MAPSearch updates North American pipeline mapping database

Energy infrastructure data provider MAPSearch has announced that in the past 12 months it has added or adjusted nearly 100 000 miles of crude oil, natural gas, refined products and other commodity pipelines in their dataset. This represents approximately 10% of its 1 million mile pipeline database.

The additions and updates range from proposed and new construction to spatial adjustments of existing pipelines. Additionally, merger, acquisition, and divestiture activity combined with new project activity resulted in thousands of other updates over the past year.

The MAPSearch team focused much of its effort on accurately reflecting new midstream and pipeline infrastructure development in several of the popular unconventional resource plays, including the Eagle Ford Shale, Bakken Shale and Marcellus and Utica Shale formations.

Accurate locational intelligence

"The recent popularity of unconventional oil and gas production methods has dramatically increased demand for midstream infrastructure that can efficiently and reliably move product from the well to processing, refining or storage, to the end user," Edward Metz, MAPSearch general manager said. "With our recent updates, our customers can be confident that they have the most accurate and complete locational intelligence available on the market."

The recent mapping updates also included spatial and attribute changes to thousands of connected facilities, including: rail terminals, gas processing plants, refineries, distribution and receiving terminals, pump and compressor stations, and more.

MAPSearch

MAPSearch is one of the oldest geographic information system (GIS) data providers focused on the oil and gas and electric power industries in North America, Europe and the Middle East. Its professional research and operations team tracks the location of and critical details about energy infrastructure assets, including: gathering and transmission pipelines, processing and refining facilities, power plants, substations, transmission lines, and more.

It distributes its information in the form of raw GIS data, paper and digital maps, and their new online mapping platform, ENvision.

Edited from various sources by Hannah Priestley-Eaton

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