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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2010
Filed:
May. 27, 2008
Applicant:
Joo Ong, Houston, TX (US);
Inventor:
Joo Ong, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Baker Hughes Incorporated, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F 1/74 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Multi-phase flow is estimated in a flow meter having a first and a second stage by empirically deriving an algorithm for the water and gas fractions, measuring pressures within the flow meter, and estimating a total mass flow rate based on the measured pressures. A corrected total mass flow rate is calculated using a liquid/gas slip correction technique. The oil fraction can be determined from the corrected total mass flow rate and gas and water fractions.