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US 2017/0363560 A1Published application
Method for Non-Linear High Salinity Water Cut Measurements
AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorsMichael John Black, Mohamed Nabil Noui-Mehidi
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a method for determining a water cut value of a composition comprising a hydrocarbon. In some embodiments, the disclosure relates to an apparatus for determining the water cut value of the composition that comprises one or more of a capacitance probe, a temperature probe, a salinity probe, and a computer.
Claims8
An apparatus for determining a water cut value of a hydrocarbon composition, the apparatus comprising:
- a capacitance probe in fluid contact with the hydrocarbon composition and that is operable to induce a frequency value into the hydrocarbon composition, to detect a mixture permittivity value associated with the induced frequency value and to form an associated signal for the detected mixture permittivity value;
- a temperature probe in fluid contact with the hydrocarbon composition and that is operable to detect the temperature value of the composition and form an associated signal for the detected temperature value;
- a salinity probe in fluid contact with the hydrocarbon composition and that is operable to detect the salinity value of the composition and form an associated signal for the detected salinity value;
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- a computer;
- wherein the apparatus is capable of determining the water cut value for the hydrocarbon composition.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.