Pipeline Spatial Data Modeling and Pipeline WebGIS Digital Oil and Gas Pipeline: Research and Practice

This monograph, which is the first book focusing on "Digital Oil & Gas Pipeline", introduces the author’s long-term research and practice on this topic. It introduces the latest research on the core technologies of the Digital Oil & Gas Pipeline, such as WebGIS, GIS Web Services, pipeline supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), OLE for Process Control, networked virtual reality, and Extensible 3D. The keys to the Digital Oil & Gas Pipeline, including pipeline spatial data model, pipeline WebGIS, integrity of pipeline SCADA and pipeline GIS, pipeline networked virtual reality system, are also elaborated. The knowledge and experience delivered by this monograph will provide a useful reference for readers from the industries in Oil & Gas Storage and Transportation, pipeline automation, GIS, Virtual Reality, and related fields.

Zhenpei Li has a master degree in Mechanical Engineering, and a Ph.D degree in Control science and Engineering, both from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China. He became a lecturer at the School of Civil & Architecture, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China since 2011 after getting his Ph.D degree. He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Civil & Architecture, Southwest Petroleum University. From June 2014 to July 2016, he was a Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. He has more than ten years of experience in Oil & Gas pipeline research and application, especially in the field of pipeline data model. His research focuses on Geospatial technology and its application in Oil & Gas pipeline, Pipeline Integrity Management, pipeline spatial data modeling, pipeline leak detecting and locating, 3DGIS, WebGIS, Web3D and Networked Virtual Reality.