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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2008
Yuqiang Niu, Beijing, CN;
Robert North, Beijing, CN;
Chen Lin, Stavanger, NO;
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a method and apparatus for determining oil based mud contamination of a hydrocarbon fluid obtained from a wellbore during a formation testing. The invention includes receiving a model for simulating the contamination and receiving an empirical equation for computing the contamination. At a given pumping time, a simulated contamination is generated based on the model and an empirically computed contamination is generated based on the first empirical equation. The simulated contamination and empirically computed contamination are compared and a determination as to which is more reliable is made. Revision of the first model or first empirical equation based is then performed.