Oil and gas exploration is expensive and risky. Although seismic technology has become increasingly sophisticated and powerful, the industry expends more than $4 billion every year to collect and process massive amounts of data - with no guarantee of success. Increasing complexity, expanding data sets, and shorter cycle times for analysis are conflicting industry trends that all must be addressed. Mercury's breakthrough solutions tackle these issues head-on, and have been successfully implemented in exploration, well planning, seismic visualization, and volume rendering.