FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION
June 15, 2004

Aeroterra S.A. announces the completion of the
"Seminar: GIS in the Petroleum Industry"

Buenos Aires, Argentina - (June 15, 2004) - In order to share the latest developments of the ArcGIS family of products with the oil industry, Aeroterra S.A., the ESRI distributor in Argentina and Uruguay, organized a seminar that was sponsored by the Spanish oil company REPSOL YPF. The seminar was fully supported by ESRI Redlands.

It was was held on June 8, 2004 at the Buenos Aires Sheraton Hotel & Convention Center and hosted more than 70 participants that represented more than 20 oil & gas-related companies. There were several presentations including one from ESRI's Sheila Sullivan and from different ArcGIS users from the Oil & Gas industry.

"The attendance to this seminar was much greater than expected", said Carlos Viola, President & CEO of Aeroterra. "We are planning to repeat this seminar each year and also to do similar events for other industries as well".

The presentations included: (i) ArcGIS 9: Corporate applications for the petroleum industry; (ii) ArcIMS Metadata Explorer; (iii) Geotools; (iv) Geodatabase Data Model, (v) Geochemistry, (vi) 3D Compilation, and (vii) Digital Processing of Satellite Images.

AEROTERRA S.A. es una organización que desde su creación en 1973 lidera el campo del geoprocesamiento en el mercado latinoamericano. Distribuidora exclusiva de los Sistemas ArcInfo y Leica Imaging Products (ERDAS) en las Repúblicas de Argentina y Uruguay, AEROTERRA cuenta con una base instalada de más de 2500 licencias en más de 700 clientes. Según estudios del BID (1995) y del Gobierno de Canadá (1997/8) la empresa tiene más del 80% del mercado de software GIS en Argentina. Compuesta por un grupo multidisciplinario de alrededor de 50 personas totalmente dedicadas a tareas relacionadas con el geoprocesamiento, utiliza las más adelantadas herramientas disponibles en el mercado mundial para suplir las necesidades de geoinformación de una amplia variedad de clientes en todo el mundo.