Abstract

Extending ISAT to an ArcSDE Event/Driven Implementation
Track: Pipeline
Author(s): William Nagel, David Ellerbeck, Andrea Carlin

In 2007, El Paso Corporation started a pilot project to migrate its legacy relational database model (ISAT) to an object-oriented feature-based model for an implementation in 2008. This migration would allow us to begin leveraging the many advantages of being in an Esri GIS environment.

The solution: El Paso Corporation's pipeline group worked innovatively with GE's Oil & Gas business to develop FME and python scripts that leveraged their legacy data model to become the core of an event-based object-oriented data model. The pipeline group established symbol sets, workflows, scale levels, etc. to handle business needs. Now El Paso Corporation can fully leverage their ISAT data to do GIS-enabled critical analysis projects while continuing to utilize their legacy systems that service other business needs.

El Paso Corporation and GE worked together to creatively find solutions to some initial limitations (like linear events spanning routes) in the methodology.

William Nagel
El Paso Corporation
1001 Louisiana
Houston , Texas 77002
United States
Phone: (713) 420-2527
E-mail: buddy.nagel@elpaso.com

David Ellerbeck
GE Oil and Gas
5700 Broadmoor
Mission , Kansas 66202
United States
Phone: (913) 981-9654
E-mail: david.ellerbeck@ge.com

Andrea Carlin
El Paso Corporation
2 N Nevada St
Colorado Springs , Colorado 80132
United States
Phone: (719) 667-7567
E-mail: Andrea.Carlin@elpaso.com