BP Amoco Hands 40 Years of Paleontological Research to University of Utah
University of UtahForty years worth of proprietary paleontological research will be released to the public this week when BP Amoco hands its Paleontological Data System software and database to the Energy and Geoscience Institute (EGI) at the University of Utah. Recently appraised at $11.3 million, the database contains information on the evolutionary origination and extinction of all fossil groups necessary for making geological interpretations relevant to the exploration and development of oil and gas. It contains almost worldwide coverage of evolutionary sequences for these fossils across 500 million years.