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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2016
Baker Hughes Incorporated, Houston, TX (US);
Anthony A. DiGiovanni, Houston, TX (US);
Danny E. Scott, Montgomery, TX (US);
Daniel T. Georgi, Houston, TX (US);
David A. Curry, Princes Risborough, GB;
Rashid W. Khokhar, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Rocco DiFoggio, Houston, TX (US);
Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A cutting element for an earth-boring drilling tool comprises a cutting body having a cutting surface thereon, and a sensor coupled with the cutting surface, the sensor configured to determine resistivity of a contacting formation. An earth-boring drilling tool comprises a bit body and an instrumented cutting element coupled with the bit body. The cutting element includes a cutting body having a cutting surface thereon, and at least one sensor located proximate the cutting surface. The at least one sensor is oriented and configured to determine resistivity of a contacting formation. A method of determining resistivity of a subterranean formation during a drilling operation comprises energizing a sensor of an instrumented cutting element of a drill bit, sensing a return signal flowing on or through the subterranean formation through the instrumented cutting element, and determining a resistivity of the subterranean formation based, at least in part, on the return signal.