Released on: September 26, 2008, 12:28 am

Press Release Author: Gis@SBL

Industry: Environment

Press Release Summary: A sound understanding of geography is needed in every step of
a petroleum industry starting from locating a place to drill a well, route a
pipeline from the exploration site to the refinery plant, finding an ideal location
for a refinery and lot more.

Press Release Body: The use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is gathering
momentum in Oil and petroleum industry as a powerful tool for analyzing and
displaying data.

GIS services can be applied in various stages during the development of projects,
including: Petroleum Exploration, Production, Managing Facilities & Pipeline
Management

Petroleum Exploration:
Gis facilitates the analysis and integration of a lot of different types of data
such as satellite imagery, seismic surveys, digital aerial photo mosaics, surface
geology studies, subsurface and cross section interpretations and images, well
locations, and existing infrastructure information.

Production:
Innovative GIS technology is ideally suited for the overlay analysis of geographic,
infrastructure, business conditions, and environmental factors and which can be
integrated with other business risk or economic business planning engines to
provide a focused business solution tool set.

Managing Facilities:
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.

Pipeline Management :
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.

Some of the GIS solutions currently offered by SBL In Oil and Petroleum Industry:

• 3D Modeling


• Photogrammetry


• Lidar Data Processing


• GPS Navigation


• 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