Disaster Management in Oilfield using GIS & RFID
Solutions exist to cater to the various aspects of emergency response setup in an Oilfield. All these systems are dependent on the quality and availability of relevant information. However one of the most important factors in determining the relevancy, is the 4th dimension (time) of certain datasets which has not been catered for until now. GIS in collaboration with RFID technology can create 4D dataset thus make planning, mitigation, preparedness, response & recovery more efficient
Oilfields are very susceptible workplace in term of accidents, which can have devastating impacts on people, assets & environment. In 2003, China Oil Field disaster caused 243 deaths, 9,000+ injuries and 60,000 relocations.
Oil companies pay special attention in designing and planning of their facilities & operations to protect human lives and infrastructure.
GIS helps in Planning, mitigation, preparedness, response & recovery in a disaster by using accurate and timely available data. Incorporating real-time data with the existing GIS infrastructure could result into a different emergency routing/rerouting. This real-time data could be a blockage of evacuation paths due to short term maintenance activity or a planned movement of heavy machinery. Human population distribution at any specific time could incur a deviation from the predefined evacuation plan.
An integration of RFID based human & asset tracking system with GIS based emergency response system would add the 4th dimension to the data. This could make dynamic evacuation plan a reality.
This paper discusses the drivers causing GIS and RFID technology to be increasingly relevant to the Emergency Response Systems in the oilfields, gives a description of the system dynamics and its benefits, and discusses areas where improvement is expected and/or needed.
Oilfields are very susceptible workplace in term of accidents, which can have devastating impacts on people, assets & environment. In 2003, China Oil Field disaster caused 243 deaths, 9,000+ injuries and 60,000 relocations.
Oil companies pay special attention in designing and planning of their facilities & operations to protect human lives and infrastructure.
GIS helps in Planning, mitigation, preparedness, response & recovery in a disaster by using accurate and timely available data. Incorporating real-time data with the existing GIS infrastructure could result into a different emergency routing/rerouting. This real-time data could be a blockage of evacuation paths due to short term maintenance activity or a planned movement of heavy machinery. Human population distribution at any specific time could incur a deviation from the predefined evacuation plan.
An integration of RFID based human & asset tracking system with GIS based emergency response system would add the 4th dimension to the data. This could make dynamic evacuation plan a reality.
This paper discusses the drivers causing GIS and RFID technology to be increasingly relevant to the Emergency Response Systems in the oilfields, gives a description of the system dynamics and its benefits, and discusses areas where improvement is expected and/or needed.
