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An introduction to this special section

GIS in Exploration

dmikkelsen@houston.geoquest.slb.com or dean.c.mikkelsen@usa.conoco.com

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Oil and gas explorationists are positioned at an exciting time regarding their ability to acquire, interpret, and show relationships about the physical environment and how they impact the quest for the black gold. Many factors come into play in this quest, and many parties are involved at every stage, from initial permitting to actual drilling of the well. Oil and gas explorationists frequently have to deal with many government organizations and prepare environmental impact studies prior to "normal" exploration logistics and planning. Often more than one partner is involved in the operations. This means information is being shared between many groups of people with one common goal. Geographic Information Systems (GIS), used by municipalities and planners for quite a long time, are now being adopted as another tool in exploration becaused they can efficiently store different types of information which, in turn, leads to better interpretation/understanding of the data—satellite imagery, land ownership, location of seismic lines and wells, etc. As with all new tools though (especially in software), the "black-box" approach is . . . [Full Text of this Article]