Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) in Oil & Gas Industry Using GIS

The best approach to operational HSE management in the oil and gas industry is prevention. Mapping a path to preparedness with plans for evacuations, containment, and mitigation can save lives and property in an emergency. Advanced maps and spatial analysis reveal vulnerabilities that leaders can proactively address. Knowing where people and assets are located in real time helps minimize risk if an emergency occurs.

Predictive analytics

Develop corporate social responsibility, protect biodiversity and the environment, and advance net-zero commitments with proactive decisions.
Smart maps and dashboards

Geospatial analytics and visualization help leading companies realize the strategic and financial benefits of HSE programs.

Health and safety
Environment and biodiversity
Net-zero carbon emissions
CSR
Emergency response

Health and safety

Health and safety processes generate large quantities of data. The data originates from incidents, inspections, noise and air quality monitoring, driving logs, and other sources that are often prone to error and time-consuming and costly to manage. GIS enables digital workflows to improve collection, reduce errors, and drive new analytics and insights from this data for safer, more efficient operations.

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Environment and biodiversity

Energy companies strive to find ways to meet the public demand for low-cost energy products and maintain corporate social and environmental responsibility, including biodiversity protection. Many leading companies are realizing strategic, operational, and financial benefits by including biodiversity conservation in their decision-making, policies, and operations. GIS can help.

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Net-zero carbon emissions

The number of companies publicly committing to reducing carbon emissions has become a barometer for corporate awareness about the climate change threat. Business leaders are rewriting strategies around sustainability and employing advanced technology like GIS to analyze data on how their operations contribute to greenhouse gas production and associated carbon emissions.

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR)

Whether your CSR initiatives are environmental, philanthropic, ethical, economic, or a mix of each, GIS provides a robust platform to enable your efforts. From energy transmission and emissions reporting to racial equity and any CSR effort, GIS provides a data management, analytics, and reporting communications platform to engage stakeholders internally or externally via easy-to-understand maps and reports.

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Emergency response

Understand the risks and respond in real time. In today's complex world, emergency teams must be better informed and flexible at all points during a response effort. Successfully planning for and responding to growing threats requires agility and effective communication. Explore configurable tools for robust situational awareness, rapid impact analysis, deploying resources, and communicating with the public.

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Case study

Using business technology to protect biodiversity

Saudi Aramco uses ArcGIS to compile and analyze data and create interactive maps to guide all business activities—including conservation planning.

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Esri Blog

Tackling methane emissions with maps

GIS provides the contextual awareness to analyze the complex problem of methane emissions from natural and human-made sources.

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WhereNext

Tracking progress toward net-zero emissions

As pressure builds for companies to enact net-zero plans for carbon emissions, a visual and predictive technology arrives to aid those efforts.

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Esri & The Science of Where Podcast

A path to business resilience amid climate change

Stephen Bourne, project director at Atkins, shares the power of simulating climate change events to improve predictive models and guide decisions.

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Stories about climate change

Leaders rely on climate risk analytics

Business and government leaders use GIS to better understand the impacts of climate change and how to address them.

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User Story

Creating a common operating picture

To create a globally efficient response system, Oil Spill Response Limited found areas for improvement across processes, workflows, and systems.

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ArcGIS Mission

This all-inclusive command and control software streamlines operations and provides tactical situational awareness of an operating environment.

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Natural Resources

Digitally transform natural resources management for greater sustainability. Use advanced spatial analytics to uncover trends, improve understanding, and inform decision-making.

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Health and Human Services

Health and human services professionals are gaining insights from location intelligence. Spatial data and GIS can underscore the opportunities to improve workflows and the ability to plan for and mitigate the impacts of unforeseen events.

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