Gas pipeline maps for pipeline safety

Pipeline safety and risk management are two notionshelper in the determining of risk management
gas pipeline maps regularly deal with. Thefeatures and of potential responses/solutions to such
environmental issues, the cost-effective matters offactors, GIS technology and geodatabases are
pipeline management, the influence on human andregularly appropriated by the correct systematization
fauna activities, all these are matters at the core ofof a gas pipeline map in order to outline the reciprocal
which lies the need for a secure and productivespatial dependence of the items represented.
system of pipelines.Moreover, the same technologies can be used not
Any gas pipeline map will include elements ofonly to diagnose certain circumstances, but also to
geography. This is why GIS is a technology manyrender a final, detailed analysis, including the
pipeline industry developers or investors are assistedcorresponding conclusions and potential
by. The accurate establishment of the coordinates ofrecommendations for the solving of acute issues.
a gas pipeline map or of an entire system of gasIf we consider once again NGPL and their insistent,
pipeline maps is a must. Owing to such coordinates,exigent Chicago customers, gas pipeline maps make
we are able to examine, provide details about andthe key element in the maintenance and risk
thus moderate and even diminish potential risks thatpreventing of highly solicited pipeline systems
may be brought by the negligence of the mutual(consider that the top day deliverability of NGPL will
impact of pipeline structures and their surroundinggo up to 5.7 Bcf/day). However, how do map
areas.creators handle map specificity more precisely?
With the adequate organization of gas pipeline maps,The answer to this question will bring us again to the
the probability of overlooking such a mutual influenceadvantages of GIS. Any gas pipeline map which
is markedly lowered. The advantages a well-designedemploys GIS technology may "benefit" from one
gas pipeline map will generate are valuable both forparticular feature of GIS: the possibility to generate
the smaller and for the larger gas pipeline operators.two- and three-dimensional descriptions of land and
Risk management becomes an acute issue when itatmosphere items. Of course, this two- and
comes to operators dealing with thousands of milesthree-dimensional description is possible after having
of pipeline. In other words, a gas pipeline map maysampled the corresponding areas (i.e. the pipeline
be identified as a tool fit for providing the equilibriumareas of interest). Due to this alternative of
needed by the terms of a lucrative business, ofrepresentation, the investigations made are obviously
secure facility operations, of increasing customermore profound, more complex, which will bear a
requirements, and of safe environmentalsignificant impact on the final solutions to potential
management.problems.
All of the data necessary for the accurateIn the end, with the help of GIS, the data on gas
assessment of each gas pipeline map coordinate arepipeline maps can be better integrated and more
gathered in geodatabases which will later on belucratively captured/processed. This means that the
employed in the designing - as clear-cut and specificobjects on the map are positively identified, land
as possible - of the complex gas pipeline maps. Weboundaries are geographically defined (this means
think that it is only commonsensical that a largethat your map system will "know" to render a
pipeline operator such as NGPL should expectdistinction between highlands and river shores
specificity from the series of gas pipeline maps thedevelopment) and the relationships between map
staff there uses in order to render sure the properitems are spatially circumscribed. Owing to all these
functioning of an operation including entire networksfeatures, risk management is augmented and pipeline
of pipelines over a distance of almost 10,000 miles.safety is improved.
Subsequently, since specificity is the number one