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Petroleum Resources Development Division April 2010

Magnetic surveying uses the Earth's magnetic field to detect anomalies underground. It has advantages of using a natural source and being non-invasive and cheaper than gravity surveys. Disadvantages include being affected by magnetic storms, diurnal changes, and surrounding infrastructure. It can be used on land, offshore, and in the air to locate buried tanks, faults, minerals, ordnance, and utilities. In petroleum exploration, it is useful for reconnaissance but must be correlated with other geophysical data.

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Petroleum Resources Development Division April 2010

Magnetic surveying uses the Earth's magnetic field to detect anomalies underground. It has advantages of using a natural source and being non-invasive and cheaper than gravity surveys. Disadvantages include being affected by magnetic storms, diurnal changes, and surrounding infrastructure. It can be used on land, offshore, and in the air to locate buried tanks, faults, minerals, ordnance, and utilities. In petroleum exploration, it is useful for reconnaissance but must be correlated with other geophysical data.

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Petroleum Resources Development Division

April 2010
 Uses the earth’s magnetic field to be able to
delineate anomalies among bodies
 Earth’s magnetic field = main magnetic field
+ external magnetic field + induced magnetic
field
 The magnetic susceptibility of objects leads
to detecting anomalies
 Uses units such as nT and cgs.
 Usesmagnetization induced in upper crust by
Main Field (and External Field) or remanent
magnetization ("permanently induced") in
ferromagnetic minerals (i.e. magnetite,
hematite, etc.) and materials (i.e. metals)
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
1) Affected by magnetic
1) Uses natural source storms
2) Non-invasive 2) Values vary timely
3) Cheaper than gravity 3) Values vary over
locations (N latitude,
(costs 1/10 of g) equator, S latitude, etc.)
4) Easy to carry-out 4) Depends on inclination
of Earth's field, and
orientation of dipole
with respect to magnetic
field
5) Affected by surrounding
infrastructures
 Can be done onshore, offshore and airborne
with a magnetometer
 For land acquisition, a base station is
assigned and this station must be re-occupied
every two hours to account for diurnal
changes in the magnetic field
 For aeromag and marine survey, navigation of
lines to be acquired is important
 Diurnal Correction – to account for
differences in the magnetic field thru-out
the day
 Elevation correction – not normally done;
variations in main field only about 1 nT per
100'
 Location correction – value of field varies
depending on latitude
 Main magnetic field correction – main
magnetic field varies yearly; uses IGRF
(International Geomagnetic Reference Field)
w/c is updated every 5 yrs
 locating buried tanks and drums
 fault studies
 mineral exploration
 mapping unexploded ordinance (UXO)
 mapping buried utilities, pipelines
 buried foundations, fire pits for archeological
studies
 PETROLEUM EXPLORATION
 Usually for reconnaissance survey only
 Not a direct indicator of HCs but utilizes the
fact that HCs are mostly found in
sedimentary rocks and not in
igneous/metamorphic rocks
 Correlation with other geophysical data is a
must

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