Fine characterization and quantitative analysis of leakage pollution plumes in oil storage areas of gas stations based on three-dimensional cross well resistivity tomography technology

XianHang BI, XiuJun GUO, JiTong SUN, EnYu GUO

Prog Geophy ›› 2025, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (1) : 398-408.

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Prog Geophy ›› 2025, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (1) : 398-408. DOI: 10.6038/pg2025HH0532

Fine characterization and quantitative analysis of leakage pollution plumes in oil storage areas of gas stations based on three-dimensional cross well resistivity tomography technology

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The soil and groundwater pollution caused by gas station leakage is one of the main types of urban underground pollution. The soil and groundwater pollution caused by gas station leaks is one of the main types of urban underground pollution. In order to achieve this goal, we design a new acquisition method of three-dimensional inter-well resistivity tomography in this paper, evaluate and analyze the ability of this technique to finely characterize and quantitatively evaluate the pollution plume through application examples. The study shows that the monitoring technology designed in this paper has good ability to portray the pollution plume formed by small leakage from gas stations, the boundary of the pollution plume formed by secondary repeated leakage, and the diffusion process of the pollution plume caused by the change of the groundwater level; and the inverted three-dimensional spatial resistivity data of the pollution plume and the oil content-resistivity model can be used to estimate the three-dimensional spatial oil content of the plume and the total leakage volume. Based on the time series inversion of the three-dimensional resistivity data, a leakage level criterion is constructed based on the concept of grading. The research paper plays an important role in promoting the three-dimensional fine characterization technology of underground organic matter pollution plumes.

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Three-dimensional cross well resistivity tomography imaging method / Gas station leakage / Pollution plume / Fine characterization

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XianHang BI , XiuJun GUO , JiTong SUN , et al. Fine characterization and quantitative analysis of leakage pollution plumes in oil storage areas of gas stations based on three-dimensional cross well resistivity tomography technology[J]. Progress in Geophysics. 2025, 40(1): 398-408 https://doi.org/10.6038/pg2025HH0532

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