US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Feb. 24 for "Downhole segregation for wireline formation fluid sampling" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,083, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Downhole segregation for wireline formation fluid sampling" was invented by German Garcia (Sugar Land, Texas), Hadrien Dumont (Paris) and Vinay Kumar Mishra (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides for a method for sampling fluid from a subterranean formation that is intersected by a wellbore. The method includes performing an initial draw-down at a target interval in the wellbore to pump fluid from the subterranean formation with a 3D radial probe. The method includes isolating the target interval of the wellbore wi...