But the Esquel referendum has made many companies leery, said Patricio Jones, an exploration geologist.

While many exploration geologists attest to the value of BLEG, some question its value compared to analyzing a simple sieved-out fine grained fraction.

Geophysicists and exploration geologists who look for oil and gas fields classify the subsurface characteristics, or tectonic setting, of geological structures that contain hydrocarbons.

Computer-enhanced techniques will so bolster the efforts of exploration geologists over the next 10 years, he says, that a dry hole in North America will prove rare in the next century.

He then worked as an exploration geologist for Standard Oil in the Orinoco jungles of Venezuela.

Barringer left the United Kingdom to accept a post in Toronto, Canada with Selco Exploration as an exploration geologist.

Ziegler's career consists of 33 years as exploration geologist with the petroleum industry, 30 of which with Shell, and 20 years of university teaching and research.

In 1979, he accepted employment as an exploration geologist with Santa Fe Minerals Inc., in Dallas, Texas.

Concurrent with his duties as an exploration geologist, he was actively involved in the application of new imaging technology for industrial applications in deep water engineering projects and biological research.

Reilly, an exploration geologist, has a career spanning from wildcat oil wells to uranium mining.