Geoelectrical characterization of an oil-contaminated site in Tabasco, Mexico

Geofisica Internacional

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 251-263

  Shevnin, Vladimir ^a   Delgado Rodríguez, Omar ^a   Fernández Linares, Luis ^a   Zegarra Martínez, Héctor ^a   Mousatov, Aleksandr ^a   Ryjov, Albert ^b  

^a INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETRÓLEO   (Mexico)

^b RUSSIAN STATE GEOLOGICAL PROSPECTING UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

2D resistivity imaging; Oil contamination; Petrophysical modelling; Vertical electrical sounding

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATED LAND; OIL FIELD; VERTICAL ELECTRICAL SOUNDING;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; TABASCO; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 25844437204     PISSN: 00167169     EISSN: 2954436X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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