ExprodatExprodat
Exprodat
ArcGIS Platform, Petroleum People
  • ArcGIS Platform
    • Geospatial Strategy
    • Solution Design
    • Jump Start Packages
    • Bespoke Development
    • Spatial Data Management
    • ArcGIS Pro Services
    • ArcGIS Training
  • Featured
    • Exploration
      • Data Assistant
      • Exploration Analyst
      • Exploration Analyst Online
      • Unconventionals Analyst
      • ArcGIS Training
    • Operations
      • ArcGIS Pipeline Referencing Implementation
      • Common Operating Picture
    • Downloads
      • Why Use GIS in Petroleum?
      • Report on the State of GIS in the E&P Industry (2015)
    • Offers
      • Data Assistant Trial
      • Oil & Gas GIS Benchmark
  • Blog
  • News
  • About
  • Contact
Menu back  
 
FacebookTwitterLinkedinYouTube

Benchmarking GIS Performance

Benchmarking GIS Performance: A Multi-client Example In this blog, which follows a previous posting where I described a GIS Strategy Review Approach for the petroleum industry I’m going to look at a real world example of measuring GIS effectiveness: Exprodat’s multi-client GIS benchmarking project from 2012. If you’d like to jump straight into the detailed results please download the detailed 2012…

Read details
11th March 2013

Measuring GIS Effectiveness

Measuring GIS Effectiveness: Exprodat’s GIS Maturity Matrix Approach How do you measure how well your company has implemented GIS? How do you benchmark your GIS both internally and externally against your peers?  How do you develop a strategy for developing your GIS, and measure how effective it has been? Exprodat developed the GIS Maturity Matrix to…

Read details
4th March 2013

Plotting Dip and Strike Readings

Dips and strikes? Dip and strike readings are simple but important geological measurements which can be used for structural and stratigraphic analysis. They are generally made by a field geologist directly at a geological outcrop. The dip of the geological layer is defined as the maximum inclination, in degrees, of the layer from the horizontal…

Read details
25th February 2013

Tip 23: Loading Grids to ArcGIS

As geoscientists, we need to bring into ArcGIS various types of gridded data, including surfaces with elevation values, sub-surface horizons with depth values, or imagery with spectral values. If you don’t have access to a dedicated ArcGIS extension for loading such data types, like our own Data Assistant, then the way to load these into ArcGIS…

Read details
19th February 2013

Creating Map Books with ArcGIS

Increase mapping productivity using Data Driven Pages If you want to create a PDF map book or a map series covering a study area, you can do so with minimum fuss by using Data Driven Pages (DDP). The only thing you need to accomplish this is a polygon layer with a column which contains unique…

Read details
28th January 2013

Stop Making Basic Positioning Mistakes!

Make a geodetic New Year’s resolution: stop making basic positioning mistakes! This New Year, why not resolve to stop making basic geodetic positioning mistakes in your ArcGIS documents. We’re sure your boss, customers and organisation will thank you. To help you with this, Exprodat and Priemere GeoTechnology have collaborated to create a free tool, called the Geodetic…

Read details
11th January 2013

Tip 22: Using Raster Catalogs

Using a Raster Catalog in ArcCatalog You can use a Raster Catalog to store high volumes of imagery. You can create them from the File menu in ArcCatalog, or from the Create Raster Catalog tool in ArcToolbox. When set up and populated, with some image tiles selected, it will look something like the image below: Using the…

Read details
3rd January 2013

Using OGP’s EPSG Area Polygons

The International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (OGP) recently released EPSG Area Polygons as a freely available spatial dataset that accurately defines the applicable extent of the CRSs and transformations in the EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset (EPSG Dataset). However, use of the Area Polygons dataset is not as straightforward as it could be, as…

Read details
15th October 2012

Using Tool Parameters in ArcGIS

Tool parameters are used to set values for elements within a script, allowing you to pick from a drop-down list or navigate to a location without having to edit any script code. Embellishing from my previous blog on listing files in a folder using Python, this blog shows you how to create a script that…

Read details
4th September 2012

Tracking Company Assets in Real Time

This year two teams from Exprodat decided to enter the Oxfam Trailwalker 2012 event. We thought it would be fun to develop a map-based application to track the positions of our teams and devised a system whereby the walkers would carry smartphones containing built-in GPS receivers for gathering position information. This information would then be…

Read details
13th August 2012
1
2345
…678910…
11121314
15
prevnext
Where To Find Us

Exprodat Consulting Ltd
Holborn Tower
137-144 High Holborn
London
WC1V 6PL

Contact Us

Recent News
  • Exprodat Streamlines Reservoir Characterization at Illinois State Geological Survey
    28th January 2019
  • Exprodat attending Esri European Petroleum GIS Conference
    24th October 2018
  • Exprodat Upgrades Exploration Software to ArcGIS Pro
    16th October 2018
Recent Blogs
  • Exprodat Interviewed about ArcGIS Pro Development by Esri E360
    12th February 2019
  • The next wave of GIS in Petroleum
    14th January 2019
  • Importing Geology and Geophysics Data into ArcGIS Pro
    22nd October 2018
Recent Tweets
  • Exprodat interviewed by @esriuk #E360 video channel about its development work with #ArcGIS #Pro #petroleum… https://t.co/xPZdfdBcDQ8 days ago
  • RT @GETECHplc: We have updated our #License #Rounds page so click the link & get up-to-date with the latest news from around the world: htt…13 days ago
Copyright © 2016. Exprodat Consulting Ltd. All rights reserved.
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy Policy
Boilerplate