“So,” said Santa, his grin widening, “we can get rid of the reindeer?”. He pushed back from his desk and turned to gaze through the glass wall that separated his office from the staff canteen. The reindeer sat together at one of the long tables that were arranged in rows in the canteen. They weren’t…
ESRI’s ArcGIS Explorer (AGX) is a free downloadable GIS viewer which allows viewing of a wide variety of spatial data in either 2D or 3D (Globe) display modes. In Exprodat’s R&D team we’ve been working with the AGX Software Development Kit (SDK) for a few months and have been impressed with what you can do,…
London, United Kingdom, 1st December 2009 – Exprodat today announces the release of its KBridge software for converting data between Seismic Micro-Technology’s KINGDOM® and ArcGIS® Desktop from ESRI®. KBridge allows users to transfer their KINGDOM well, seismic and interpretation data to ArcMap™, and vice versa. KBridge is designed to provide a low cost alternative to…
One of the main issues that users seem to need a bit of help with in ArcGIS Desktop is the whole Joins and Relates ‘thing’. I guess this comes up a lot in the petroleum sector as users are often trying to Join pick data to wells, or Relate production data to fields, etc. As…
One of the problems I faced when starting to use GIS was that there was so much to learn, and so many ways to get stuck! Often finding the best places to get answers to problems was something of a rights of passage. Things have changed since then of course – a lot of oil companies these…
London, United Kingdom, 28th October 2009 – Exprodat today announces the release of the Exploration Analyst toolkit for building common risk segment maps for use in exploration play fairway analysis. With Exploration Analyst petroleum E&P companies can now improve their understanding of play risk, reduce technical uncertainty and significantly reduce technical evaluation cycle times. Exploration Analyst…
ESRI’s ArcGIS Explorer (AGX) is a free GIS viewer which allows the user to view a wide variety of spatial data in both 2D and 3D (globe) display modes. We’ve been working with the latest version, 900, since it was in Beta, and have been impressed with its new Software Development Kit (SDK) and presentation…
London, United Kingdom, 22nd October 2009 – Exprodat today announces the release of version200 of Exploration Analyst, unique software for performing petroleum block ranking and company portfolio analysis. With Exploration Analyst petroleum E&P companies can dramatically shorten traditionally paper-based workflows in order make data driven decisions and improve exploration portfolio management. Exploration Analyst is a powerful…
London, United Kingdom, 15th Oct 2009 – Exprodat has today scheduled the final public offering of its 2 day ‘Applied ArcGIS Techniques for E&P’ training course for 2009. The course is scheduled to run between the 3rd and 4th of December 2009, in London, United Kingdom. The course introduces participants to ArcGIS functionality and the…
It’s become clear to me through a number of engagements with E&P companies that ownership of GIS is falling between the cracks. GIS as a distinct ‘practice’ in the E&P business is a relatively recent development, certainly for many small to mid-size companies. What started out as a niche application championed by a few ‘techies’…
