PREFACE / TABLE OF CONTENTS / ABOUT THE
EDITORS
J. M. Yarus and T. C. Coburn
Appendix A: Annotated Glossary of Acronyms Used by
Authors
Appendix B: Vendors and Products Cited by
Authors
Chapter 1: Geographic Information Systems in
Petroleum
Exploration and Development: An Introductory
Essay
J. M. Yarus and T. C. Coburn
Chapter 2: Geographic Information Systems
(GIS) Technology:
A Brief History, Trends, and Probable
Future
Joseph K. Berry
Chapter 3: An Overview of GIS in the
Geosciences
Graeme Bonham-Carter
Chapter 4: Geoscientific Modeling: Past,
Present, and Future
A. Keith Turner
Chapter 5: GIS Technology--A Vendor
Perspective of its History
and Prospects in Petroleum
Exploration and Production
Geoff Wade
Chapter 6: A Conversation with Petroleum
Information
Timothy C. Coburn, Jeffrey M. Yarus, and
Phillip H. Stark
Chapter 7: On the Implementation of GIS for
Petroleum
Exploration and Development: Issues and
Perspectives
Timothy C. Coburn
Chapter 8: Building a Regional Study in
GIS
Carl R. Mazzo and William A. Burroughs
Chapter 9: GIS-Based Analysis of Fluid
Migration in
Sedimentary Basins
Gernot
Paulus
Chapter 10: The Gap Mountain Prospect: A New
Approach
to Conceptual Geological Modeling
David
R. Jefferis, Michael S. Connelly, and Skip Pack
Chapter 11: Evaluating International
Acquisitions Using a
Spatial Database System--A Low-Cost
Approach
Al Haertlein and Dave Rich
Chapter 12: Use of Geographic Information
Systems in
Hydrocarbon Resource Assessment and
Opportunity Analysis
Kenneth C. Hood, Bernard C.
South, F. Dennis Walton,
Otha D. Baldwin, and William A.
Burroughs
Chapter 13: Conducting a Field Study with GIS:
Port Hudson
Field, Tuscaloosa Trend, East Baton Rouge
Parish, Louisiana
Kirk A. Barrell
Chapter 14: Waterflood Optimization Using GIS
Techniques
in Citronelle Field, Mobile County, Alabama,
U.S.A.
L. Eugene Safley and Michael L.
Fowler
Chapter 15: Reservoir Characterization of a
Stratigraphically and Structurally Complex Gulf of Suez Oil
Field Using Three-Dimensional Modeling and GIS
Techniques
Ron A. Day, Khaled Talaat, and Karen S.
Hoffman
Chapter 16: Integrated Geo-Systems--A
Computational Environment for Integrated Management,
Analysis, and Presentation of Petroleum Industry
Data
Khalid Amin Khan
Chapter 17: Using the World Wide Web to Manage
Exploration and Production Team Data
Charles
Fried
Chapter 18: GIS: The Exploration and
Exploitation Tool
Kirk A. Barrell
Chapter 19: The USGS GeoExplorer Project:
Using New GIS Technology for Scientific Data
Publishing
Charles E. Barnwell
Chapter 20: GIS--Public Domain and Inexpensive
Software
Betty Gibbs
Chapter 21: Bibliographic Resources for GIS in
Petroleum Exploration and Development
Paul J. Yarka
and Timothy C. Coburn
Chapter 22: GIS and Geostatistics: A Marriage
of Technologies
Timothy C. Coburn and Jeffrey M.
Yarus
