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Sanborn products and services enable improved land management, efficient asset management and alignment of information for oil & gas industry companies. Our geospatial solutions are optimized to empower confidence to cost-effectively manage key assets and infrastructure with mapping and visualization services designed to support best practices for all aspects of oil & gas infrastructure management.

Sanborn products and services elevate your decision-making effectiveness throughout your entire operations workflow. Essential tasks, like designing access roads, planning optimal pipeline routes, complying with complex environmental regulations and a host of other key responsibilities become easier to visualize, plan for, and manage when you partner with Sanborn.

ACCURATE & INTUITIVE DATABASE DESIGN – FULLY CUSTOMIZED OIL & GAS INFRASTRUCTURE MAP CLASSIFICATION

Planimetric maps are essential to support planning and decision-making across the entire life cycle of oil & gas operations, including exploration, infrastructure management, environmental planning and spatial analysis requirements. Advanced Sanborn feature extraction methodologies ensure fully customizable maps featuring layers that can be grouped and classified to optimally display data for analysis and viewing. Extracted features also are used to populate easily referenced geo-coded databases in tabular formats. The map image and simplified database below demonstrate just a few of the basic feature classifications that can be extracted from oil & gas infrastructure maps.

Sample Oil & Gas Map

SANBORN ASSET DATABASE FEATURES:

  • Enhanced editing and QC functions
  • True polygon topology
  • Programming functions
  • Optional attribution
  • Attribute name, type, suffix, location data
  • Customizable attribution for oil & gas infrastructure, such as: Pipelines, junctions, valves, well-heads, pumps, storage tanks, emergency infrastructure, refinery infrastructure, roads, buildings, structures, environmental protection features, utility poles, communication towers, etc.
  • Hydro centerlines are hand-placed through bodies of water for improved aesthetic appearance

PRECISE FEATURE EXTRACTION ENABLES SUPERIOR MAP DETAILS FOR OIL & GAS INFRASTRUCTURE

Sanborn combines proprietary processing techniques, photogrammetric compilation and GIS-based mapping methodologies to extract features from high-resolution aerial imagery. The resulting planimetric data are used to create highly detailed georeferenced maps that accurately portray the horizontal position of features on the Earth’s surface. Commonly mapped oil & gas features include:

  • Emergency Mgmt. Facilities
  • Manifolds
  • Regulators
  • Valves
  • Flare Stacks
  • Pipelines
  • Pipeline Junctions
    • Storage Tanks
    • Terminals
    • Wells
    • Pumping Rigs
    • Generators
    • Power Stations
    • Environmentally Regulated Areas
      • Fuel Stations
      • Roads
      • Buildings
      • Maintenance Facilities
      • Port / Shipping Infrastructure

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