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Exploration & Production: The Oil & Gas Review - 2003, Volume 2
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The Potential
Integration begins when users can easily find the data required to meet their day-to-day business needs:
- more accessible data generates more usage and frees up users to find the data where they need it;
- users amalgamate information from their own discipline and others, and leverage their enterprise data assets; and
- vendors create applications that leverage more data sets and scale across their clients’ databases.
GIS scales best across disciplines when corporate assets are truly at hand. Enterprise applications thus gel from the ground up, starting with a collection of data repositories at a global scale (see Figure 3).
Figure 3: Data Integration
Shows Infrastructure in Global Contexts
GIS then helps link and interpret disparate data keyed by location. Morphing geodata into information creates the competitive edge for each business. ESRI uses so-called geoprocessing to vastly expand the access of geographic and corporate data. It allows to leverage everything that users, vendors and data managers have assembled and maintained: processes can be distributed across server farms; imagery and computer-aided design can be read directly; complex geostatistics can be set up by experts then routinely launched by end-users; complex routing and pathway analysis can be scripted via command-line on the server; and results picked up asynchronously at the desktop or by non- GIS systems.
The corporate knowledge base is thus maintained, codified and transmitted – in other words, rationalised across the enterprise. Enterprise happens when all limitations are lifted from data access, processing and dissemination. Information then becomes knowledge and blending geographic and tabular data helps GIS become part of the larger information technology infrastructure. Isn’t the quickest way to achieve a significant return on investment to leverage knowledge across the entire corporation?
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Geosciences
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Andrew Zolnai is Petroleum/Pipeline
Industry Solutions Manager at ESRI
in Redlands, California. He joined
ESRI in 2000 and is responsible for
industry marketing in petroleum
and pipeline. From 1994 to 2000
He worked at Landmark
Halliburton, where he was
responsible for support, training
and project management in
petroleum applications and
geographic information systems
(GIS) worldwide. Prior to this Mr
Zolnai was involved in various joint
ventures and consulting, mapping
and GIS in petroleum between
1986 and 1994. From 1982 to
1986, he worked for Shell Canada
and the Geological Survey of
Canada, in exploration and as a
field geologist. He has been a
professional geologist with The
Association of Professional
Engineers, Geologists and
Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA)
since 1984 and an active practicing
geologist with the American
Association of Petroleum Geologists
(AAPG) since 1979. Mr Zolnai
received his MSc from Queen's
University, Kingston, Canada, in
1982 and BSc from the University
of Calgary, Canada, in 1980 and
has since undertaken continuing
education in computing, GIS and
project management.
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