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Ramirez et al. 1993
Ramirez, A., Daily, W., LaBrecque, D., Owen, E. and Chestnut, D. (1993). Monitoring an underground steam injection process using electrical resistance tomography. Water Resources Research 29: doi: 10.1029/92WR01608. issn: 0043-1397.

We used electrical resistance tomography (ERT) to map the subsurface distribution of a steam flood as a function of time as part of a prototype environmental restoration process performed by the Dynamic Underground Stripping Project. We evaluated the capability of ERT to monitor changes in the soil resistivity during the steam injection process using a dipole-dipole measurement technique to measure the bulk electrical resistivity distribution in the soil mass. The injected steam caused changes in the soil's resistivity because the steam displaced some of the native pore water, increased the pore water and soil temperatures and changed the ionic content of the pore water. We could detect the effects of steam invasion by mapping changes in the soil resistivity as a function os space and time. The ERT tomographs are compared with induction well logs, formation temperature logs, and lithologic logs. These comparisons suggest that the ERT tomographs mapped the formation regions invaded by the steam flood. The data also suggest that steam invasion was limited in vertical extent to a gravel horizon at depth of approximately 43 m. The tomographs show that with time, the steam invasion zone extended laterally to all areas monitored by the ERT technique. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1993

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Exploration Geophysics, Magnetic and electrical methods, Exploration Geophysics, Downhole methods, Mineral Physics, Electrical properties
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