Cutting Costs and Increasing Efficiency in GIS and Surveying

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Cutting Costs and Increasing Efficiency in GIS
and Surveying

• Dan Corriell, PLS Land Survey Manager
• Matt Shetzer GIS Manager
• Petroleum Field Services

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Oil and Gas Field Services

• Well location certificates for oil and gas
• Provide surface location of well to nearest
  section lines
• Section breakdown and monumentation
• GIS mapping and asset management
• Additional documentation for permitting
• Engineering
• Regulatory Services

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Situation

• New Regulations requiring more work.
• Duplicate requests for field work
• Disconnected data across departments
• No metadata
• Only Survey can access Survey data
• No external \ remote access from field
• Confusion

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Project Requirements

• Efficient coordination for data requests
• Compile data from all departments
• Establish data standards
• Data maintenance procedures (QA/QC)
• Provide GIS data access to all
• Google Earth ( Phase 1)
• ArcServer (Phase 2)
• Mobile Handheld Units
• Training

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Data Needs

• Monuments (Survey)
• Estimated Corners (Survey)
• Control Points (Survey)
• Rebar (Survey)
• FEMA Floodplain (Regulatory Engineering)
• Wildlife data (Regulatory)
• Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
• Imagery / Topo / Streets (All)
• Client lease information (Regulatory)
• Mobile data access as well
• Man made features (GIS Survey)
• Land records (GIS and Regulatory)

Operations
Survey
GIS Data
Regulatory
Engineering
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Section Broken Down? Accurate job time
estimate Wildlife concerns? FEMA
Floodplain Access to area Estimated Corners
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Full Access to All
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Bonus - Routes and Timing
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Costs Saved / Efficiency Gained

• One trip to location
• All departments sharing data
• Accurate cost estimates
• Office time of invalid requests
• Client savings due to awareness of new
  regulations before job starts.
• Wildlife
• Floodplains

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Where do we go from here?

• Map book production
• Data exported from system geographically into CSV
  for jobs
• Offering Web access to clients

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Contact Info

• Dan Corriell Dan_at_Petro-fs.com
• Matt Shetzer Matt_at_Petro-fs.com