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| Subject: | RE: GISList: GIS for petroleum Industry |
| Date: |
08/16/2001 09:58:42 AM |
| From: |
Gene Stahl |
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Sridhar -
GIS can be used for a multitude of ways in the petrol industry.
First off: You can locate in-ground resources of petroleum based against the
surface or subsurface material that are noramlly present in/around large or
usable deposits. You can also locate active or abandoned wells, and map
them in relation to other active or abandoned wells in a specific region.
This will allow a company to establish a more effective scheduled
maintenance route between all sites, distribution or storage points. One
can identify the fastest routes between a resource and distribution or
storage points, therby saving the company money on transportation. A GIS
can also be used to identify your pipes, pumps, siwtches and valves. Each
can be an icon on a GIS hard-product or digital view, and then linked to or
related to other items. Here's an example,
Pipe Segment B.....3 inch diametre
plastic material
orientation: 08 and 188 degrees (NNE)
beginning coordinate: (first lat/long
ending coordinate: (second lat/long)
installed: 9/1988
inspected: 9/1992, 1995, 1998
repaired: 1/1996
depth: -4.1 metres
nearest pump: 4 km, 188 degrees
nearest valve: .3 km, 188 degrees
connecting pipes: Pipe Segment A
Pipe Segment C
Now while all these are attribute of a specific length of pipe (Segment A)
they are are realted to other items in a database.
You can identify all the segments that have not been inspected, identify all
segmetn with the same material (if you find a defect in one...), detemine
flow rate through that segment, know where to dig for maintenance (saves
LOTS of time wth on-site maintenance crews.) you can identify the closest
road to a site, and the list goes on...For lots more on the industry, visit
http://www.itpapers.com/cgi/SubcatIT.pl?scid=327, it covers from Coalbed
Methane Trends to the Affects of e-Business on Refining & Petrochemical
Plant Operations.
Good luck.
Gene Stahl
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