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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2006
John Barry Fitzgerald, Cambridge, GB;
John Barry Fitzgerald, Cambridge, GB;
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Ridgefield, CT (US);
Abstract
The disclosure concerns a method and a system for monitoring the composition of a cement slurry or wellbore service fluid, the method and system including one or more feeder units for solid particulate material; one or more mixing or blending units adapted to receive material from the feeder units; one or more outlet tubes to direct the cement slurry or wellbore service fluid to a storage facility or into a wellbore; and a control unit connected to at least one densitometer to monitor the density of the cement slurry or wellbore service fluid; wherein the densitometer comprises a generator free of radioactive material and capable of generating high-energy photons based on accelerating or decelerating electrons.