Spatial information is the key to any petroleum venture form initial exploration through acquisition and production. Exploration requires the analysis of a lot of different types of data such as surface geology studies, subsurface and cross section interpretations, seismic surveys, well locations, satellite imagery, topography and infrastructure information. However, due to the global nature of petroleum industry, the increasingly large amount of data to handle and the complexity of processes involved in discovering new sources of petroleum it becomes more and more difficult to manage these data.

During the past years there have been major improvements to integrate spatial information inside a database management system. Furthermore, the capabilities of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in terms of connectivity and interoperability with common E&P specific applications have increased significantly. A GIS provides a spatial framework to the data and allows overlying, analyzing and visualizing the data in a fast and efficient way. It is the final mapping application for many sections of the petroleum business.

Multidisciplinary asset teams consisting of disciplines such as geophysics, geology, petroleum engineering or facilities engineering clearly benefit from shared databases, especially for map data showing locations of key features. GIS technology improves the E&P workflow and is ideal to be integrated with other business risk or economic business planning engines in order to support the right business decisions.

The workshop will include both presentations of GIS users from petroleum companies and some specific E&P related software vendors. The aim of our workshop will be knowledge sharing including talks and open discussions.

This workshop is sponsored by IHS

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