Geographic Information
Systems in Petroleum Exploration and Development
Edited by Timothy C.
Coburn and Jeffrey M. Yarus
CONTENTS
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Chapter 1
Geographic Information
Systems in Petroleum Exploration and Development: An Introductory Essay
J. M. Yarus and
T. C. Coburn
Technological Foundations
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Chapter 2
Geographic Information
Systems (GIS) Technology: A Brief History, Trends, and Probable Future
J. K. Berry
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Chapter 3
An Overview of GIS
in the Geosciences
G. Bonham-Carter
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Chapter 4
Geoscientific Modeling:
Past, Present, and Future
A. K. Turner
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Chapter 5
GIS Technology--A
Vendor Perspective of its History and Prospects in Petroleum Exploration
and Production
G. Wade
Practical Realities
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Chapter 6
A Conversation with
Petroleum Exploration
T. C. Coburn,
J. M. Yarus, and P. H. Stark
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Chapter 7
On the Implementation
of GIS for Petroleum Exploration and Development: Issues and Perspectives
T. C. Coburn
Case Studies
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Chapter 8
Building a Regional
Study in GIS
C. R. Mazzo and
W. A. Burroughs
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Chapter 9
GIS-Based Analysis
of Fluid Migration in Sedimentary Basins
G. Paulus
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Chapter 10
The Gap Mountain
Prospect: A New Approach to Conceptual Geological Modeling
D. R. Jefferis,
M. S. Connelly, and S. Pack
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Chapter 11
Evaluating International
Acquisitions Using a Spatial Database System--A Low-Cost Approach
A. Haertlein
and D. Rich
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Chapter 12
Use of Geographic
Information Systems in Hydrocarbon Resource Assessment and Opportunity
Analysis
K. C. Hood, B.
C. South, F. D. Walton, O. D. Baldwin, and W. A.Burroughs
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Chapter 13
Conducting a Field
Study with GIS: Port Hudson Field, The Tuscaloosa Trend, East Baton Rouge
Parish, Louisiana
K. A. Barrell
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Chapter 14
Waterflood Optimization
Using GIS Techniques in Citronelle Field, Mobile County, Alabama, U.S.A.
L. E. Safley
and M. L. Fowler
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Chapter 15
Reservoir Characterization
of a Stratigraphically and Structurally Complex Gulf of Suez Oil Field
Using Three-Dimensional Modeling and GIS Techniques
R.A. Day, K.
Talaat, and K.S. Hoffman
Supporting Roles
and Applications
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Chapter 16
Integrated Geo-Systems--A
Computational Environment for Integrated Management, Analysis, and Presentation
of Petroleum Industry Data
K. A. Khan
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Chapter 17
Using the World
Wide Web to Manage Exploration and Production Team Data
by C. Fried
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Chapter 18
GIS--The Exploration
and Exploitation Tool
K. A. Barrell
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Chapter 19
The USGS GeoExplorer
Project: Using New GIS Technology for Scientific Data Publishing
C. E. Barnwell
GIS Resources
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Chapter 20
GIS--Public Domain
and Inexpensive Software
B. Gibbs
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Chapter 21
Bibliographic Resources
for GIS in Petroleum Exploration and Development
P. J. Yarka and
T. C. Coburn
Looking Ahead
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Chapter 22
GIS and Geostatistics--A
Marriage of Technologies
T. C. Coburn
and J. M. Yarus
Appendices
Index