Abstract

Enterprise GIS Deployment Architecture for Petrobras
Track: Petroleum
Authors: Victor Almeida

Petrobras is the brazilian biggest company and the 8th. in the world, having 132 production platforms (2,575 million barrels/day), 16 refineries, 30.000km pipelines, 8.477 service stations, 291 vessels, 6 biofuel plants, 16 thermoelectric plants, among other assets. Petrobras is present in 28 countries, its reserves exceed 16 billion barrels (90% deep and ultra-deep waters), and foreseeing investments in order of US$224,7 billion up to 2015.

With specific operational structures to serve all business units, setting up an environment that supports every geographic information system is a complex task for the ITC Department. This projet's main goal is to fulfill these needs with excellence aiming flexibility, performance, and scalability.

This presentation shows the main challenges and decisions made during the deploy of an enterprise ArcGIS architecture project using state-of-the art technologies (e.g. ArcGIS 10; Oracle Spatial; .Net, Java, and Flex APIs), initially, for the systems related to HSE, R&D, and Gas.