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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
May. 27, 2009
Gary Oddie, St. Neots, GB;
Gary Oddie, St. Neots, GB;
Schlumberger Technology Coporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Abstract
A method and system is provided for measuring a flow rate of a gas/liquid flow. The method and system for measuring the flow rate include flowing a swirling gas/liquid flow separated into a gas core and a liquid outer layer through a conduit containing a constriction having a reduced conduit cross-section, measuring the differential gas core static pressure between a position upstream of the constriction and a position at the constriction, measuring a further quantity which provides the flow rate of the gas, the flow rate of the liquid, or a correlation between the flow rate of the gas and the flow rate of the liquid, and determining the flow rates of the gas and the liquid from the differential gas core static pressure and said measured further quantity.