The Meridian Resoures Exloration Company Knowledge Backbone (SM)		

A1	Manage Assets 	
A11		Provide Controls
A12		Manage Financial Resources
A13		Provide Infrastructure
A14		Manage Relationships
A15		Provide Leadership
A2	Acquire Assets and Leases	
A21		Identify Aquisition Opportunity
A22		Quantify Acquisition
A23		Evaluate Economics of Acquisition
A24		Select Acquisition
A25		Procure Asset
A3	Enhance Assets	
A31		Acquire and Manage Data
A311			Acquire Data	
A3111				Acquire NRG & MMS Data for AMI-045
A3112				Acquire A2D Data for AMI-045
A3113				Acquire drillinginfo.com data for AMI-045
A3114				Identify and Acquire other Relevent Data for AMI-045
A3115				Index Data Against Infinite Grid(SM)
A312			Manage Legacy Data	
A3121				Hire Graduate Students to Collect Legacy Publications
A3122				Collect Legacy Maps
A3123				Capture Legacy Maps with Digital Camera
A3124				Sponge Digital Maps into The Infinite Grid (SM)
A313			Manage Regional Data	
A314			Manage Play Fairway Data	
A315			Manage Prospect Data	
A32		Assess Strategic Fit		
A321			 Interpret Regional Data	
A3211				Negotiate Contract to Develop Context	
A3212				Identify Existing Ownership	
A3213				Define Hydrocarbon System	
A32131					Map Existing Reservoir Size: Shallow and Deep
A32132					Define Controlling E-W Growth Faults
A32133					Define N-S Offsets Due to Time-Pressure Migration Cells
A32134					"Identify Areas Between, Underneath, and to the Side of Time-Pre"
A32135					Identify Traps based on Temperature/Pressure Pods
A3214				"Use Existing 6,000 mile 2-D and Available 3-D Seismic Data Base"	
A3215				Map Historical Probability of Success	
A3216				Develop a Field Analog Database To Compare To New Opportunities	
A322			 Evaluate Regional Economics		
A323			Package Regional Report		
A33		Determine Political & Engineering Uncertainty			
A331			Determine Risk of the Play Fairway Geologic Model		
A332			Evaluate  Play Fairway Economics		
A333			Package Leads and Play Fairway Report
A34		Develop Risked Prospect Model	
A341			"Calculate Prospect Area, Thickness, Porosity, Water Saturation,"
A342			"Calcuate Prospect Volumes, Formation Volume Factor,  Recovery E"
A343			Define Migration Pathway
A35		Define Prospect Economic Indicators	
A351			Estimate Production Forecast
A352			Estimate Operating and Capital Expense
A353			Calculate Economic Measures and Probability of Creating Value
A354			Package and Sell Prospect