The Role Geospatial in Non-Conventional Oil and Gas Plays
Speaker: Rick Watters, EnCana Corporation
10:05-10:50 a.m.
Learning Objectives:
- See an overview of how GIS is applied within the integrated oil business.
- Understand the challenges of implementing a GIS system into existing workflow.
- Take a look into potential applications of GIS in EnCana’s integrated oil business in the near future.
Within EnCana’s Integrated Oil Division, spatial technologies are used to help retain and retrieve information and create reports more easily. In the past, Encana has relied upon consultants to maintain and update data files of all reports. A GIS initiative has been developed using ArcGIS to show environmental and regulatory submission information geospatially on maps of current and future development areas. All information is being used by the environmental and regulatory groups to look at existing reports and locate sensitive areas themselves rather without having to rely on consulting groups. This presentation will detail the process of putting this environmental GIS program together and looking at where the program will go over the next five years.
Geospatial Critical Infrastructure Protection—An Integrated Corporate Approach
Speaker: Rob Brook, ESRI
10:05-10:50 a.m.
Learning Objectives:
- Discover the meaning of corporate critical infrastructure protection.
- Understand what can be done to develop an overall strategy for asset protection.
- Learn about advancements in corporate thinking related to public safety and asset management.
The idea of asset and facility management is not new. In fact, it has been the driving force behind the development of most GIS and data management systems. While these systems have revolutionized the industry they have significant limitations and do not meet evolving corporate requirements now focused on management integration. While the original strategies and applications were developed to meet the needs of a single department or operation unit, executives are now searching for effective methods to manage corporation-wide assets and asking vital questions about safety, efficiency, and operations that transcend traditional boundaries. This presentation will focus upon the concepts of integrated resource and asset management and initiatives for critical infrastructure management.
Regulatory Emergency Response Planning Changes and the Use of GIS
Speakers: Shell Clarke and Nola Lewis, Talisman Energy Inc.
11:05-11:50 a.m.
Learning Objectives:
- Receive a summary of the key changes from ERCB’s Directive 71, Emergency Preparedness and Response Requirements for the Petroleum Industry.
- Understand the challenges of implementing the changes.
- Learn how a GIS-based ERP provides the opportunity to manage regulatory changes efficiently and productively.
This presentation examines the key changes to Directive 71. The oil and gas industry is continually responding to regulatory changes. GIS-based ERP improves planning, preparedness, responsiveness, and communications. Learn from the speakers how a GIS-based ERP can allow for an easy transition for the new and changing regulated requirements.
Pipeline Database Models—The Who, How, and When of Modeling
Speakers: Andrew Saje, Enbridge Pipelines; Rob Brook, ESRI
11:05-11:50 a.m.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn what types of pipeline models are available and their differences.
- Discover how to choose the best model for your organisation.
- Hear a success story and learn from an implementation case study.
Information is one of the most valuable assets held by any organization. In many cases, data represents the only documentation about an asset's life history, and using it in any decision-making activity greatly decreases corporate risk. With this in mind, the pipeline data model has to be the foundation of any operator’s pipeline management strategy. The model provides a central location for the storage an organisation of data; it facilitates the integration and analysis of information data, and is the platform for GIS. This need only becomes more significant as pipeline operators address an expanding number of operational requirements, implement new technologies, and manage the resulting volumes of information. For a pipeline system and its GIS to be effective, the model that is selected must suit the specific needs of the operator. While the options can provide an operator with different opportunities, the selection of the appropriate type should be based on the organisation’s requirements, work flows, existing processes, and culture. The proper selection will allow an organisation to remove future hurdles and integration hardships. This presentation will analyze the criteria for selecting a model, the options currently available within the pipeline industry, recent industry modeling initiatives, and user experiences.
Bridging the Gap Between GIS and BI
Speaker: Tim Loser, TIBCO – Spotfire Division
1:00-1:45 p.m.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand different methods for integrating GIS to BI.
- Learn how complex analytics can be distributed in an organization.
- Understand the value of bridging BI and GIS platforms.
Business Intelligence and Business Analytic platforms have been adopted or are being at varying degrees throughout the industry. GIS platforms while being more mature in the energy sector, continue to evolve. The value of any platform like BI or GIS is in its ability to provide information in context at the right time fostering immediate insight. In this presentation we will discuss several approaches that illustrate how these two platforms can and should interact to provide this information in context. You will see how these interactions can be useful at all levels of an organization from the analyst to a light end consumer.
GIS in the Alberta Oil Sands
Speaker David Parker, Colt Geomatics
1:00-1:45 p.m.
The recoverable, proven reserves in the Alberta Oil Sands make up 174 (~82%) of the 211 billion total barrels of oil in North America. It is estimated that with improvements in technology, the 174 billion can be increased to 334 billion barrels of oil. Geomatics is an integral part of that improvement and it will continue to be critical to long-term operation of these assets.
This presentation will describe the discipline of Geomatics Engineering, how GIS is part of that and where Geomatics engineers are making contributions to improve the extraction of the second largest reserve of oil in the world.
Panel Discussion: Building the Business Case—Why Return on Investment is Important to the Oil and Gas Industry
Moderator:Daniel Shannon,TELUS Communications
Speakers: Susan Ancel, EPCOR; Jon Connick, Nexen Inc.; Joseph Hlady,Colt Geomatics
1:50-2:50 p.m.
Geospatial information technology (GIT) implementations are often expensive, complex investments, with benefits that are difficult to quantify or predict. Because these investments compete for funding within organisations, understanding the financial impact of GIT and quantifying related benefits is vital to a program’s long term success. A diverse panel of geospatial professionals who have embraced ROI and business case methodologies to substantiate GIT expenditures several different industries will share their experiences and insight into making financial sense of geospatial implementations.
Bending at the Knees: Heavy Lifting Using Spatial Services
Speaker: Jason Humber, Integrated Informatics, Inc.
3:15-4:00 p.m.
Learning Objectives:
- Gain a broad understanding of the types of spatial Web services
- Learn how complex workflows can be distributed via Web technologies.
- Understand the benefits of using Web services to perform spatial processing.
Web service usage in Energy sector GIS implementations has stalled at the consumption of external data via geo-data and web map services. Companies utilizing server-side technologies are focusing entirely on producing mapping while sometimes ignoring the benefits that can be realized through exposing and embedding centrally stored GIS functionality.
While the practice of managing corporate spatial data is becoming commonplace within the GIS community, the management of the data is a means to an end and not the end itself. Spatially enabled services can offer much more than data consumption and can provide GIS practitioners and professionals the ability to perform heavy lifting geospatial processing in the desktop and Web-based environment. Consolidating corporate capability into well-defined and reusable tasks should be the next step in infusing and extracting value from vast corporate data repositories. This presentation will discuss the design philosophy behind spatial services and will showcase examples of spatial services being used for specialized workflows in a corporate environment.
Implications on the Horizon: Key Oil & Gas Industry Environmental Issues
Speaker: Samantha Chin, P.Eng., WorleyParsons Infrastructure and Environment
3:15-4:00 p.m.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand why geospatial technology can be an invaluable tool in the pre-planning phase of development.
- Demonstrate that geospatial technology can be a bridge between oil and gas operators, government regulators and other key stakeholders—i.e. the public.
- See how geospatial technology helps manage different data sources to provide a visual guide that can be powerful in making decisions regarding development and safeguarding the environment.
Now more than ever, there is great concern and focus on environmental considerations of oil and gas industry operations. Geospatial technology is contributing to the balance between resource development and safeguarding environmental assets. This presentation will integrate two major topics: environmental issues as they relate to oil and gas, and regulatory issue and compliance. The presentation will demonstrate how geospatial technology is being used as a tool to aid oil and gas operators and government regulators in the pre-planning phase to make proactive decisions with respect to engineering design—reducing the impact on the environment and meeting the regulatory requirements of government and to help inform all stakeholders. |
