Tuesday Educational Sessions
Tuesday, September 23 • 8:00 a.m.
GIS ROI/Business Case Development
Track: New and Evolving Technology
Andrew Robison, PA Consulting Group
Learning Objectives:
- Build robust ROI-based GIS business cases.
- Establish a framework for delivering benefits of GIS business case.
- Develop an implementation roadmap for GIS initiatives.
This paper will provide an overview of a methodology for enabling managers in oil and gas companies to build robust ROI-based GIS business cases and establish the confidence to deliver successfully on the benefits described. This end-to-end methodology addresses a means to win the hearts and minds of decision-makers and the entire business—as well as help define the quantifiable benefits.
Using Geospatial Solutions to Meet Distribution Integrity Management Requirements
Track: Regulatory Compliance and Integrity Management
Robert McElroy, New Century Software, Inc.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the demands Distribution Integrity Management (DIM) regulations will place on your GIS.
- Use geospatial solutions developed for transmission pipelines to meet DIM requirements.
- See how distribution operators can integrate data to make informed integrity management decisions.
This presentation will focus on Distribution Integrity Management (DIM) regulations and the role GIS technology will play in complying with the new requirements. Attendees will learn geospatial solutions developed for gas transmission pipelines to meet DIM requirements. Data requirements, models, storage, and integration will also be presented. Examples of how risk-based decision-making can improve operational efficiency and resource allocation will be shown.
Tuesday, September 23 • 8:50 a.m.
Real-time Video Monitoring and Remote Sensing for Corridor Management
Track: Emergency Response/Damage Prevention
Brenda Burroughs, Sanborn
- Understand the value of 24/7 monitoring for high incident areas.
- See how surveillance allows for quick action when intrusion occurs
- Learn about record keeping for incidents and intrusions.
A variety of technologies are available for monitoring, managing, and maintaining pipeline systems. Conventional monitoring is most commonly done using visual observation from aircraft flying the pipeline on a weekly or monthly schedule. Detection of unauthorized encroachment and security risk events with aerial observation is low due to inherent limitations with this monitoring approach. Advanced technologies are now available to assist in more frequent monitoring than aircraft to increase pipeline mapping and safety needs of the industry.
GIS Mobile—A Portable GIS Solution for Pipeline Field Personnel
Track: Corridor Management/New and Evolving Technology/Business Process Integration
Robert Weddell, Marathon Oil Company
Learning Objectives:
- Get an introduction to the architecture of a mobile GIS solution.
- Understand the challenges associated with data synchronization.
- Learn techniques for integrating commercial software and custom applications.
Marathon’s GIS Mobile solution provides pipeline field personnel with a user-friendly mapping tool for accessing GIS data and alignment sheets while in locations without network connectivity. Map layers include pipeline assets, operating area boundaries, aerial imagery, streets, topographic data, and political boundaries. The solution architecture combines commercial GIS software with a custom application for data synchronization, ensuring that the data remains current. Additional features include geocoding, route optimization, annotation, and support for pipeline stationing.
Copresenter: Douglas Carr, Marathon Oil Company
Tuesday, September 23 • 9:40 a.m.
Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies with Homeland Security
Track: Emergency Response/Damage Prevention
Paul Christin, ESRI
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to collaborate with government agencies in CIP process.
- Gain insight into data requirements and models for critical infrastructure protection.
- Better understand the interdependencies with emergency management.
Protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure is as much an outcome of good analysis and planning as it is an exercise in physically securing assets. GIS provides functionality to accurately locate the physical location of critical assets, and identify and model potential risks and vulnerabilities associated with natural or man-made disasters. GIS can also model the effects of damage or loss of a critical infrastructure to the continuity of operations.
Implementing ArcGIS Server 3-D Globe Services with Oil Infrastructure
Track: New and Evolving Technology
Rick Lovel, HDR Engineering, Inc.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about 3-D virtual immersive environments as effective hazard training tools.
- Establish “sense of place” to communicate spatial data.
- Innovatively use of technology in assisting business processes.
Virtual 3-D mashup environments utilizing massive amounts of geospatial data (including LIDAR) coupled with interactivity are demonstrated in this immersive prototype, completed for North Slope oil operations. Using ESRI tools including ArcGIS Server, ArcGlobe, SDE, and ArcGIS Explorer, HDR Engineering completed a highly functional and responsive 3-D GIS prototype that ultimately won their oil and gas client a European Green IT Award for “Use of IT to Support Green Process or People Change.”
Tuesday, September 23 • 10:30 a.m.
The Quest for Dark Matter and Data / Application Portability
Track: Business Process Integration
Ron Brush, New Century Software, Inc.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn 12 important factors that help or inhibit data portability in your GIS.
- Learn 12 critical factors for application portability in your GIS.
- Learn 6 application design factors that make applications more portable.
Data portability is a fact of life for all GIS systems. It could be through a sale/acquisition of a pipeline system, a database upgrade, or data exchange with a vendor. In this presentation we will look at more than a dozen factors that will either help or inhibit data portability. We will also explore more than a dozen criteria needed for application portability. At what of Dark Matter? Wait and see.
Management of Direct Assessment Data
Track: Business Process Integration/Regulatory Compliance and Integrity Management
Dana Book, GE Oil & Gas, PII Pipeline Solutions
Learning Objectives:
- Determine regions and indirect inspection methodologies to apply.
- See how to use the large amounts of indirect inspection data to locate and prioritize indications.
- Understand how to capture direct examination results and determine remaining life.
This presentation will focus on the data challenges faced with external corrosion direct assessment (ECDA) projects, including the management of vast amounts of field-collected data, and making certain that the correct amount of data is available for analysis purposes.
Tuesday, September 23 • 11:20 a.m.
Foundations of the New Enterprise: Managing Corridor Asset Data Using Enterprise Geospatial Business Systems and SOA
Track: Corridor Management
Casey Adams, ERDAS, Inc.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to use geospatial-enabled enterprise to solve problems.
- Learn about new technologies used for collecting asset data.
- Learn how to associate unstructured asset data (photos etc.) with business information.
In an ever more connected, scrutinized and flattened world, we are increasingly faced with the challenges surrounding how we collect, manage and analyze asset data. Today, pens, paper and colored pencils simply do not suffice: people want to know the state of critical infrastructure right now, in real-time. In this session we will discuss how enterprise geospatial-enabled business systems are enabling organizations to deliver crucial information to the people who need it right now
Leveraging Geospatial Technology in Field Development Planning
Track: Corridor Management
Michael Crape, Altus Geomatics
Learning Objectives:
- Methodology for integration of spatial data into E&P field planning process.
- Creation of legacy data sets that benefit all aspects of E&P.
- Enhancement of Project Cost Management.
Altus Geomatics has initiated numerous projects in the Western Sedimentary Basin that use Imagery, LiDAR and Land Information to create accurate and detailed models of project areas for presentation and analysis in a collaborative online setting. Stakeholders are able to run real time site and route selection scenarios for proposed development. Using this methodology, terrain variances and proximity impacts can be analyzed to determine optimal routing and accurate project cost estimates . Altus has also successfully introduced this process into regulatory agencies as an acceptable means to submit application for development activities.
Tuesday, September 23 • 2:40 p.m.
External Data Referencing on the Web
Track: New and Evolving Technology
Andy Tanner, Willbros Engineers/EPC, Inc.
Learning Objectives:
- Use the Web to connect non-spatial data models to your GIS.
- Utilize results from different departments for company-wide benefit.
- Learn why database structure does not matter when performing Web publishing.
Learn how to use the Web to connect non-spatial data models to your GIS. This method is being used to link geodatabases to third-party proprietary data models, as well as legacy databases. Presenters will discuss how to quickly publish a Web mapping application to give individuals across different organizations timely access to project-specific geographic information. Presenters will also discuss how publishing Web-based map services can help organizations avoid costly data modeling sessions and time-intensive software configuration.
Copresenter: Roger Eldridge, Colonial Pipeline Company
Monitoring Threats—Are Your Leaks Attached to Your Pipes?
Track: Regulatory Compliance and Integrity Management
James Stout, UGI Utilities, Inc
Learning Objectives:
- Understand why the new DIMP regulations may justify investments in leak data collection.
- Identify best practices for geospatial leak data modeling and data capture.
- Review business processes that may require changes to facilitate data capture and quality control.
Distribution Integrity Management* (DIMP) regulations will require distribution operators to monitor threats to the integrity of their network. Leak, repair, and pipe inspection reports contain important information about new threats and pipe condition. Many operators do not have an effective process for associating leaks and inspections with the correct pipe. Presenters will share experiences working with several customers to geo-code leaks and inspections and associate them with the best-matching pipe in the GIS.
Copresenter: Anthony Sileo, Opvantek, Inc.
*Please note that DIMP was incorrectly referred to in the printed program. GITA would like to apologize for this oversight.
Tuesday, September 23 • 3:30 p.m.
Application of CGA VA Pilot Technology by Excavators and One-call
Track: New and Evolving Technology/Corridor Management
Louis Panzer, IRTH Solutions, Inc.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about VA Pilot Phase One results.
- Get an introduction to the technology that allows electronic white lining.
- Integrate mobile GPS points with one-call center GIS.
The Common Ground Alliance successfully concluded phase one of a pilot program to demonstrate the effectiveness of mobile phones to gather GPS points for proposed excavation sites. The resulting potential for industry savings through reduced one-call notifications, reduced damages, and improved communications will be discussed as well as the current and future use of the technology. The benefits to the industry, the challenges, and a demonstration of the integrated solutions will be provided.
Copresenter: JiYoung Kim, Vettro
Elements of Leak Survey
Track: Regulatory Compliance and Integrity Management/New and Evolving Technology
Langley Willauer, InMaps
Learning Objectives:
- Find out the state-of-the-art of leak survey from an IT perspective.
- Understand the benefits and drawbacks of tying this activity into GIS.
- See what is possible to automate and some of the ways this has been done.
Local distribution companies are required to regularly survey their facilities for leaks. This process has been going on for decades, with many different technologies applied to detection, as well as tracking surveys and recording leaks. Today, companies use work management, mobile solutions, GPS, GIS, and billing systems to automate processes. This presentation will explore all of these elements and define what a complete solution, using current technology, could look like.
Copresenter: Alicia Farag, GTI
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