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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2005
Michael Shammai, Houston, TX (US);
Francisco Galvan Sanchez, Houston, TX (US);
Harry Wade Bullock, Montgomery, TX (US);
Michael Shammai, Houston, TX (US);
Francisco Galvan Sanchez, Houston, TX (US);
Harry Wade Bullock, Montgomery, TX (US);
Baker Hughes Incorporated, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus store energy in an energy storage medium located in an energy storage chamber. As a sampling tool descends into the borehole, the energy storage medium is pressurized with hydrostatic pressure. A sample is collected in a sample chamber by pumping formation fluid into the sample chamber against hydrostatic pressure. The energy storage medium applies the energy stored in the energy storage medium to the sample through a pressure communication member. A pressure multiplier member increases the pressure applied on the sample by the energy storage medium through the pressure communication member to keep pressure on the sample. A biasing water pressure is applied to the sample at the surface so that the energy storage chamber can be removed from the sample chamber.