1018 results about "Core sample" patented technology

A device and method of use for securing and coring of tumors within the body during a biopsy of the tumor, specifically breast tumors. An adhesion probe for securing the tumor is described. The probe secures the tumor by piercing the tumor and providing a coolant to the distal tip to cool the tip. The cooled tip adheres to the tumor. A coring instrument adapted for cutting a core sample of the tumor is described. The instrument is provided with a cannula that can cut a core sample of the tumor. The instrument is adapted for use with the probe with the probe fitting within the cannula. The instrument can be used in conjunction with the probe to secure and core a sample of the tumor for biopsy.

A device and method of use for securing and coring of tumors within the body during a biopsy of the tumor, specifically breast tumors. An adhesion probe for securing the tumor is described. The probe secures the tumor by piercing the tumor and providing a coolant to the distal tip to cool the tip. The cooled tip adheres to the tumor. A coring instrument adapted for cutting a core sample of the tumor is described. The instrument is provided with a cannula that can cut a core sample of the tumor. The instrument is adapted for use with the probe with the probe fitting within the cannula. The instrument can be used in conjunction with the probe to secure and core a sample of the tumor for biopsy.

A method of producing liquid hydrocarbons from a hydrocarbon-bearing rock in situ in a geological formation begins with exploring the formation by drilling a plurality of boreholes into the formation and taking core samples of the hydrocarbon-bearing rock and at least one overburden layer. Electrical parameters of the hydrocarbon-bearing rock and the overburden layer are determined, as well as a roughness of a boundary between the hydrocarbon-bearing rock and the at least one overburden layer. These electrical parameters are used to construct a computer model of a portion of the hydrocarbon-bearing rock and at least one overburden layer, the computer model based upon modeling the formation as a rough-walled waveguide. This computer model is used to simulate propagation of radio frequency energy within the hydrocarbon-bearing rock, including simulation of radio frequency wave confinement within the hydrocarbon-bearing rock, at several frequencies and temperatures. A frequency for retorting is selected based upon simulation results. Radio frequency couplers are installed into at least one borehole in the hydrocarbon-bearing rock and driven with radio frequency energy to heat the hydrocarbon-bearing rock. As the rock heats, it releases carbon compounds and these are collected.

The invention discloses a method for calculating oil saturation of a reservoir. The method comprises the following steps of: establishing a reservoir oil saturation model including a free fluid porosity phi f, a bound fluid porosity phi b, as well as corresponding macropore bond index mf, micropore bond index mb and micropore bond index characteristic value parameters; measuring a core porosity phi of a selected core sample; carrying out a nuclear magnetic resonance T2 spectrum experiment and an electric petrophysical experiment on the selected core sample to determine the core porosity phi and bound water saturation Swir of the selected core sample, the free fluid porosity phi f and bound fluid porosity phi b, stratum water resistivity Rw of a saturated rock sample, saturated water rock resistivity Ro of each rock sample, and resistivity Rt of each rock under different conditions of water saturation Sw; determining parameters of a reservoir oil saturation model by adopting an optimization data fitting method; establishing a relationship between the core micropore bond index mb and the bound water saturation Swir; classifying reservoir cores according to the bound water saturation; and determining a saturation index n of each type of cores by using the optimization fitting algorithm.

A soil sampling implement and method have a sampler assembly supported from an implement frame for movement across a field. The sampler assembly includes a tapered cylindrical cutting shoe and a soil collection trough. The cutting shoe has a leading cutting edge arranged for movement through soil in a horizontal direction to cut a cylindrical core sample. A sensing device is provided for measuring at least one soil property. The sampler assembly is moved between a lowered position in which the cutting shoe is positioned at a selected sampling depth, and a raised position in which the cutting shoe is positioned above the soil surface and a soil sample contained in the soil collection trough is brought into contact with the sensing device. A cutting shoe scraper engages and cleans the leading cutting edge of the cutting shoe when the sampler assembly is moved between the lowered and raised positions.

A pressure and temperature core sampler comprises a tool for recovering cores specifically enabling the evaluation of methane hydrate resources. Because methane hydrate tends to decompose under conditions of pressure decrease and/or temperature increase as the samples are retrieved to the surfaces a coring tool in accordance with the present invention provides a self-contained system for retrieving core samples at or near in situ pressure while cooling the core sample. The coring tool is preferably a wire line retrievable device that provides for nearly continuous coring during the drilling operation.

The present disclosure is related to an apparatus for taking a sample in a wellbore during drilling operations. The apparatus may include a drill bit configured to form a core and at least one retractable cutter internal to the drill bit for taking the sample from the core. The apparatus may also include equipment for analyzing the sample, extracting fluid from the sample, testing fluid from the sample, encapsulating the sample, and/or tagging the sample. The present disclosure is also related to a method for taking a core sample without interrupting drilling operations. The method includes taking a core sample using a drill bit configured to take a core sample using internal cutters. The method may also include analyzing the sample, extracting fluid from the sample, analyzing fluid from the sample, encapsulating the sample, and/or tagging the sample.

The invention relates to a method for visually monitoring a fracture crack, which comprises the steps of: with a room-temperature cured type fluid material as a fraction fluid, injecting the fluid material into a wellbore hole simulator of a core sample, filling the fluid material into the crack and fully filling into the crack when the core sample is fractured to generate the crack; and after the fluid material is cured to form a simulated crack, taking the simulated crack out and observing the form of the simulated crack. The prepared concrete core sample is subjected to a fracture test in an experiment room by selecting silicon oil and fluid silicon gel as the fracture fluid, and after the fracture fluid is filled into the fracture crack and cured, the silicon gel simulated crack is taken out, and the expansion form of the crack can be represented by observing the form of the simulated crack, therefore, the method for visually monitoring the fracture crack achieves the purpose of visualization.

Apparatuses and methods suitable for (i) measuring lithological or petro-physical properties of reservoir core sample including shale rock; (ii) evaluating the degree of formation damage caused by foreign fluid into formation; (iii) conducting dynamic experiments, such as water flooding, chemical solution flooding, and supercritical CO₂ injection to displacing oil tests; (iv) simulating physical radial flow experiments using reservoir core sample(s) at conditions of temperature up to 150° C. and pressure up to 6000 psi, are provided involving radial flow through the core sample(s) having at least partially hollow centers in an axial direction, up to annular axial cross-sections.

A wireline-conveyed side-wall core coring tool for acquiring side-wall core from a geological formation for performing in-situ side-wall core analysis. The coring tool has a core analysis unit operable to measure geophysical properties of an acquired side-wall core. The measured geophysical properties may be used to determine the success of the acquisition of side-wall cores by the coring tool. The core analysis unit is operable of performing an in-situ interpretation of measured geophysical property of the side-wall core and transmitting in near real-time the measurements or the interpretation results to surface data acquisition and processing apparatus.

The invention relates to a hole bottom freezing cord coring drill and a coring method thereof. In the invention, liquid nitrogen is taken as a refrigerant; the liquid nitrogen absorbs heat in the gasification process so as to freeze a core at a hole bottom and inhibit a natural gas hydrate from being decomposed. The drill comprises an outer tube assembly and an inner tube assembly; and in the process of acquiring the core, a sand hitch is utilized to drag the inner tube assembly out from the outer tube assembly, an end cover and a clamp spring are dismounted, a semi-closed tube and a core sample are pumped out together from a core tube, the two ends of the semi-closed tube are sealed by rubber plugs, and the core sample and the semi-closed tube are stored in a liquid nitrogen hold-up vessel or a high-pressure container together. The invention has the advantages that rapid freezing can be realized, and the freezing effect is good; since cord coring and hole bottom freezing are combined, rapid coring without lifting the drill is achieved; in the drilling process, the inner tube assembly does not rotate, thus damages on a hydras core caused by mechanical force generated by rotation of the drill is avoided to a greater degree, the percentage of coring, the core integrity degree and the representativeness are more effectively improved; and semi-closed tube type rapid ground surfacesampling is adopted, thus the core can be rapidly obtained from the ground surface.

A core sample holder assembly for performing laboratory core flooding experiments with a core sample:

• • a pressure chamber provided by a tubular hull made of a carbon fiber composite material and an aluminum liner, and a pair of disk-shaped flanges;
  • a flexible core sample holder sleeve within the pressure chamber, which sleeve comprises a tubular steel sheet with a plastic inner lining;
  • an opening for injecting oil into an annular space between the hull and the sleeve;
  • pressure control means for maintaining the oil at a predetermined pressure;
  • an fluid injection port for injecting a fluid into a cylindrical core sample within the sleeve;
  • a fluid outlet port arranged in the other flange for discharge of fluid from the core sample; and
  • means for monitoring the migration of injected and/or pore fluid through the pores of the core sample.

The present invention relates to a sampler for gas hydrates by hole bottom freezing, the sampler comprises a fisher, a wire-line coring mechanism and an outer barrel, and it further comprises a refrigeration portion, a low temperature control portion and a frozen insulation sample portion, which constitute an inner barrel assembly located inside the outer barrel together, wherein a refrigerant in the refrigeration portion is injected into the frozen insulation sample portion under a control of the low temperature control portion, so that a cooling medium in the frozen insulation sample portion is always kept under a predetermined temperature, and a core sample of gas hydrates is frozen at the bottom of a drill hole. The invention also relates to a sampling method using the sampler as mentioned above. In the invention, the temperature of the sample can be decreased by using an external cooling source to suppress hydrate decomposition, the critical decomposition pressure of gas hydrates can be reduced by active decreasing the temperature of the sample, and the stability of gas hydrates is maintained by a passive pressure drop. The method of the present invention need not to keep the pressure of the sample, and is simple to obtain a core sample of gas hydrates with higher fidelity.

An apparatus and method for NMR analysis of a plurality of core samples includes a core holder (11) that holds a core sample under pressurized conditions. A radio frequency coil (51) disposed about the core holder (11) generates a pulsed-mode magnetic field component over a sample volume occupied by the core sample. A support structure is removably secured to the respective core holder. A permanent magnet (65A, 65B) has an open configuration such that it is removably disposed into a position within the support structure about the radio frequency coil and the core holder. The open configuration allows the same permanent magnet to be used for NMR analysis of a plurality of core samples without the need for depressurizing the respective core holder and disassembling the core holder and corresponding load frame for each core sample. It also allows multiple core samples to be prepared for NMR analysis while separated from the NMR measurement apparatus.

Disclosed are an apparatus and a method of measuring porosity and permeability of a carbon dioxide underground storage medium. Both of the porosity and the permeability are measured in the state that the confining pressure is applied once. The variation characteristic in the porosity and the permeability of the core sample according to the salt precipitation occurring when supercritical carbon dioxide is injected is continuously measured. The apparatus includes a holder receiving a core sample, a pressure pump applying a confining pressure to the core sample, a gas chamber storing gas and supplying supply the stored gas to the core sample, first to third pressure gauges measuring an internal pressure of the gas chamber and front and rear portions of the holder, and a gas flow meter measuring a flow rate of gas.

The invention discloses a detection method and a device for effective fractured intervals in an unconventional shale oil and gas reservoir. The method includes: collecting logging information and core sample information of intervals of interest; calculating volume contents of all minerals in rock generating the intervals of interest according to the collecting logging information and the core sample information; calculating the poisson ratio of all mineral constituents in the rock generating the intervals of interest according to the core sample information and rock space volume average elastic parameter models; calculating the fragility index of the rock generating the intervals of interest according to the volume contents of all the minerals and the poisson ratio of all the mineral constituents in the rock generating the intervals of interest; and selecting the intervals of interest with the high rock fragility index in the shale as the effective fractured intervals in the unconventional shale oil and gas reservoir. By means of the detection method and the device for the effective fractured intervals in the unconventional shale oil and gas reservoir, the actual production requirement for selecting the effective fractured intervals in exploration and development of the unconventional shale oil and gas reservoir can be met.

Reamers for use in core-sample drilling having PDC inserts and methods for using the reamers with PDC inserts are described. A reamer with PDC inserts may be used to maintain borehole diameters, reduce deviation, and/or stabilize drill strings used in core sample drilling. The PDC inserts may be of different sizes and shapes and may be arranged around the reamer in various ways.

Subterranean hydrocarbon reservoirs are analyzed by characterizing the relative presence and character of microfractures in rock samples from the reservoirs. Core samples are saturated with a suspension of magnetite particles of known concentration. The samples are then subjected to an applied magnetic field of known strength. The anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, or AMS, of the samples is then observed, providing a measure of grain orientation in the samples. The characteristics of the microfractures in the samples are thus available to characterize the reservoirs, and in particular the contribution of the microfractures to the porosity and permeability of formations in the reservoirs.