmitter element (E -E ) caused by the constituent of the sample of the produced fluid through which that energy wave propagated. Based upon these changes in the energy waves, the level of an interface between the constituents is identified such that the constituent composition of the produced fluid may be determined.