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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2013
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
John E. Edwards, Muscat, OM;
Adrian Rodriguez Herrera, Bracknell, GB;
Morten Kristensen, Auning, DK;
Tobias Judd, Lafayette, CO (US);
Andrew E. Pomerantz, Lexington, MA (US);
Oliver Clinton Mullins, Houston, TX (US);
SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Abstract
A downhole tool is conveyed within a borehole extending into a subterranean formation. A void is created in a sidewall of the borehole by extending a rotating member from the downhole tool into the sidewall. A portion of the sidewall surrounding the void is mechanically compressed, and the viscosity of hydrocarbons in the subterranean formation proximate the void is reduced by injecting a fluid from the downhole tool into the formation via the void. Fluid comprising the reduced viscosity hydrocarbons and the injected fluid may then be drawn from the subterranean formation into the downhole tool.