Jill Miller and Steve Huerta introduced Chevron’s new digital platform, designed to rationalize multiple independent IT organizations and applications and improve data access. The new IT comprises six ‘chapters’, agile, software engineering, cyber security, data engineering, data science and cloud/infrastructure. A migration from on-prem to (Microsoft Azure) cloud-native is underway including an extensive Esri ArcGIS landscape. A (small) component of which is the OSDU geospatial consumption zone that provides map services to the OSDU environment. Access is provided from a virtualized desktop environment and data products are delivered from Chevron’s common STAC data catalog, aka the spatio-temporal access catalog, a common language to describe geospatial information, so it can more easily be worked with, indexed and discovered.
Marco Terrazas presented TotalEnergies combined GIS and AI solution to estimate seismic uplift fees. Such fees are defined by contract and are payable if the date of entry into a new license or farm-in is posterior to the date of the contract signature. Total used ArcGIS pro to evaluate the spatial component of licenses and award dates. Total’s in-house (with help from Google) developed GAIA AI tool was used to search the contract document corpus. While the approach might seem like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, Terrazas reported that the pilot project was able to analyze thousands of documents and identified, in record time, 12 with uplift fees, resulting in ‘a $2 million saving’.
Eric James (Colonial Pipeline) and Garima Vyas (LOGIC Solutions) presented an automated earthquake notification system for pipeline operations. The solution was developed to speed up emergency response to potential earthquake damage. Logic Solutions built a system that checks the USGS earthquake activity feed every minute, evaluating its magnitude and proximity to a line. In the event of a potential hazard, the appropriate field personnel are notified for follow-up. The solution leveraged the USGS GeoJSON RSS feed, matched with spatially-buffered pipeline geometries read from a UPDM database. Both the USGS catalog and Colonial’s emergency operations procedures are now stored in UPDM tables. The solution combined Safe Software’s FME toolset and ArcGIS Enterprise.
Paul Herrmann and Luke Hamlin presented Chevron’s pipeline GIS modernization program, which is to enable a ‘high fidelity pipeline asset digital twin’. At the core of the system is a pipeline data management solution that spans Scada, GIS, SAP-PM, Aveva/FIP and more. PODS, the pipeline open data standard is described as the ‘emerging standard’ for pipeline data management in Chevron. Currently Chevron’s pipeline solution runs in-house. The ‘future’ cloud-based solution will embed more Esri products (in particular Pipeline Referencing) along with tools from New Century Software and Cartopac. All running on the latest PODS 7 Spatial database in the Azure cloud.
Brady Cline and Mansour Raad unveiled Esri’s new data science-oriented tools which make up a ‘comprehensive set of analytical methods and spatial algorithms for batch, interactive, real-time and scripted processing’. Esri’s big data offering is described as ‘cloud-native and Spark-native’. Apache Spark is a ‘multi-language engine for executing data engineering, data science, and machine learning on single-node machines or clusters’. The multi-cloud solution covers various Spark environments provided by Databricks. A new ArcGIS Knowledge application adds graph analytics to ArcGIS and brings ‘non-spatial’ analytics into the mix. ArcGIS Velocity for real time data also got a plug.
In a plenary presentation Kyle Daughtry and Athicha Dhanormchitphong spoke of ExxonMobil’s new way of working in the face of the data tsunami. This is (or will be) an all-3D visualization-based approach dubbed ‘SNOOP’ for scanning next gen operational oil and gas platform. SNOOP was demoed with a virtual reality exploration of a digital twin of Exxon’s Houston campus. Anticipated use cases include operator training and location-independent availability of subject matter expert. The solution is claimed to be ‘future proof’ and the plan is to keep data interoperable across business lines.
Also new at the show is a Demo Portal for the Esri petroleum User Group (PUG) which is to be updated based on user requests and activities.
More from the Esri events portal. These and other PUG presentations are available here. The 2022 European Energy Resources GIS Conference will be an in-person event in London in November.
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