This paper presents a general approach to the assessment of telluric activity. Telluric currents
observed in a pipeline are the result of three simultaneously operating factors: (1) variations of the
Earth’s natural geomagnetic field, (2) conductivity of the underlying Earth and (3) pipeline
electromagnetic properties and pipeline structure. The first two factors were combined to give an
estimation of the telluric electric field that produces variations of the pipe-to-soil potentials in a pipeline.
This geoelectric field then can be combined with a particular pipeline equivalent circuit model which
gives the pipeline response to the telluric activity in an area.