North American Pipeline Guide
Everything you need to know about natural gas pipelines
When it comes to assessing new opportunities, the more information you have, the greater your chance of making the best decisions that boost the bottom line. There is no better source for current, comprehensive information than the IHS North American Pipeline Guide.
This database provides essential attributes on hundreds of natural gas pipelines and thousands of pipeline facilities. With details such as location, ownership, type of activity, transaction and connection points, you can create a crystal clear picture of opportunities to support your important strategic decisions.
With the North American Pipeline Guide, support your organization's planning and operations in a number of ways:
- Forecast deliverability - Pinpoint the most profitable areas for new expansion and assess your existing infrastructure's ability to handle new production.
- Identify new markets - Discover the markets that individual pipelines access, and determine opportunities for direct connection or interconnection, to locate new profit sources.
- Conduct operational studies - Determine wells tied to systems, assess their flow rates and analyze expected lifespan for strategic planning and profit projections.
- Plan offshore activity - Support your offshore planning with rich data on platforms, planned structures, and oil and product lines.
- Find well connect opportunities - Know the proximity of recent regional drillings to your pipelines and your competition in reaching those wells.
- Determine system value for acquisition and divestiture decisions - Put a value on an existing or prospective system given existing throughput, new supply prospects, market opportunities and competitive position.
- Know the competition - Understand your competitors' positions in the pursuit for regional supply and new markets, as well as their transportation rates.
- Tie in IHS well and production data - This dataset smoothly integrates with IHS well and production data for unparalleled accuracy and compatibility in analysis.
The most current information available
Through an agreement with the North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB), IHS receives timely notices of pipeline activity, such as ownership changes or new construction, ensuring that the Guide offers the most up-to-date information available.
Used alone or in conjunction with IHS production, well and well permit data, the Guide contains everything you need to know for more accurate analysis:
More than 30 pipeline facility attributes:
- Pipeline name
- Facility name and type
- Data Reference Number and Grid Code
- Pipeline's Proprietary Meter Number
- Facility Description
- Flow Direction
- Section/Township/Range
- Latitude/Longitude
- ZIP Code (for accounting applications)
- State/County
- Connecting Pipeline, LDC and plant
- Pipeline Confirmation of Facility
Pipeline facilities of all types:
- Interconnects (receipt, delivery, flow-both-ways)
- Gas plants (inlets, tailgates)
- Receipt points (from wellheads, from gatherers)
- Delivery points (to LDCs, end users)
- Intraconnects
- Pool points
- Compressor stations
- Storage facilities
Essential pipeline segment statistics:
- Pipeline Name
- Line Segment Length, Diameter/Looping, Rate zone and Area name
Delivered in the format that best fits your needs:
- ESRI's ArcView®
- MapInfo®
- IHS GRID Application Modules
- ASCII
- ESRI's ArcInfo™
- Oracle®
- Dbase
- SDE
Download our North American Pipeline Guide for more details.