Integrated visualization environments will be the key to better E&P workflow efficiency

For more than 15 years, the E&P industry has been striving, not altogether successfully, to improve business decisions throug progressive integration of information, processes and technical domains. Based upon their experience Landmark Graphics specialists Hank Chambers, systems development director, integrated interpretation, and Dave Williams, systems development director, geophysical technologies, provide this frank assessment of the current state of integration in the upstream oil and gas industry and of what needs still needs to be done, viewing favourable recent advances in integrated visualization environments as the way ahead for improving E&P workflow efficiency.