Wednesday Educational Sessions
Wednesday, September 24 • 8:30 a.m.
Imagery + Digital Parcels = Geospatial Solutions for New Construction, Exploration and Compliance
Track: Corridor Management
David Nale, Emap International
Learning Objectives:
- Intergration of new & evolving geospatial technologies.
- Applying imagery & digital parcels to current real property management.
Satellite imagery companies have launch new high resolution and and positionally accurate imaging satellites that provide global imagery coverage. At the same time major corporations are building out, for the first time ever, national digital parcel databases. The integration of these new and evolving technologies will provide oil and gas managers with new and effecient methods for managing assets.
Wednesday, September 24 • 10:30 a.m.
Building a GIS
Track: Business Process Integration/New and Evolving Technology
Dave Peters, ESRI
Learning Objectives:
- How to select the right GIS software technology.
- How to select the right hardware technology.
- How capacity planning tools can make a difference.
System Architecture Design is not a step-by-step process. It is more like working on a puzzle. The system must be understood as a whole before it comes together. Like the pieces of a puzzle, each interacting component is related to others in a very special way. These special relationships emerge during the design process to reveal their significance. The components of this puzzle are what we will discuss in Building a GIS.
High-resolution Digital Elevation Models for Land Management
Track: Corridor Management/New and Evolving Technology
Morris Akbari, Harris Corporation
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about DEM applications for oil and gas.
- See the latest data sources for DEM creation.
- Discover advanced methodology in creating a DEM.
High-resolution terrain data provide essential information to the oil and gas industry when planning for corridor right of way, land restoration, damage prevention, risk management, and emergency response/damage prevention. This paper will review the state-of-the-art of high-resolution, dense digital surface model (DSM), and high-resolution digital terrain model (DTM) obtained from commercial sources, including satellite imagery, LiDAR, radar, and aerial stereo photography. Examples will be presented from each source, with post spacings ranging from 5 meters down to 0.1 meters.
Copresenters: Trent Casi, Harris Corporation; John Van Workum, Harris Corporation
Wednesday, September 24 • 11:20 a.m.
Aerial Remote Sensing Technology for Pipeline Management
Track: Corridor Management/New and Evolving Technology
Daniel Lee, Surveying and Mapping, Inc. (SAM, Inc.)
Learning Objectives:
- Increase understanding of automation of tools and reporting for corridor management.
- Gain knowledge of new and emerging technologies.
- Expand capabilities in corridor management.
Aerial remote sensing and advanced geospatial technology have the potential to revolutionize the acquisition, processing, and integration of spatial data into a pipeline GIS database. This presentation will focus on advances in the way end-users interface with the technology, including digital multispectral cameras, specialized off-the-shelf software, routines that perform rule-based feature extraction, batch processing, and more, and how advances in these techniques have opened the possibility to automation of the complex routines in remote sensing.
Copresenter: Kevin Conlon, Surveying and Mapping, Inc. (SAM, Inc.)
Integrated Pipeline GIS, Finance, and Work Management
Track: Business Process Integration
Jeff Allen, Coler & Colantonio, Inc.
Learning Objectives:
- Broaden the vision of synergies between pipeline asset management, financial accounting, and work.
- Reveal cost-saving opportunities through streamlined operations and total cost of ownership.
- Strengthen the tie between finance and operations through technology.
The next horizon for integrated work and asset management is the marrying of core pipeline management with financial, material, and maintenance planning management. Participants in this session will learn how these interfaces between core cooperate systems can enable pipeline organization to manage assets from procurement to installation to retirement and work order scheduling from planning to costing to completion.
Wednesday, September 24 • 1:00 p.m.
GIS and Survey Grade Data for Urban Oil and Gas Operations
Track: Corridor Management/ New and Evolving Technology/ Regulatory Compliance and Integrity Management
Robert Young, Digital Mapping Services, LLC
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the value of GIS in urban oil and gas operations.
- Discover reasons for survey grade data points for decision-making.
- Ease compliance with municipal ordinances in site selection.
Urbanized drilling operations have created more value for GIS professionals as the ongoing changes in municipal ordinances and other regulatory agencies are applied for compliance and permitting. This involves buffering when choosing a well site and pipeline routes in populated urbanized areas. The use of high-resolution aerial data, along with survey grade data of boundary lines, physical improvements, and other hazards that create the criteria for location of facilities, saves time and money.
Mobilize Your Enterprise and Achieve ROI—Transform Your GIS into the Foundation for a Field Automation Solution
Track: Business Process Integration
Stuart Sieg, MapFrame Corporation
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how GIS can serve as the basis for field automation solution.
- Discover why field users embrace a map-centric approach to field automation.
- See how Williams Gas Pipeline automates the field workforce through a GIS-based solution.
By compressing GIS data, and interfacing with other back office systems, GIS can become the basis for automating all field operations. This presentation will focus on the business benefits and return on investment of using GIS for a field automation solution. Attendees will learn why field workers embrace a map-based approach to field automation and discover how this approach creates ROI from GIS and brings value to the entire organization.
Wednesday, September 24 • 1:50 p.m.
Just the Facts; Assessing the Value of Enterprise-Wide Data Integration
Track: Business Process Integration
Matt G. Thomas, Spectra Energy
Learning Objectives:
- An understanding of the role data integration plays in the O&G industry.
- A clear understanding of one company's business process integration strategy.
- Ideas on solutions in facility life-cycle management & web-based integration.
The presentation will highlight the challenges the oil and gas industry faces from the perspective of Spectra Energy and will provide real solutions to these challenges including a demonstration of Spectra's web-based GIS (EDGE). Focusing on application development and business process integration, this session is a perfect opportunity for managers and developers to step into the shoes of a company that has made significant progress in their goal of realizing true data integration on the enterprise level.
Extending Pipeline Relational Database Models into ArcGIS
Track: Business Process Integration
David Nemeth, Panhandle Energy
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss data model migration challenges facing owners of legacy systems.
- Discover how to leverage existing data models into new GIS technologies.
- Review interim strategies to overcome short-term data model limitations.
Learn how technology leader Panhandle Energy avoided orphaning its rich suite of relational database-centric legacy systems. This was accomplished by enhancing original relational database into an object-oriented event-based data model. The company’s migration strategy now meets current business needs; no code changes are required for existing legacy applications while allowing Panhandle Energy to fully leverage the power of ESRI for its GIS-centric analysis projects.
Copresenter:John Spangler, GE Oil & Gas, PII Pipeline Solutions
Wednesday, September 24 • 2:40 p.m.
Disaster Management in Oilfield Using GIS and RFID
Track: Emergency Response/Damage Prevention
Haroon Sharif, LMK Resources
Learning Objectives:
- Use GIS for emergency response management in an oilfield.
- See how GIS and RFID technology are used in preparing emergency evacuation plans.
- Learn about human/asset tracking systems and its benefits for emergency response teams.
Solutions exist to cater to the various aspects of emergency response setup in an oilfield. All these systems are dependent on the quality and availability of relevant information. However, one of the most important factors in determining the relevancy, is the fourth dimension (time) of certain datasets, which has not been catered to until now. GIS, in collaboration with RFID technology, can create 4-D datasets, thus make planning, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery more efficient.
Copresenters: Mohammad Ishfaq, LMK Resources; Haroon Sharif, LMK Resources; Osman Jilano, LMK Resources; Adnan Zahoor, LMK Resources; Furqan Raza, LMK Resources
Using GIS to Support New Pipeline Construction and Material Procurement—Case Study
Track: New and Evolving Technology/Business Process Integration
Abhay Chand, Petro IT Pvt. Ltd.
Learning Objectives:
- Discover how geospatially-based management of project Q\A activities can improve productivity.
- See why geospatial management of project activities provides an effective tool for stakeholder communication.
- Understand Web-based technology that is easy to deploy and manage.
The geographic nature of managing both materials delivery and construction activities for pipelines provides a unique opportunity to use GIS technology to reduce project risks and improve overall project productivity. Presenters will demonstrate a Web-based GIS solution that manages all material and construction activity from project inception through commission and hand-off to operations. Daily progress and location is tracked and processed against a baseline plan and quality assurance library, and all issues are communicated through a project dashboard.
Copresenter: MichaelGloven, NRG Technologies
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