Tracing buried pipelines using multi frequency electromagnetic

In this paper the application of multi frequency electromagnetic techniques to locate buried pipelines is described. The survey site has two pipelines of SUMED, one of the world chokepoints. At desert or arid areas, regular geophysical surveys usually are difficult to carry out. EM techniques could be the best among geophysical techniques to be used for this target at these conditions. The EM survey was performed using a GEM-300 multi-frequency electromagnetic profiler. It is of handheld electromagnetic induction-type that measures in-phase and quadrature terrain conductivity without electrodes or direct soil contact. An area of 60 × 15 m was surveyed, that supposed SUMED pipeline existed. Six different frequencies, typically 2025, 2875, 4125, 5875, 8425, 12,025 Hz, have been used simultaneously. The slice maps for in-phase and conductivity distribution at each frequency could help to trace the extension of the pipeline. Two pipelines were traced successfully with 20 m spacing of each others.