| | July 20178CIOReviewGIS Technology for a Competitive EdgeGIS has a played a key role in the transformation of Crestwood Midstream Partners, LP since joining the company in 2013. Crestwood, which among other services, gathers, stores, and transports natural gas, oil and other derivative products for energy producers and other pipeline operators, was formed in 2010 with an acquisition in the Barnett Shale near Fort Worth, Texas. Today, Crestwood assets span from coast to coast and are located in most active unconventional shale plays in the nation. Figure 1 - Crestwood Midstream Partners LP - Asset LocationsMidstream companies, much like their traditional pipeline cousins, used GIS in tactical applications across the new construction and asset management value chains. From environmental permitting, route analysis and for generating the ever-present map. But the value of geospatial information and the tools to visualize and analyze the data has been a game changer not only for better asset management, but for capturing new business opportunities.While the term midstream does imply the service or asset in between upstream and downstream, midstream business are greatly affected by what happens across all of those segments. Today, our system planning and strategic development teams utilize GIS tools and services to mine and visualize data to help our business determine where we should be focusing our growth in; from drilling rig locations, rig count, well performance, land ownership, existing pipeline and related infrastructure, we look at all of those data points in a concise manner facilitated through GIS. Once we determine we should explore building an asset, we leverage system planning tools that interact with GIS platforms to facilitate data exchange and speed up the process to design and layout these concepts.Figure 2 - System Expansion ConceptA strong GIS technology infrastructure is enabling us to wisely select and evaluate new opportunities at a time when other Strategically Leveraging GIS and Geospatial Data for GrowthBy Hugo Guerrero, SVP, Technical Services, Crestwood Midstream Partners LP [NYSE:CEQP]IN MY OPINION
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