| CPC E21B 49/08 (2013.01) | 18 Claims |
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14. A method comprising:
sampling a formation through a wellbore during a testing pump out of the formation to gather multi-phase formation fluid in a continuous flow;
continuously separating, with one or more affinity-based separators, one or more phases of the multi-phase formation fluid through either or both diffusion or flow while downhole in the wellbore during the testing pump out;
wherein the one or more affinity-based separators comprise a plurality of affinity-based separators that each form a stage of a plurality of stages of the phase separator in continuously separating a phase of the multi-phase formation fluid; and
wherein the plurality of stages comprise a first stage and a second stage that operate in parallel to continuously separate the one or more phases of the multi-phase formation fluid by receiving different input flows from the continuous flow of the multi-phase formation fluid.
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