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Jan142019

The next wave of GIS in Petroleum

A few years ago, we published a free e-book entitled “Why Use GIS in Petroleum?”. With many thousands of downloads, it has become our most successful publication. People across the industry clearly value the concise overview of the Top 10 use cases for GIS in Oil and Gas. As time is moving on, our venerable publication may be due for an update. While we consider how to revise it, this blog post shares some thoughts and trends we’re seeing in the industry – and we are keen to hear your views as well (see below, it…

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14th January 2019

Oct222018

Importing Geology and Geophysics Data into ArcGIS Pro

22nd October 2018

Sep202018

Getech South Caribbean Regional Report Makes Esri Map Book

Getech, providers of natural resources exploration data and expertise, have released a new Regional Report Online. The Report uses a Story Map to summarise an assessment of the potential effects of the end-member plate models on the hydrocarbon prospectivity of the Southern Caribbean margin, and has been included in this year’s Esri Map Book. The featured part of the…

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20th September 2018

Jul22018

Esri 2018 UC Q&A Highlights

The 2018 Esri User Conference (UC) gets underway in San Diego next week, and Esri has released its annual UC Q&A. The Q&A sets the scene for the UC, provides information about Esri’s strategy and answers common questions about Esri’s products & services. The new Q&A is interactive and searchable, but to save you a…

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2nd July 2018

Jan302018

ArcGIS Pro – Attribute Based Transparency

One of the features introduced in ArcGIS Pro is the ability to set a layer’s transparency based on an attribute value. As a quick example to demonstrate this, I am using some OGA oil production data for fields in the North Sea. This is what the field data looks like to start with.…

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30th January 2018

Jan162018

ArcGIS Pro – Improved Apply Symbology with Geoprocessing

Sometimes when data is moved from one type of storage to another, changes are unavoidably enforced on the data schema. For example, if you move a feature class from a File Geodatabase into an Enterprise Geodatabase running on PostgreSQL. This will cause field names to become lower case. Figure 1: Data Schema in File…

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16th January 2018

Dec72017

Creating attachments using ArcGIS Pro

Attachments functionality has been available from ArcGIS Desktop 10.3 and is included in ArcGIS Pro. Geodatabase attachments are a more powerful way of associating non-geographic data with geographic data than traditional hyperlinking because you can associate multiple files with a feature, store the attached files in a geodatabase and access the files in more ways.…

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7th December 2017

Nov232017

Cloud, Pro and Mobile: Notes from EPUG 2017

The annual European Petroleum GIS Conference was held on 1-2 November in London, UK, organised by Esri and the European chapter of the Petroleum User Group (PUG). Against a backdrop of cautious industry optimism – the oil price had just broken though $60 for the first time in 2 years – there was strong turnout…

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23rd November 2017

Nov132017

Creating points from coordinate locations in ArcGIS Pro

A recent Exprodat blog looked at geodetic integrity within ArcGIS Pro. This blog follows-up on that great information by providing you a quick tip for importing coordinates into ArcGIS Pro. In ArcMap it was possible to use the Display XY Data tool to generate a temporary point event layer showing the locations of your coordinates.…

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13th November 2017

Oct252017

First Steps in Workflow Migration to ArcGIS Pro

You’ve been lucky enough to get a shiny, new install of ArcGIS Pro. After spending some time getting used to the new user interface, it’s time to start looking at the various processes you undertake on a regular basis in ArcMap. What are the impacts of migrating your workflow to ArcGIS Pro? I’m sure…

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25th October 2017