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all right we're going to go ahead and get started this morning first of all I'd like to thank everybody who came out to our webinar today my name is Tara Moyers I am our business development manager in integrity EPC but today we are going to be talking about how to integrate survey and getting survey and mapping into pipeline integrity engineering procurement and construction and just this is a little overview integrity EPC we just recently launched our mapping and survey division but we're integrating it into our other four divisions our previously had so the four divisions that we have had in the past if pipeline integrity compliance and that field everything from sins of compliance to we can help with ISPs hcas anything when it cut through latest integrity or compliance for pipeline we're integrating our land survey and mapping with our data and GIS program we also can offer a new construction inspection in any local call out in de work then finally we have a mechanical integrity program which we can do everything from starting up my program from procedures to baseline and we can even handle your data as well I'm going to go ahead and introduce our two presenters today first we have nick cocina he is our director of projects in upstream and midstream he is it geologist by education but he has worked across the country in the energy sector supporting oil and gas and mining operations with over 10 years of project management experience and survey environmental permitting and engineering nick has successfully helped clients meet their goals with innovative solutions and unmatched customer service then our second presenter today will also be George creme he has are actually director of data integration George has developed a successful career in the energy sector servicing the oil and gas industry for over 13 years the experience in various roles has given him experience in survey project management multi team management GIS data management and database administration mr. preen has managed large multi-discipline teams with a high contribution to net revenue from multi-million dollar consult income all right now I'm gonna hand this over to Nick and George good morning Tara and Nick how are you guys I'm good do we have Nick there we go nick is here me all right hey buddy okay and Nick I just wanted to say welcome aboard obviously loved working with you in the past and I'm looking forward to working with you here in the future as well okay well let's get started let's dive into what we're talking about today just a quick overview for the audience and what we want to talk about today and is the why the need and what's what's driving the industry and how we got here as a company since I I came on in April of 2019 one of my visions and things I talked to Cory about was helping us not only you know Drive in technology and innovation but what are we gonna do as a company to kind of set us apart from everybody else and what we were gonna do different and how we were gonna scale that and what what what competing technologies and software we need is to do things better well obviously cost is a big factor and the need for us was our current clients asking us I'm pushing us into a direction that we haven't been able to do before until now and as really just launching out a land survey and mobile applications to help do our jobs better not only for just straight like data acquisition and data collection in the field for different things required for DoD compliance were or mechanical integrity work like classification and ACA analysis was like what else is is going to help us or hinder us from not getting our clients than their their information or getting a project so one of the things that was hindering us was our clients would ask us to do some sort of a survey or learn locate on a small job that might be in Texas or another state or something like that and one of the things that hindered us from not getting that project was the inability to scale you know like a crew crew to go down and actually do a survey and so what ended up happening was we would have to like outsource that or figure out how to do that and it would become more costly to our clients and so the need became how would we do this and how would we do a better and how can we streamline this for our clients because we are not there right we don't have an office there in their location so how can we do this remotely but have a really good affordable solution for them and so the need for looking into embedding our streamlined and automation the process doesn't workflow was there and so we looked toward technology and innovation we came up with our own data collection and data acquisition mobile application which we'll get here in just a second and then we talked about how we were gonna do this like once we got there that's great but how you know what were we gonna use that was gonna set us apart and that was going to be efficient for and costly more costly for our clients and so we started talking about real-time cloud processing and was it out there and what kind of workflows we were going to use was it gonna be embedded into a web platform and how would we display and collaborate that data to our client what software is where we're gonna use and that kind of thing so excuse me what led us into that rabbit hole was Benny now we got with our survey vendor we started talking about GIS workflows we started talking about data collection what what equipment where we're gonna use what was gonna set us apart we were already launching Quick Start programs for our clients for management and web portal design and implementation gathering survey data writing standards for our clients now how are we gonna put all this together and so we came up with these really cool process is really cool technologies and started putting them together we started putting our minds together and started brainstorming I'm like what was gonna be the best for us and out of that became one of our mobile applications which we called blue Hawk blue Hawk was about why and one of our directors here inside of integrity PC and mainly used for mechanical and DoD compliance work it allows us to basically do our online reports in the field real time that gives us more of a streamlined approach where are our inspectors and our field crews and people outside that are actually doing the inspection work and give us real-time reporting in a field we can gather GPS locations we can give our clients sub meter accuracy we can do dispatching we can have an admin portal for them we can do client branding all on an Android platform an iOS or a mobile platform we can link that to additional information and then push that out put that into our asset managers or clients asset managers where all of their departments now can see this information and we're dis housed all this information so it's in one central location clients are getting what they need they're getting of an affordable and a quick roll out a product that's something that they can use right now today let's go go check us out at .weather.gov/elko you know welcome you aboard again and just how can you start talking about some of our other services that we're going to grow in addition to our software our technology and the things we're gonna do what are we gonna do different and what are the services we're going to provide ya thanks George so really what I want to touch on is you know let's you know that we are focused in oil and gas but we're not limited to oil and gas so uh you know George and I both come from a background in oil and gas environmental mining etc so all the different energy sectors there what we really focused on just to kind of get this off the ground and you know to promote within our existing service lines are the typical upstream and midstream service offerings so to start with the upstream side you know everything that goes into the planning engineering design to get a well pad and said wells permitted with the regulating agencies so you know we can provide that that desktop location analysis so really looking at it a little bit differently and and planning it out on the front front end so you're not going to the field multiple times and then once we're out there in the field we can actually gather this data and like George was alluding to basically we're able to process that data cloud-based eliminating you know more of that manual side where you've got a text sitting down for an hour or two processing this data out we can eliminate that step still have the QA QC I you know process there and be able to serve this data back out in a quicker manner making us more efficient and more cost effective so really anything to do with that upstream side you know facilities taking any of the topos survey really just getting those oil and gas locations permitted and back through for our clients quickly so long with that obviously everything is compiled into geo database you know easier to serve up to our clients we can customize and build web portals for all of your upstream oil and gas assets so you can actually see those we can collaborate moving stuff around or you know making Changez and you know like Georgians are literally the the mobile side of that bit so George you want to move on to the midstream side so same thing goes along with the midstream so you know offering those core services you know really looking at the front-end planning and then getting into all of the preliminary survey that that's needed for the engineering design of said line get into the construction staking the as build after build you know just basically being able to serve this data that we collect back to you in the manner that you can use it efficiently effectively and in a solid price so we do use both glulookat Roger process product and our own you know custom formats we obviously customized exhibits you know any of those documents that you need to whatever specification that you're looking for the same thing goes in there hand-in-hand with the you know same thing with the upstream side is being able to basically use that data serve it to you so the GIS web portals you know just being able to get that data back to you if you have any questions on anything well I want to just piggyback on a key thing that you highlight it is customizable exhibits that we're offering right now it's we've we've embedded some of its technology by using FME so you know software solutions where we can already enhance like our blue sky you know alignment sheet generation which is fairly quickly but we can also like implement like FME solutions to automate that a little bit further so that brings a huge discount to our client exactly yeah that's the big thing I mean in my experience clients always have certain you know items that are important to them so being able to be nimble and customized to our clients needs I think really helps set us apart instead of just saying well this is the way we do it and this is the way it's always been done really looking at innovative ways to get our clients something at a solid price so exactly so yeah what I was saying there though I'm just if any if anyone on the on the webinar has any questions about our services or even you know certain projects definitely give us a call and we cannot we can help create some innovative solutions so lastly with the service offerings we do not have a regulatory department per se but we are all engaged professionals that can help you know with all of your permitting needs so if you've got you know a bunch of flow lines you need mapped out we can help actually you know submit those form 44s you know this is this slide is tailored more toward Colorado but we do have full experience with New Mexico Texas Wyoming Utah and even BLM permitting side of things so if any of those needs arise we can definitely help and then of course all the exhibits that go along with whatever different scenario you might be in for getting some of the permitting done I think I think it's a really good point we we're offering and helping out and adding support for our clients we typically will have full access for our clients if that if that's something that our audiences is looking into we can we can put all those exhibits together for you you can push out your form 44s for you if you if you have that need and that's one of one of the things that's we're doing currently for some of our customers and we're offering it-- what the additional pieces that go with that the integrity plans and the additional support that goes along with that well real quick I just wanted to talk about one of the other ways that we're innovating we've talked a little bit about you know data acquisition data collection we've talked about a little bit about how we're innovating our exhibits and what software's are we're using and that kind of thing wanted to just quickly highlight one of the web portals that we're using and helping our customers you know find ways to be more efficient in their survey data collection pieces but this also can happen for upstream and in different phases for for your needs but one of the things that we're doing right now is and it's part of our Quick Start programs is like watching what it's called orbital and orbital is web platform it's made by blue sky it's very easy to roll out and out of the boxes it comes with a lot of features what we're doing right now is using it to not only collaborate a map survey project data because I can quickly the ability to use a web portal straight from the field gives us access to data in near real time so what we can do is now that we have a good streamlined process for GIS and now that the data collectors are able to you know export geodatabases and GIS data efficiently we can now take that information and push that into our web portal we can get data analytics so if you've got field crews or we've got our people out in the field and we want to see what they're doing we want to see what they're collecting we want to see if their their data is good before even hits our client portal we can check all that analytics and see exactly what's going on and where there's collaboration and this is fully customizable for what our clients are looking for and and mostly what our clients are looking for is like you know where's my project out what's the status what percent complete am I at and then you know report that up to you know upper management or their other departments and hey here you go guys this is where the benefit for us internally is now we can have an effective tool that you know evaluating our survey data coming out of the field and now because we can validate that survey data from the field or even in the office we have a better effective way of completing or hitting our deliverables on time without error so we we some of our clients require a hundred percent full of documentation without any errors perder standard that's just not even a finsih standard that was just their standard so for us it's really really important that we make sure that our validation tools and our QA cool tools are matching up to pipe tallies and inspect your data that's coming out of the field and so we've implemented this this web portal which we can import survey files from the field or we can use from you know from the office or anywhere we have a web access and what's really cool about this it's also compatible with api's and FME so we can customize this or you know you know asset manager so if your client or our client specific manager in mind or they have like a web service we can actually export this data we can map at using FME tool certain asset managers and we can use api's to integrate with other softwares the other cool advantage here is like this also will integrate with our blue Hawk application and we can import other softwares like another validation tools like - online those are familiar with blue sky products and then those are familiar with also other GIS software is like ArcGIS we can integrate a lot of web mapping services - as well there we go that's some of our web portal design now when we get us back to Nick and have them talk about some of our other technology yeah thanks George so the big new shiny item that's out there is actually more on the aerial survey side so you know there's there's two different methods here you know utilizing a drone and also utilizing fixed-wing aircraft with you know lidar sensors connected to those so we've actually gotten proven out these processes and you know the big thing with the aerial survey is that you're collecting more data than you need at the same price and in the same time frame as you would conventionally so conventionally if you're running a 50 foot swath of topo and collecting those eyes those ground shots you would basically get you know four points within a 50 foot grid utilizing aerial survey you can actually collect up to 2,500 points within that same 50 foot swath and you're getting more data more accurate data that you can use for that front-end planning so for us we could utilize both UAV or fixed-wing aircraft depending on the size of the project so with the UAV that would be more like you have a one-off you know one mile or less of line that you want to get surveyed that that corridor or you know a a well pad a single well pad or maybe one or two within a section so the aerial or the fixed-wing you would more look at on a large-scale project so you know you're running 10 to 20 miles of pipeline and you want to collect that that corridor plus a little bit more data so that you can make those reroutes efficiently and quickly or maybe townships worth of data I've actually worked on projects up to you know 309 square miles so that's about nine townships worth of data collected and that's you know more looking at the overall planning of trying to place out all of your locations or you know all your pipeline flow line infrastructure on the front ends so George if you would head to the next slide so really the big thing that I want to highlight is just the difference between the conventional and the aerial survey methods so conventional survey will never go away there will still be needs you know highly populated areas residential you know certain restrictions for you know pertaining to the laws of where you can and can't fly a UAV but if you have a project up in an area and you know this is one of the big things that I like to highlight is like on the upstream side the old way of doing things was really like the operator would go out get an sua and then give back to the surveyor say hey go stake this so the surveyor goes out mistakes it brings the data back in and start working the plan really figuring out how this pads all gonna fit together and figure out that something's not going to work so you know maybe there is a ditch that you couldn't see on Google Earth maybe there's new power lines that went in new pipeline etc so then the operator sends the crew back out to the field go back out you you make a player and you collect more data bring it back something else doesn't work you go back out to the field and that's where you start really incurring that cost so by collecting the data and more data than you need on the front end you can actually go out to the field once then bring that in do your planning and be able to move at that project area as needed so it's a really good method to go out and collect this aerial survey when I say collect more data really like if an operator were to give us a pipeline right away you know proposed pipeline right away a proposed ad location we would then throw some sort of buffer on that that would make sense you know and collect all of the topo up-to-date aerial imagery that we can actually extract the features from because it's survey grade accurate data so we can actually make all those measurements to that to those features have all the topo make good decisions on the front end before acquire in that se way or you know landowner agreement and and go from there so that's really kind of the concept of using the aerial survey firstly conventional nice that was awesome Nick before we get ready to take some questions I wanted to just talk a little bit about our project management and reporting tools you can see this lovely little picture here we can provide these client dashboards is what we call them where you can get a lot of information this is fully customizable you can get access to your budget basically get an overview of your project health and this this can be updated you know per your frequency every week whatever you want and then the reporting out of this we give you access to this site you have visibility into your dashboard you can collaborate that send reports to whomever you want your departments again upper management whatever you want to do there review your project completion percent complete look at your scheduling again this is fully customizable and based on what your needs but this is something that you would come to expect you know from our project management and like reporting tools when working with a EPC and just wanted to say thank you guys for listening again to Nick and I talked about some of the new stuff that were we're rolling now and we look forward to hearing from you and here in the near future give us a shout if you want to hear about some of our 2020 promotional pricing thanks Nick and Jorge we're going to open up for a few minutes of questions I'm gonna have Jorge I knew everybody so once you hear that you're unmuted feel free to reach out if you have a question in a Nick or Georgia length that for you well guess here I'll start off Georgia for you hold on a second I'm trying to don't know this is working I think I'm getting there okay I think everybody's unmuted right now is there any questions out there that anybody has hi Nick can you hear me yeah you want to hit that one I had a hard time hearing that question but I think the question was regarding our ili data analysis tools is that correct that's correct yeah we actually have some pretty cool allied data analysis tools we can do data alignment we do that in ArcGIS with some of our automated tools we can do that I'll I donation or analysis from your vendor to do that data alignment we also can kick out you know half-life spreadsheets dig schedules that can line to your you know you're doing an inspection schedule and help you basically do that analysis unlike your entire system or individual pipes and that kind of thing so yeah give this if you need some more information we do have an entire presentation just on highligh data analysis I can get my myself and our DDOT engineer to give you a shout and we can talk more specifics on that that's kind of what we do in a nutshell that that will be great will be encrusting in maybe doing a session with you guys perhaps next week or the week after if you have some time we'd love to a schedule okay I think for sure oh sorry have you thought my email or I can reach out separately as well yeah Terry we have your email I'll shoot you an email after this webinar and now we can get a date set sounds great guys sorry have to jump off but but great session thank you so much anybody else have any other questions for George or Nick yes I got one last question for George we can wrap up on this since we're about at time George what challenges do you foresee with addition of the new data collection equipment and software method oh wow that's a great question Terra so right now what we're seeing is and since we use GIS workflows quite a bit we're seeing such a lot of software development in this area and because of that when we use ESRI products and because of that we are having some compatibility issues with some of our Trimble software and GIS software is not quite up to speed yet we're currently using ArcGIS Pro and then you know some of the Trimble software's implements you know still in like arcmap and that kind of thing so some of the things that were you know challenges that we're facing right now is just like the compatibility issues with with in between the software's and and so we're going back and forth using different software's but the really cool thing here now is they we're able to enhance you know our efficiencies by you know using the auto processing using like triple position and software to get even more accuracy from the data being collected out of field and so we're gaining efficiencies even though we're seeing like emerging technologies and software's and software development that kind of thing we're also on the front end of leading that that charge too so as things are progressing we're able to unfold and rapidly you know align that information to to our workloads in our processes and that kind of thing so I think the big challenge is is now just keeping up with it the data collector that we're using came out a year ago there's still some enhancements going on there the the future of that data collector is really really cool I'm hearing some great stuff coming out of our vendor it's gonna this one data collector it's gonna give us accuracies of up to sub centimeter in the future with all the GIS functionality so if you're looking for that mid grade you know data collector where we're just collecting GIS data and and we have a really good process and workflow for that then this is the answer this is the key this is how we gain efficiencies and win and then we also have that higher accuracy workflow where we need survey grade data for like boundary surveys and stuff like that we can still do that use the same softwares here that we're using that in the field and gain that efficiency in that stream awesome George thank you well we're gonna go ahead and wrap up today because we're over time already George's didn't click to the next slide for me if you have any questions or you'd like to schedule time to talk with us or one of our team members you can attach myself Tara Moyers I'm the Business Development Manager and we can set that up where we can do a one-on-one session and just see how we can help you meet your needs why just want to once again thank George and Nick for all the knowledge on this topic and yeah we hope we hope to hear from everybody thanks Tara appreciate it