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Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013

Filed:

Mar. 24, 2010
Applicants:

Jonathan Mitchell, Cambridge, GB;

Edmund J. Fordham, Kedington, GB;

Inventors:

Jonathan Mitchell, Cambridge, GB;

Edmund J. Fordham, Kedington, GB;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/18 (2006.01); G01V 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A laboratory NMR methodology (and corresponding laboratory apparatus) defines a sample volume. The method stores downhole tool data corresponding to a hydrocarbon-bearing sample collected from a given subsurface formation. The downhole tool data includes parameters pertaining to magnetic fields used by a downhole tool during a suite of NMR measurements of the given subsurface formation. The sample is positioned in the sample volume of the laboratory apparatus, which applies a static magnetic field in the sample volume. Furthermore, the laboratory apparatus applies a suite of NMR measurements to the sample volume to thereby determine a property of the sample. The NMR measurements of the suite each include a pulse sequence of oscillating magnetic field in conjunction with a pulsed-mode gradient field. The pulsed-mode gradient field is based on the stored downhole tool data corresponding to the sample. A laboratory NMR methodology for optimizing downhole NMR measurements is also described.


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