Consulting Blogs

Managing Cultural Data with ModelBuilder and Python

07/11/2011
Cultural data which E&P organisations rely on for exploration and commercial deve...

Enhancing Imagery using ArcGIS

25/10/2011
One of the many questions that I get asked when delivering a GIS training course is &...

Environmental and Seabed Constraints Analysis in ArcGIS

26/07/2011
GIS for environmental data management and analysis in E&P At Exprodat we recentl...

Correctly Aligning Features in ArcMap: 3

22/07/2011
In my previous posts (part 1 and part 2), I described how ArcMap warns users that a c...

Correctly Aligning Features in ArcMap: 2

20/07/2011
In my last post (part 1), I described two scenarios when ArcMap undertakes coordinate...

Correctly Aligning Features in ArcMap: 1

18/07/2011
As mentioned in a previous blog, ArcMap can correctly align layers of geographic data...

Using the ArcGIS Correlation Coefficient

08/06/2011
Investigating the Correlation Between Formation Pressure and Depth using ArcGIS ...

Automating your workflows with Python

08/12/2010
In today’s E&P industry the maxim “time is money” could never b...

Checking Residuals Bias in Geological Mapping

26/10/2010
In my last blog post I discussed the case for mapping the residuals in order to help ...

Promoting GIS in your Workplace

19/10/2010
Are you working in an organisation that you feel could really benefit from GIS, but d...

Complex Symbols and Cartographic Representations

03/09/2010
I want to create a complex custom symbol for use with area fills on a map. In ArcMap ...

Measuring the Quality of Predictions: 3

14/07/2010
Assessing the Quality of the Modelling of Continuous Variables in the 2D Domain &ndas...

Measuring the Quality of Predictions: 2

12/07/2010
Assessing the Quality of the Modelling of Continuous Variables in the 2D Domain &ndas...

Measuring the Quality of Predictions: 1

07/07/2010
Assessing the Quality of the Modelling of Continuous Variables in the 2D Domain &ndas...

Crowdsourcing and ArcGIS Server 10

06/05/2010
With the imminent arrival of ArcGIS Server 10 and its template-based online spatial&n...

Shale Gas Well Reserve Mapping with GIS

11/03/2010
Unconventional Gas The interest in unconventional gas exploration has significantly ...

Landfill Sites vs. Acreage: Worlds Apart?

20/01/2010
As if running a GIS business wasn't hard enough work, I recently signed up for a...

Adding Cross Sections to ArcGIS Explorer

03/12/2009
ESRI’s ArcGIS Explorer (AGX) is a free downloadable GIS viewer which allows vie...

Enormous 3D Arrows in the Sky!

26/10/2009
ESRI’s ArcGIS Explorer (AGX) is a free GIS viewer which allows the user to view...

Who Owns Your GIS?

15/10/2009
It’s become clear to me through a number of engagements with E&P companies ...

Zen and the Art of Web Mapping

30/09/2009
When I first started working with web-based GIS, oooh, back in 2001 or so, it seemed ...

Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis 1

23/09/2009
Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) is a group of techniques used to describe an...