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Geological fieldwork can provide a competitive advantage. Fieldwork results can advance specific business recommendations on how to proceed with exploration or manage technical risk.

Geological fieldwork can provide a competitive advantage. Fieldwork results can advance specific business recommendations on how to proceed with exploration or manage technical risk.

For example, geological fieldwork was applied successfully to an exploration program by Exxon in the Rover Boy days to high-grade worldwide basin areas.<ref name=ch19r3>Kingston, D., R., 1992, The Rover Boys and other stories, in Hatley, A. G., Jr., ed., The Oil Finders: A Collection of Stories about Exploration: Tulsa, AAPG, p. 1–13.</ref> Understandably, specific objectives and results of these and other exploration field efforts rarely become public; they reside in company files due to their proprietary nature. Similarly, in the literature, results of exploration field efforts are not specifically stated as such but tend to be buried in the broader results published.

For example, geological fieldwork was applied successfully to an exploration program by Exxon in the [[Rover Boy]] days to high-grade worldwide basin areas.<ref name=ch19r3>Kingston, D., R., 1995, The Rover Boys and other stories, in Hatley, A. G., Jr., ed., The Oil Finders: A Collection of Stories about Exploration: Utopia, TX, Centex Press, p. 1–26.</ref> Understandably, specific objectives and results of these and other exploration field efforts rarely become public; they reside in company files due to their proprietary nature. Similarly, in the literature, results of exploration field efforts are not specifically stated as such but tend to be buried in the broader results published.

==First-order data==

==First-order data==