Ali Ahmed Al-Mohannadi, right, after receiving the award from Dr Vanessa Lawrence,
director general and chief executive of Ordnance Survey, Britain’s national mapping agency
Qatar Petroleum (QP) has won “Geospatial World Excellence Award 2012” in recognition of its implementation of a geographic information system (GIS) project at the QP refinery in Mesaieed.
QP was honoured under the category “Application of geospatial technology in oil & gas production.”
Ali Ahmed al-Mohannadi, technical services manager, QP, received the award at a formal ceremony organised as part of the Geospatial World Forum 2012, which was held recently in Amsterdam.
The theme of the event was “Geospatial technology and world economy” and attracted the participation of a large number of delegates from all over the world.
The awards primarily aim to recognise exemplary innovation and practices in the use of geospatial technologies worldwide. This year’s winners were chosen after inviting nominations from across the globe, and all the entries were then evaluated and judged by an international panel of
experts.
QP bagged the award for developing GIS-based spatial networks for utility and process systems at the QP refinery.
The GIS data collection project, which is the first of its kind in an oil and gas plant, involved a user-needs study, data mining of numerous as-built engineering records, development of data models, topographic surveys, buried services mapping, and geo database and network design, which was then
populated with data.
The intelligent spatial networks enable querying, locating and tracing of every piping/cable and associated system components outside the process units – right at the user’s desktop.
The system provides an integrated view of various systems over the backdrop of topographic base maps, aerial and/or satellite images and connects with QP’s onshore pipeline and cable networks as well as those of other government organisations on Qatar GISNet, such as Kahramaa and Ashghal.
QP was the only winner in the use of geospatial technology in oil and gas production. The awardees in other categories were from Sweden, Japan, the US, Malaysia, India, and the UK.