Introduction
The programme “Digital Exploration Techniques Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)” develops professional practice in Oil and Gas. It connects the subject with workplace challenges by examining existing evidence and practices and choosing methods appropriate to the organization and its available resources.
The learning progresses from spatial analysis and geographic information systems to maintenance planning, work orders, and execution measurement, with practical work on municipal service development and city management, the oil and gas value chain and operations, process safety, barriers, and management of change. Participants prepare outputs to support workplace application and review the quality and results of implementation.
Learning objectives
- Prepare a spatial analysis connecting data quality to a specific service or planning question in an application related to “Digital Exploration Techniques Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)”.
- Design a municipal service improvement connecting spatial planning, operations, and beneficiary experience.
- Analyze an oil and gas value chain process and connect performance to reliability and safety.
- Analyze an operational hazard scenario and review barriers and change control responsibilities.
- Build a maintenance plan and work order connecting asset criticality, resources, and documentation.
Learning areas
1. Spatial Analysis and Geographic Information Systems
- Define the spatial question, unit of analysis, geographical boundaries, and beneficiary groups, and select data that serves the required decision.
- Organize layers, coordinates, metadata, and update sources, checking spatial accuracy, coverage, and consistency across files.
- Select appropriate join, proximity, coverage, or classification operations, document assumptions, and avoid interpreting the map beyond the limits of data quality.
- Design a map with a clear scale, symbols, legend, source, and date, considering privacy and permissions for publishing sensitive locations.
- Present a planning or service allocation scenario using the results, identifying additional data and an update plan before approving the decision. The application examines a case related to “Digital Exploration Techniques Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)”.
2. Municipal Service Development and City Management
- Analyze municipal responsibilities, stakeholders, services, and local assets, and identify a measurable need within a clearly defined geographical area.
- Map a licensing or field service journey, review requirements and interagency handovers, and identify duplication, delays, and unclear responsibilities.
- Use spatial and operational data to prioritize work, checking update accuracy, boundaries, and the privacy of resident and establishment data.
- Design a municipal intervention connecting resources, contracts, operations, and community participation, and define acceptance and service quality criteria.
- Prepare indicators for coverage, responsiveness, cost, and beneficiary satisfaction, and a plan for piloting the intervention and reviewing its effects before expansion.
3. The Oil and Gas Value Chain and Operations
- Understand the links between exploration, development, production, processing, and transportation, and define process boundaries, participants, and intended outputs.
- Read a training process diagram, identifying material and energy flows, measurement points, critical equipment, and their relationship to product quality.
- Analyze production, downtime, losses, and resource consumption data, distinguishing measurement problems from process or equipment problems.
- Define coordination requirements among operations, maintenance, safety, and contractors, and document handovers and changes under facility procedures.
- Prepare a process improvement proposal covering hypotheses, controls, resources, and review criteria, using a training case without unauthorized field operations.
4. Process Safety, Barriers, and Management of Change
- Identify sources of hazardous materials and energy and process boundaries, distinguishing process safety from individual occupational safety in the case presented.
- Analyze the sequence, causes, and consequences of a hazardous event, and identify preventive and mitigating barriers and evidence for verifying their readiness.
- Review work permits, isolation, and coordination among parties under facility procedures, and identify hold points requiring specialist approval.
- Prepare a change request identifying its rationale, risks, and effects on documents, training, and emergencies, with technical review before implementation.
- Conduct a tabletop exercise involving a hypothetical barrier failure or leak, and document escalation and response actions, lessons, and the subsequent verification plan.
5. Maintenance Planning, Work Orders, and Execution Measurement
- Inventory assets and build a hierarchy, coding system, technical data, and maintenance history, classifying criticality by safety, service, and cost.
- Select a mix of preventive, condition-based, and corrective maintenance, connecting the decision to failure modes, data, and manufacturer instructions.
- Plan the work order's scope, resources, materials, time, isolation, and permits, and define readiness conditions before scheduling.
- Organize schedules, shutdowns, and equipment handovers between operations and maintenance, recording actual work, causes, parts, and time.
- Analyze backlog, recurrence, plan compliance, and reliability, and propose documented adjustments to maintenance tasks and their frequency.
Practical outputs
- A thematic map, data dictionary, and report on spatial analysis limitations.
- A municipal service profile, needs map, intervention plan, and monitoring indicators.
- An oil operations process map, requirements matrix, and operating indicators.
- A register of risk scenarios and barriers, and an operational change review plan.
- A maintenance plan, work schedule, work order card, and monitoring indicators.
Who should attend
- Engineers, technicians, supervisors and operations staff whose work relates to the programme subject.
- Managers and teams working in oil and gas, according to their practical responsibilities.
- Professionals responsible for applying the outputs of “Digital Exploration Techniques Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)” within their organizations.
Prerequisites
- Working familiarity with the programme field and the ability to discuss a professional case or challenge.
- Confirm the suitability of your experience and any specialist prerequisites with the Union before participation.
Conclusion
The programme “Digital Exploration Techniques Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)” brings together concepts, case review and a practical application. Participants prepare steps that can be adapted to their responsibilities and organizational resources, with an indicator to follow application and review results after returning to work.
Participation arrangements and any special requests are specified in the confirmation issued by the Union.