Corporate GIS System

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Corporate GIS System
Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada Heeswijk
The Netherlands Ellicott City, Maryland United
States
June 2004
Speaker Scott Murray
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Overview

• Overview
• Who is Enbridge Gas New Brunswick (EGNB)
• EGNB Corporate GIS System
• Demo of System
• Questions

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Who is Enbridge Gas New BrunswickEnbridge Gas
New Brunswick distributes natural gas in New
Brunswick, providing institutional, commercial,
industrial and residential customers with a
preferred energy source today and in the future.

• New Brunswick company committed to serving
  customers with the utmost concern for safety and
  the environment
• Operating as a limited partnership Enbridge Gas
  New Brunswick Inc. (an Enbridge Gas Distribution
  company) owns 63 percent 35.6 percent is owned
  by 54 individuals, institutions and businesses
  living and/or operating in New Brunswick
• Regulated by the Board of Commissioners of Public
  Utilities of New Brunswick
• Owns and operates over 300 kilometers of pipeline
  for the distribution of natural gas
• Currently services six of the largest
  municipalities in southern New Brunswick Saint
  John, Moncton, Fredericton, Oromocto, Dieppe and
  St. George
• Plans to service up to 25 communities (subject to
  the expansion of the MNP system to the northeast
  and northwest)
• Entered into a renewable 20-year natural gas
  distribution General Franchise Agreement with the
  Province of New Brunswick in 1999

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MNP Pipelines (Transmission Line Distribution)
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Natural Gas Producer to CustomerDistribution
Flow Chart
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OverviewEGNB GIS System

• Objectives
• EGNB met with Caris in December 2003
• Two-fold custom application to be built in a very
  tight time frame
• Marketing Analysis Application (end of Febuary)
• Spatial Fusion
• Web Site Application
• Operations Electronic Mapping and Interface
  System (April 2003)
• Spatial Fusion Laptop Application

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Development and Implementation EGNB GIS System

• Contract signed in January 2003
• Data sources sought out and acquired in January
• Fusion Server brought online in late January
• Testing began in February
• Marketing Dept. begins use in 2nd week of
  February
• Operations Dept. development runs through March
  to May
• Testing began in May
• Operations Dept. deployment in early June.

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Data Sources
Fusion Server

• Property Information
• Assessment Information
• Ortho Photos

• Demographic Information
• Census Information

• Customers Data (Great Plains Database)
• Pipelines (Microstation / DXF format)
• Street Service Records
• AsBuilt Drawings

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