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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2007
Applicant:
Ian Atkinson, Ely, GB;
Inventor:
Ian Atkinson, Ely, GB;
Assignee:
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/20 (2006.01); G01N 1/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
This disclosure relates in general to robust and efficient methods and systems for obtaining a sample of a liquid or gas phase from a multiphase mixture flowing in a pipeline, where the multiphase mixture comprises oil and/or a gaseous hydrocarbon and the pipeline is configured for the transport of the oil and/or gaseous hydrocarbon. In certain aspects of the present invention, after obtaining the sample of the liquid or gas phase of the multiphase mixture, sensing devices, meters, sensor systems or the like may be used to analyze the properties of the collected liquid phase sample.