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Anadarko Petroleum Corp

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The evolution of our corporate GIS started with a competitor activity monitor (CAS). It has grown to include other core areas such as petroleum leasing and prospect inventory maintenance.

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Business Problem

Initially we wanted to use commercially available data to discern where our competitors were exploring for oil and gas. Using an SDE database and ArcView 3.x, we crafted a system that simplified data visualization by providing the end users with predefined views of core areas and a set of data layers high lighting recent industry activity. This data is updated regularly by our vendors and maintained by a data management team. We further simplified use by providing a classified list of SDE themes and a simple one button plotting solution.
The initial system was rapidly accepted and interest grew outside of the targeted exploration staff. Users in engineering, marketing, environmental, regulatory and leasing departments asked for additional layers and capability. We have integrated information from proprietary and third party systems. Some examples:
Exploration supervisors and drilling engineers can now point to a well and bring up the latest daily drilling report from a third party drilling database.
Exploration staff can rapidly update their prospect inventory and available drill sites through an interface with our proprietary well planning tool.
Our latest effort, a collaboration with LandWorks, has enabled our users to display an up to date depiction of lease status in our core areas. Further, land personnel can use the system to analyze lease characteristics to better manage the lease inventory.
We are also studying these application to see which would fit an ArcIMS based EIS.

Technology Implemented

SDE, ArcView 3.2, ArcInfo 8, ArcIMS, UNIX servers, PC clients, Oracle, Java

Development Team Biography

Ken Nadolny, Robert Kline, John Jacobs, Richard Prucha, Dan Gabbard, Kevin Sulley, John Northcott, Ellen Hoveland, Steven Cox, Peter Moreau, Gary Steinle