Application of GIS and Modelling Tools in the Environmental Management of E&P Activities: The ENGIS Project

By

 M. Astorri¹, C. Zoccatelli¹, R. Fava¹

(1) ENI SpA-Agip Division, S. Donato Milanese (Milan), Italy

 The management of the environmental protection in oil exploration and production operations deals with a whole range of activities which are all site or asset geographically related. The range of these activities include, but not limited to, environmental impact assessments, environmental engineering, atmospheric emissions, modelling and forecasts of geodynamic phenomena, environmental geology, biodiversity, acoustic wave and vibration-induced pollution, meteorology and oceanography, site remediation activities, audit and risk assessment, hydrocarbon spills preparedness, HSE management systems, research and development projects and all these activities The ENGIS (Environmental Geographic Information System) project is designed to use and apply the GIS tools as integrated information system to support environmental operational, management and field activities in E&P operations representing and quering the above data on asset and geographic basis. The result of the project will be the development a pilot case to be used as a reference to enhance and support the management of the environmental data and activities at headquarter level in the overseas subsidiaries.