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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2000
Mark A. Proett, Missouri City, TX (US);
Michael T. Pelletier, Houston, TX (US);
Wei Han, Missouri City, TX (US);
Bruce H. Storm, Jr., Houston, TX (US);
Roger L. Schultz, Aubrey, TX (US);
Thomas E. Ritter, Katy, TX (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A downhole tool and method for determining the viscosity of a reservoir fluid, the tool including a passage having entry, intermediate and exit regions, in which the reservoir fluid flowing through the passage will have a lower Reynolds number in the intermediate region as compared to the entry region, the tool also including differential pressure gauge for measuring the differential pressure across the intermediate region, and either a velocity controller or fluid velocity meter, for either setting or measuring the fluid velocity.