This IDC Flash describes how one global energy company exploits the unique geospatial entity extraction capabilities that MetaCarta delivers to transform its corporate knowledge base into a strategic information resource for energy exploration and decision making. Geographic information is a vital component of energy exploration. Drilling in the wrong location can cost an energy company hundreds of millions of dollars ? while drilling in the right place can lead to a multibillion-dollar gusher. It's critical to look at all the information that is available to make informed decisions ? and that information is usually stored in many places, in many formats, and in many applications. Yet geography is often an important facet for unifying access to both unstructured and structured content. End users within this global energy company needed an effective way to retrieve information within their corporate knowledge base, and to rapidly find content that was locked in more than fifty information silos. With its geospatial information retrieval solution, MetaCarta provided unified access to these silos for the petroleum engineers, geologists, and other specialists who needed to conduct research, analyze problems, and make decisions.