Patent Document ID: 7822554
Application ID: 12210461
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for characterizing a reservoir of interest comprising: (a) obtaining a first reservoir fluid sample at a first downhole measurement station within a borehole that traverses the reservoir of interest; (b) performing downhole fluid analysis, DFA, of the first reservoir fluid sample to obtain DFA measurement data characterizing the first reservoir fluid sample; (c) predicting compositional components and fluid properties with depth using the results of the downhole fluid analysis of (b); (d) obtaining a second reservoir fluid sample at a second downhole measurement station within the borehole; (e) performing downhole fluid analysis of the second reservoir fluid sample to obtain DFA measurement data related to the second reservoir fluid sample; (f) deriving predicted DFA measurement data for reservoir fluid at the second downhole measurement station based upon the compositional components and fluid properties with depth predicted in (c); (g) comparing the DFA measurement data of (e) and the predicted DFA measurement data of (f); and (h) generating output to the user that characterizes the reservoir of interest based upon the comparing of (g).