It’s over ten years since the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP) Geomatics Committee released the seabed survey data model (SSDM), which helped standardise the management of seabed survey data – of enormous value to offshore operators to help plan and mitigate risks associated with drilling, pipeline and other production and decommissioning operations through the identification of geo-hazard, debris, environmental, debris and seafloor features. As the energy transition continues, the offshore model becomes relevant to other sectors, such as wind farm installation and CCS ..read more

Exprodat, GIS experts for the energy sector, has released an enhanced version of its popular Unconventionals Analyst software used by oil and gas operators and investors to gain a significant competitive advantage in the onshore unconventionals petroleum sector. Unconventionals Analyst v3.1 is an extension for Esri’s powerful desktop GIS application ArcGIS Pro, that provides a host of tools for geoscientists and reservoir engineers to better manage shale oil and gas, coal bed methane and tight sand plays. Building on the functionality of previous versions, Unconventionals Analyst v3.1 includes ..read more

The 2023 Esri User Conference (UC) gets underway on July 10th and, as is traditional, Esri has now published its Q&A ahead of the conference. Here are some highlights that I think might be of interest for folk working in the Energy and Natural Resources sectors. Creating the World You Want to See The theme of this year’s UC is GIS – Creating the World You Want to See. This, says Esri, reflects the vision that GIS “can create a more sustainable, equitable, and prosperous world.” The Q&A notes that “of all the environmental challenges facing our world, climate change is perhaps the bigg ..read more

As we have just released version 3.1 of Unconventionals Analyst for ArcGIS Pro, I’d like to highlight some of my favorite new features so you can check them out when you install the new version…      1 – Creating Gun Barrel Diagrams   Our customers are always looking to increase efficiency – with that in mind the new release contains the ability to easily create a Gun Barrel diagram using the wells and surfaces in your map.   The new Create Gun Barrel Plot tool allows you to interactively draw a cross-section line across your key wells. Measuring true sp ..read more

In December 2022 the state of California held Pacific Wind, its first offshore wind leasing round. Leases were available both offshore Eureka in northern California and offshore Morro Bay in central California.     With additional challenges around implementing floating turbines (due to the water depths) and the access to a market, several questions arose that developers may want to answer:   How many turbines can be placed within the lease areas on offer?   How much revenue could be generated?   How many households could be supplied with electricity ..read more

Exprodat, the award-winning GIS experts for the energy sector and Getech Group company, was recognised as a Cornerstone Partner at the recent 2023 Esri Partner Conference (EPC) in Palm Springs, California. This acknowledgement was presented to Exprodat for its long-term commitment to Esri and the wider GIS community. Cornerstone Partner recognition is given to organisations that have participated in the Esri Partner Network (EPN) for 20 years and who have demonstrated a consistent focus on helping customers succeed, through the adoption of ArcGIS technology. Exprodat provides GIS expertise to ..read more

Have you ever experienced odd behavior in your maps? Layers that should be visible not displaying correctly at certain zoom levels? Other layers appearing when they shouldn’t be visible?   Here we see a map of the Shetland areas where the Basemap and Field layers are switched off in the Table of Contents, but still appear on the map.      Zooming out one level, the layers appear as expected – i.e. no Basemap or Fields on the map.      This may be a result of the ArcGIS Pro Feature Cache.   Here’s how Esri describes the cache:  ArcGIS Pro ..read more

The North Sea Transition Authority are the UK’s oil, gas and carbon storage regulator, tasked with driving the energy transition in the North Sea. Embedding digitalisation and making data open and available is one initiative to drive this. As part of this, the Energy Act 2016 requires each UKCS operator to appoint a named Information and Samples Coordinator (ISC), who is responsible for reporting petroleum-related information to NSTA. Section 34 of this act requires pipeline and infrastructure data to be reported. Essentially, this is ‘the kit’ which sits on the seabed, undersea and at surface ..read more

We have recently released the ArcGIS Pro 3.x compatible version of our Unconventionals Analyst software, which enables you to simplify complex well pattern design projects and quickly calculate spacing statistics in ArcGIS Pro. In celebration of this news, we have added to our short video series that demonstrates how easy it is to plan wells or analyze their spacing in ArcGIS Pro. You can view all the videos using the links below: How to create well sticks for modelling unconventional wells in ArcGIS Pro How to analyze parent/child relationships between unconventional wells in ArcG ..read more

The 2022 Esri User Conference (UC) gets underway on July 11th and I’m sure we’re all delighted to see the event return to the San Diego Convention Center for the first time since the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic. Ahead of the conference each year, Esri publishes its UC Q&A – to save you a little time, here are some highlights that I think might be relevant for colleagues across the Energy and Natural Resources sectors that we work with here at Exprodat and Getech. Mapping Common Ground The theme of this year’s UC, GIS – Mapping Common Ground, focusses the conference on “the central p ..read more