GIS for Facilities Management

Managing Facilities Worldwide

The global nature of the petroleum industry results in an infrastructure that is vast and difficult to manage. A large, integrated oil company must keep track of everything from drilling platforms to pipeline networks to refineries. The commercial, operational, and often harsh environmental conditions in which these facilities exist make it critical that they be planned, operated, and maintained effectively.

Often, finding an economic reserve is as much dependent on a practically and properly implemented facilities structure as it is on the exploration and production itself. Certainly the profitability of a commercial venture is often heavily dependent on the facility and pipeline infrastructure.

GIS can be used to map the gathering and transmission of products to a facility. Once there, integrating with more traditional "in plant" infrastructure management systems, such as CAD, attribute records, and scanned documents, allows the true geographic placement of CAD entities complementing the CAD architecture.

ESRI Business Partners

ESRI's Business Partners also offer automated mapping/facilities management solutions integrated with ESRI's GIS technology and with the leading CAD technologies.