Regulatory Compliance for Oil & Gas

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GIS Data Subscriptions for Your Integrity Management Process

Limited Mobility Sites Commercial / Industrial Structures Recreational Sites Residential Homes and more…

Addressing Regulatory GIS Data Needs

It’s hard enough keeping track of your own pipeline assets, let alone keeping track of constant (“offline”) changes of site and structure information. Certain locations where people congregate, conduct business, receive medical or assisted care, are constantly changing. Businesses open, change, move and shutdown. In some cases, such as home-based childcare providers, they are nearly impossible to find due to no visible signage. It may be that the high consequence structure identified last year with 20 or more persons may now be under new ownership and has changed to a simple storage facility with only two employees.

How We Help Fuel Your Process

“Arming your GIS, Integrity Program and Field Personnel with this data is what Pinpoint Compliance is all about”.

Over many years of helping clients comply with damage prevention and
pipeline regulations, Sentinel USA has developed strong automated datamining capabilities. We know where to look, what to ask for, and how to migrate, categorize and normalize the data to meet integrity compliance needs. Most importantly, we have automated the process to keep your costs low and we maintain historical documentation of where the data came from and how current it is, in order to show “due diligence”.

“Comprehensive data from a wide variety of Pinpoint Compliance data sources insures proof of due diligence”.

Pinpoint Compliance GIS data is gathered, analyzed and compared from multiple public data contributors in various GIS data and formats.

• County and Municipal GIS
• Emergency 911
• Tax Assessor Offices
• Department of Health and Family Services
• Department of Revenue
• A wide variety of National, State and Local Government Agencies…

We automate the normalization to translate the different public domain data types into single and standardized formats compatible with each client’s destination model.

Core GIS Data Sets Include:

• Limited Mobility Sites

Facilities occupied by persons who are confined, have impaired mobility, or would be difficult to evacuate; hospitals, prisons, daycare facilities, schools, retirement communities or assisted living centers.

• Commercial / Industrial Structures

As per PHMSA classification codes, Buildings occupied by 20 or more people on at least 5 days a week for 10 weeks in any 12 month period

• Residential Dwellings

As per PHMSA rules - Multiple Dwellings (Pipeline PIR dependent) 20 or more residential structures that are intended for human occupancy.

• Recreational Facilities

Outside areas or open structures occupied by 20 or more people on atleast 50 days in any 12 month period

Additional Data Sets Include:

• Building Footprints
• Environmental Sensitive Data (National Parks, Biological Resources, Archaeological/Historic sites, Drinking Water Intakes,
• Natural Heritage Areas, Tribal Lands, Wildlife Areas , etc.)
• Wetlands (Reservoirs, Freshwater Marsh, Coastland Wetland, Pan, Brackish/Saline Wetland, Bog, Fen, Mire, etc.)
• Soil Datasets (Soil Type, Soil pH, etc.)
• Land Use
• Flood Plains Data
• Remote Sensing Data
• Altimetry Data (Tides, Waves, Water Activity)
• Subsurface Geological Data (Seismic, Landslide, Frost Heave, Fault Lines, Subsidence, etc.)
• Temperature and Climate Data
• Street Centerlines
• Railroads
• Waterways (River, Stream, Canal, Channel, Coastal, Creek, Ditch, Gravel Pit, Lake, Pond, etc
• Land Parcel (Heat Fuel, Property Type, Year Built, Owner Name, Number of Stories, Property Value, etc.)
• Hazardous Waste Sites

Our “Any-to-Any” approach allows us to deliver data in client-specific format(s), avoiding the time, expense, and potential errors typically associated with data conversion.

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Pinpoint Compliance Client Services & Regulatory Data Needs Assessments (RDNA)

Numerous sources and types of data form the foundation for High Consequence Area (HCA) analysis. Prior to performing the HCA identification process for our clients, the internal HCA-related data is assessed for completeness, currency, spatial accuracy, and attribute accuracy.

After successful completion of an RDNA, a data migration and conflation strategy is implemented, which includes the creation of a scalable GIS component.

Listed below are some of the key data services and elements included, along with any associated processing efforts.

• Aerial imagery acquisition for the base layer for data migration.
  
• Public domain GIS data set acquisition from Federal, State, County, and local government agencies to assist in identifying and classifying structures within the PIR buffer zones.
  
• Geospatially re-align transmission pipeline coordinates with respect to internal GPS control and acquired aerial imagery.
  
• Evaluate the attribute and spatial accuracy of the data to assign appropriate pedigree tolerance factors to account for inaccuracies and uncertainties in the data set.
  
• Apply a standard data model (PODS) to the regulatory data set such that predefined relationships and domain values can be utilized.

HCA Determination Data Sources

• Client Internal Data Assessment
  
• Geospatial: Pipeline Centerline Coordinates
• Attribute: MAOP and diameter
  
• Public Source/External
  
  • Geospatial Data Analysis
  • Aerial Imagery Acquisition
  • Federal, State, and County-level GIS Data Sets
    • Attribute - public domain data sources such as Property Appraisers and Tax Assessors provide attribute data including but not limited to: address, business type (i.e. day commercial, industrial, hospitals churches, schools, day care centers, etc), building footprints
      
    
    
• HCA Determination Process Flow

  The HCA identification process is divided into six main steps, consisting of

  • Data Acquisition and Evaluation
  • Data Migration
  • Spatial Pedigree
  • Structure Identification and Attribute Pedigree
  • HCA Determination
  • HCA Management

To learn more about our regulatory compliance offerings, please feel free to contact us and a representative will be available to help answer your questions.