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PSImplementation of GIS Technology from the Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center (RMOTC), Casper, Wyoming*
By
Brian J. Black1, Jeanette W. Buelt1, and Tom Anderson1
Search and Discovery Article #40309 (2008)
Posted November 13, 3008
*Adapted from poster presentation at AAPG Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas, April 20-23, 2008
1Navarro Research and Engineering, Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center, Casper, WY. ([email protected])
Abstract
The
Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center (RMOTC) operates the Teapot Dome Oilfield
near Casper, Wyoming, also known as Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 3. During the
past three years, RMOTC has been gathering and consolidating over 80 years of
oilfield data and entering that information into a modern geo-computing
environment and relational database. A major part of this process includes
implementation of a true Geographic Information System
(GIS), specifically
ArcGIS. Over the past 2 ½ years, RMOTC has upgraded its GIS capabilities to
display facilities, pipelines, well locations, roads, utility lines, remote
sensing data, and other features in real-world spatial coordinates. This is a
significant upgrade compared to past practices of
using
drafting software with
stand-alone
coordinate
systems, not spatially referenced, for creating maps of
the field and facilities. The GIS has allowed RMOTC personnel to display and
integrate a large variety of spatial data in ways that were previously not
possible. RMOTC uses ArcGIS to store and display information used in a variety
of oilfield applications such as creating basemaps of field infrastructure and
facilities, displaying well production data, incorporating geological and
geophysical interpretation, pipeline leak assessment and flow assurance,
environmental monitoring, tracking oilfield operations, etc. The data and maps
generated by ArcGIS have been greatly appreciated by RMOTC scientists and
engineers as well as RMOTC project partners. Implementation of the GIS has
helped RMOTC become the premier oilfield testing and demonstration center in the
United States.
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