GSAS Overview - Northeast Gas Association · 12 In March 2013 NGA and AGA sponsored the Flood...

GSAS Overview

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Outline

>Gas Situational Awareness System (GSAS)

─Background

─Problem Statement

─Objectives

─Functionality

─System Value

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GSAS Background and Need > Recognized Features of Natural Gas

─ An increasingly important energy

source

─ Critical operations are becoming

dependent its reliable delivery

─ Infrastructure has shown vulnerability to

large scale natural disasters with

cascading impacts

─ Operators need to access and provide

near-real time status data to/from other

critical infrastructure operators during

disasters and reduce outage times to

critical end-users

A Gas Situational Awareness System (GSAS) for natural gas infrastructure operators will assist the industry in exchanging essential status information before, during, and after disasters with other critical infrastructure operators and government agencies. The proposed system will collect, collate, and publish status information from critical infrastructure operators to provide situational awareness of outages and other important status information for assessing vulnerabilities, identifying interdependencies, and deploying restoration services.


GSAS Value/Impact Increase situational awareness and assist in decision

making related to threat identification, preparation, and

restoration based on the critical nature of the end-users

Increase the quality and integrity of the exchanged data

using automation to reduce the opportunity for human error

Reduce time required to exchange essential system data

Mobile GIS Application Displaying Status

Data for Buildings within a Natural Gas

Pipelines Impact Radius

Natural Gas Companies

Other Utilities and End Users

First Responders Government Agencies

Predict Impacts and Cascading Effects

Real-Time Restoration Status



Resource Staging Prior to Event

Improved Operational Decisions

Improved Public and Worker Safety

Improved Resource Allocation

“Make Safe” Measures

Reporting to the Public and Other Agencies

Increase Restoration Effectiveness

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In March 2013 NGA and AGA sponsored the Flood Engineering and Operations Best

Practices Workshop

The needs identified included having the abilities to:

• Track impacted customers

• Know the extent of the flooding

• Tell if it is safe to go into an area to re-light and

• Know what other utilities are doing to respond to the event

• (ex. re-lighting cannot take place if there is no electric power in an area).

In summary the need for a gas Outage Management System (GOMS) was identified.

A preliminary review by Workshop attendees concluded that there is no commercially

available GOMS, those that are in use have been “home grown”.

GOMS Background and Need

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GOMS Functionality

> Call processing logic to create geospatial gas incidents from call information

> System Interfaces to move IVR information between utility IVR systems and GOMS

> System Interfaces to GSAS data for utility specific use (predictive impact polygons, incident impact

polygons, multi-utility building restoration status)

> Customer information

> Gas distribution system network awareness

> Automation tools defining detailed restoration status

> System Interfaces to move crew dispatch to utility Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) systems

> Integration of GSAS information with existing distribution and transmission models

> Simulation tool for operator training and emergency drill response

> Tools to route crews using GSAS road feature services

> Tools and supporting symbology to define incident command locations and facilities *

* Incident command post, staging areas, base locations, camps, helibase, helispot and produce maps to support incident command

structure. (some of this will be supplied by GSAS but some locations must be created utility by utility)


Outage

Incidents

Logistics

Mobile

Damage

Assessment

Triage

Analysis

Gas Emergency

Simulation

and Training

Gas

Network

Analytical

Tools

Dispatch

Interface

(CAD)

Incident

Command

Structure

IVR

Integration

Gas OMS System

Two Puzzles that Work Together

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Outage

Incidents

Logistics

Mobile

Damage

Assessment

Triage

Analysis

Gas Emergency

Simulation

and Training

Gas

Network

Analytical

Tools

Dispatch

Interface

(CAD)

Incident

Command

Structure

IVR

Integration

Gas OMS System


Disaster

Restoration Status

(all participants)

Highway

Status

Disaster

Impact

zone(s)

GSAS Functions

of Value to OMS

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Outage

Incidents

Logistics

Mobile

Damage

Assessment

Triage

Analysis

Gas Emergency

Simulation

and Training

Gas

Network

Analytical

Tools

Dispatch

Interface

(CAD)

Incident

Command

Structure

IVR

Integration

Gas OMS System


GOMS/GSAS

Interface

Disaster

Restoration Status

(all participants)

Highway

Status

Disaster

Impact

zone(s)

GSAS Functions

of Value to OMS

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Gas OMS Predictive View with DHS Layers

Proposed

DHS GSAS

Layers

Gas OMS

Predicted Layers

(Hurricane)

Predicted wind speed

Predicted rain fall total

Predicted ice accumulation

Predicted snow accumulation

Predicted road closure (flooding)

Predicted temperature

Historic flooding

Predicted storm surge

Potential Buildings Impacted

Planned FEMA

Incident command Infrastructure Civil Division

Roadway

Gas system





Historic flooding



Planned FEMA

Incident command Infrastructure


Gas OMS Operational View

with DHS Layers

Proposed Incident

DHS GSAS

Layers

Gas OMS

Incident Layers

(Hurricane)

Current wind speed


Lodging, Meals, Fuel (Status)

Critical Infrastructure (Status)

Roads (Status)

Current temperature

Flooding

Storm surge impact area

Buildings Impacted (Status)

FEMA Incident command

Infrastructure





Historic flooding



Planned FEMA

Incident command Infrastructure

Civil Division

Gas system (Status)

Current wind speed


Lodging, Meals, Fuel (Status)

Critical Infrastructure (Status)

Roads (Status)

Current temperature

Flooding

Storm surge impact area

Buildings Impacted (Status)

FEMA Incident command

Infrastructure

Utility Incident command

Infrastructure


Gas OMS System

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