MUMBAI, India, June 24 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617058755 A) filed by Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC on May 08, 2026, for In-Line Nmr Sensor For Analyzing Drill Cuttings After Treatment.
Inventors include Krishnan, Aswath; Osgouei, Reza Ettehadi; and Thompson, Jr. , Charles A..
The application for the patent was published on June 12, 2026, under issue no. 24/2026.
Abstract: An apparatus for processing cuttings from drilling a borehole in a geologic formation includes: a cuttings processing system having a cuttings processing device to remove oil from the cuttings that includes an adjustable operational parameter and an actuator or a device controller for adjusting the adjustable operational parameter; an in-line nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) instrument comprising a conduit coupled to an output of the cuttings processing system or the processing device and containing the discharged cuttings and providing an NMR output signal related to an amount of oil measured by the in-line NMR instrument; and a controller coupled to the in-line NMR instrument, the controller having a controller output coupled to the processing device and providing a control signal to adjust the adjustable operational parameter in accordance with an algorithm that uses the NMR output signal as input to reduce the amount of oil retained by the cuttings.
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