Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Brigitte I. Jefferey
  • Patent number: 6765380
    Abstract: A method for determining downhole reservoir wettability includes acquiring a first set of NMR measurements of formation fluids in earth formations at a selected axial depth; inverting the first set of the NMR measurements to produce a first distribution of a spin relaxation parameter for a fluid component in the formation fluids; acquiring a second set of NMR measurements of a formation fluid sample removed by a formation fluid testing tool at the selected axial depth, the formation fluid sample being kept at a substantially same pressure and temperature as those of the formation fluids in the earth formations at the selected axial depth; inverting the second set of NMR measurements to produce a second distribution of the spin relaxation parameter for the fluid component in the formation fluid sample; determining the reservoir wettability from a comparison of the first and second distributions of the spin relaxation parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Freedman, Martin D. Hurlimann