Oil and Gas industry

Geospatial information has become the key to the interpretation and decision making process in the Oil and gas industry. From finding an apt location to drill a well to routing the pipelines from the exploration site to the refinery, a good comprehension of the geographic details becomes an essential part as intelligent business decisions heavily rely on these information.

The geographical data provide information like the presence of oil in a particular region, the mining distance, whether oil is present or not etc. The region is also sealed, if no further mining is needed there.

The spatial components of the day-to-day petroleum business objectives such as wells, pipelines, environmental concerns, leases, retail outlets etc can be now effectively managed by the support of the spatial information through different spatial cartridges.

We can deliver GIS services spanning various stages of project development including:

Petroleum Exploration:

Petroleum exploration demands a thorough understanding of different data such as satellite imagery, digital aerial photo mosaics, seismic surveys, surface geology studies, subsurface and cross section interpretations and images, well locations, and existing infrastructure information. GIS combines these data together to the location in question which allows you to view, overlay and manipulate the data in the form of a map to analyze the potential for finding new or extensive potentials in detail.

GIS programs can be utilized to monitor the condition and flow of pipelines and determine the best pipeline locations to transport oil off the fields and to the refineries.

Production:

For the proper functioning of the found reserves, the company must initially identify certain geographic, infrastructural, business and environmental factors about the area in question. Innovative GIS technology is ideally suited for the overlay analysis which can be integrated to other business risk/economic business planning engines to provide a focused business solution tool set.

Managing Facilities:

What has evolved out of the global nature of the petroleum industry is an unmanageable and colossal infrastructure. A large, integrated oil company must keep track of every minute detail from drilling platforms to pipeline networks and to refineries for their advancement in this highly competitive business area. Geospatial information can be aptly used to map the gathering and transmission of products to a facility. Once this process is accomplished, integration with more traditional "in-plant" infrastructure management systems, such as CAD, attribute records, and scanned documents, allow the true geographic placement of CAD entities complementing the CAD architecture.

Pipeline Management:

The creation and management of a functional pipeline network requires in-depth analysis and study of geographical locations, business requirements, and managed utilization of resources leading to optimal productions and movement of crude and refined oil from petroleum reserves to refinery, and then to storage units respectively. GIS can be used in the site location process to minimize environmental impacts during construction, accidental release as well as to minimize the costs of permits and liability risks associated with accidental releases.

Some of the GIS solutions currently offered by SBL are:

3D Modeling
Photogrammetry
Lidar Data Processing
Corporate GIS data management
Map production and presentation
Digital Elevation Modeling and Hydrological Modeling
Environmental sensitivity analysis and modeling
Network analysis
Pipeline route optimization and pipeline leakage risk
Internet mapping and image web server solutions
Work flow analysis
Conversion of data to GIS format
Linkage of oil spill model to GIS.
Retail market analysis.
Distribution analysis.
Market pattern analysis by demographics.
CAD Drafting and Designing
CAD to GIS conversion
Retail outlet supply routing and many moreâ€¦

Future Expectations

Geologic Evaluation
Reservoir Analysis
Seismic Acquisition (access of seismic data and well logs)
Land / Lease Management
Drilling Activity Analysis
Competitor Analysis
Mergers and Acquisitions
Gas Marketing
Improved integration with our relational databases.
A truly global paradigm, where locations on the earth include "metadata" like Geodetic datum, Cartesian projection/spheroid parameters, etc.
Improved "Conflation" tools. "Conflation" is the process of merging two or more GIS datasets, so that the output has the highest accuracy data from all the inputs. As surveying tools and GIS data from satellite and ortho photo images continues to improve, existing maps and GIS datasets must be "high graded", i.e. adjusted to remain consistent with the newer data. Managing this process may well be the biggest challenge.
Advanced analytical tools for Retail outlet management. Integration of Mobile GIS services helping in optimized business solutions etc