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A majority of oil and gas companies will agree that data management, on a massive scale, is the toughest aspect of their industry. At the end of the day, data, rather structured or unstructured, is still just data. This raw data means nothing unless it is converted into intelligible data and data on this scale must be converted through an advanced data management system. GIS was designed with this task in mind.
In the petroleum industry there are a myriad of ways that GIS is priceless some of them are Data index maps which is one of the most common usages of GIS in the petroleum sector is in conveying easy-to-use digital maps that permit the oil company staff to see what data is available to them, so that they can radically diminish…show more content…
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