Geotrace releases new version of geographical integration system

HOUSTON – Geotrace, a leading reservoir services company that provides subsurface imaging solutions to the oil and gas industry worldwide, has released GeoBrowse 3.2, the latest version of its geographical integration system (GIS). The updated version has extended functionality and compatibility with commonly used technologies, such as Google Earth, Virtual Earth, Petrel, Petrosys and Kingdom Suite.

Designed for the hydrocarbon exploration and production industry, GeoBrowse uses a rich geographical display to let users capture, manage and analyze multiple forms of geographically referenced information. Building on the earlier version’s ability to compile information from Tigress, Finder, OpenWorks Oracle, and other data stores, GeoBrowse 3.2 adds access to, Petrosys and SMT’s Kingdom Suite data.

"The industry's need for robust data management and data access within a secure environment has continued to increase, resulting in a dramatic growth of GIS systems," said David Sullivan Managing Director of Geotrace Data Integration Services. "Geotrace has run this new release extensively at client sites and we've received great feedback on the program's ability work with a wide variety of data types and databases."

Users can now build map montages, as well as generate reports and comparative assessments by making live queries across these disparate data sources. From the desktop, GeoBrowse gives the user a map-driven access point to see what data is available where across the enterprise without