A method for contacting people involves identifying, prior to an exploration and production (E&P) tool session, a first person accessing a first portion of the historic information in a subterranean formation field data set, adding, prior to the E&P tool session, the first person to a people-in-context list by at least storing an identifier of the first person with a reference to the first portion of the historic information, presenting, during the E&P tool session to a user controlling the E&P tool session, a selection menu based on the people-in-context list, receiving, during the E&P tool session, a first selection from the user, wherein the first selection identifies the first person from the selection menu, and establishing, in response to the first selection from the user, a first communication session between the user and the first person in the people-in-context list.