Eagle Industry News and Events

The 2012 Esri Electric and Gas GIS Conference will be held October 7–10 at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. This event connects you with your fellow electric and gas GIS users to share tips and ideas and learn new applications of GIS.

The Esri Southwest User Conference will be held September 17–19, 2012, at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado. This conference will help you get the information you need that will extend your organization's GIS investment.

A new federal interactive online mapping tool used by emergency responders during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has been expanded to include the Arctic, and will help address numerous challenges in the Arctic posed by increasing ship traffic and proposed energy development.

Risk Reduction for Plays and Prospects using Quantitative Show, Seal and Migration Analysis with GIS and Petroleum Systems Modeling Software is the subject of a short course taught at AAPG’s Summer Education Conference in Fort Worth. The course, which will be held on June 20, emphasizes using all your tools (seismic, logs, cuttings, fluid inclusions, etc.) to evaluate dry holes, your drilling well or fields to look for the next successful location. The instructor, John Dolson, is a professor at the University of Miami.

A article in Pipeline & Gas Journal outlines how risk identification and assessment are essential for effective pipeline safety and integrity management. Using risk and/or likelihood of failure evaluation, pipelines are prioritized for physical assessment and for implementation of preventive and mitigative measures. From a facility operations perspective, risk quantification can provide important information for effectively allocating limited resources.

Discover ways geographic technology is used by oil, gas, and energy industries around the world to meet the energy challenges of a changing world at the Esri Petroleum GIS Conference in Houston, Texas, on April 30–May 2, 2012.

The E&P Technology Summit 2011 is taking place this September 27th -28th at the Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center, Houston. Now in its 4th year, the summit annually attracts senior level industry professionals from across the Americas.

Join us for the 20th Annual GIS for Oil & Gas Pipeline Conference on  October 24-26, 2011, at the Marriott Westchase Hotel in Houston, Texas. This conference will provide participants a unique opportunity to benefit from the hard won experience of geospatial professionals at leading oil and gas pipeline industry organizations.

The following article was written by By J. Tracy Thorleifson, Eagle Information Mapping, Inc. and published in the The Pipeline & Gas Journal.

On April 18 at the National Pipeline Safety Forum, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairman Debbie Hersman posed the following question to a panel of industry representatives:

The 5th annual GeoGathering conference will be held in Broomfield, Colorado, on August 31-September 1, 2011.The GeoGathering conference provides a venue for oil and gas gathering system and production line operators to share their experiences in applying GIS technology towards data maintenance and integrity management initiatives.