Here is a state-of-the-art survey of artificial intelligence in modern exploration programs. Focussing on standard exploration procedures, the contributions examine the advantages and pitfalls of using these new techniques, and, in the process, provide new, more accurate and consistent methods for solving old problems. They show how expert systems can provide the integration of information that is essential in the petroleum industry when solving the complicated questions facing the modern petroleum geoscientist.

In this survey of artificial intelligence in modern exploration programs, which focuses on standard exploration, the contributors examine the advantages and pitfalls of using the new techniques, and in doing so aim to offer more accurate and consistent methods for solving old problems. They show how expert systems can provide the integration of information that is necessary in the petroleum industry when solving the complex questions facing the modern petroleum geoscientist.