Oil and gas explorers routinely estimate the probability of success (PoS) of exploration
projects, which is used for the calculation of risked prospective resources, their expected …

We present a new, fully probabilistic and nonlinear inversion method to estimate the spatial
distribution of geological properties (depositional facies, diagenetic rock types, or other rock …

The goal of an investigation, scientific or otherwise, is usually to find answers to some
specific set of questions about the state of nature: what is the seismic velocity structure? How …

For sustainable management of marine geological resources, a geological knowledge base
is being built for the Belgian and southern Netherlands part of the North Sea. Voxel models …

The aim of this chapter is to analyze the mechanisms and the philosophical background
behind collaborative e-research in the perspective of defining simple and useful models that …

Petroleum explorers regularly make numerous forecasts for prospects and wells, but the
quality of their predictions has inadequate documentation. Here I discuss the forecasting …

Expert knowledge is required to interpret data across a range of fields. Experts bridge gaps
that often exists in our knowledge about relationships between data and the parameters of …

Modern geoscience relies on interpreting and extrapolating often limited data from analogue
scenarios to produce a model for a specific case. Groups of experts in various fields are …