IHS Energy Infrastructure and Markets Database
Comprehensive Midstream infrastructure data for market screening and project development
Energy availability, supply security and environmental implications have become a top-priority issue worldwide for producers and consumers alike. For oil and gas companies, access to infrastructure is a defining factor in determining whether increasing demand for their products can be translated into profitable production. “Stranded gas”, for example, has emerged as a sizable opportunity due the rising demand for clean fuels in developing economies such as China and India, as well as in the established US and European markets now facing declining local supplies and carbon emissions restrictions. The quest for energy supply diversity and the development of associated transport, processing and market infrastructure project must be in lock-step.
Any meaningful analysis of oil and gas infrastructure must be made in tandem with broader upstream developments, including exploration and production (E&P) activity and political risk factors. As the top provider of E&P data worldwide, IHS offers a comprehensive Midstream Energy Infrastructure and Markets Database that is fully integrated with our upstream data, GIS and analytical products.
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Database Content
The IHS Energy Infrastructure and Markets Database is available in a modular format tailored to meet critical business planning needs of various industry sectors. Modules can be integrated seamlessly to meet your specific decision support needs.
The Midstream Essentials Module provides you with key data on the location, capacity and ownership of oil and gas transportation, processing and primary market infrastructures enabling both early screening and more advanced analysis of infrastructure issues that can impact the success of your project and asset decisions.
Coverage includes:
- Transport: Pipelines, Compressor and pumping stations, Ports and FPSO’s
- Processing: Gas processing plants, LNG facilities and Refineries
- Markets: Electric power plants, Primary petrochemical facilities (olefin, methanol, ammonia and urea fertilizers), Other Large Industrials and Gas Distribution
Both facilities in operation and new projects, including current status, are captured in the database, which is updated daily.
As climate change has become a major concern to the general public and governments worldwide, greenhouse gas emissions have become a primary factor to fuel selection and new plant investment decisions for electric power and other energy intensive industries. The Global Emissions Module provides:
- CO2 emissions and allocations by year by facility
- Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI) projects details
In addition to environmental considerations, gas market stakeholders face uncertainty regarding the gas supply outlook as well as the impact of economic volatility on demand growth. Thus gas storage has become a critical link in gas chain asset management. The trend toward gas market globalisation with the expanded role of LNG also has extended the geographic sphere of influence of many storage facilities and thus their economic value. The Global Gas Storage Module includes:
- Gas storage facility details, quality specifications and tariffs
- Gas storage levels, injection and withdrawal by time period
Europe has been a leader in formulating legislation to control carbon emissions. Due to supply outages in recent years, supply security has become a key consideration, particularly to the gas and power sector. The fast pace of integration in European energy markets creates a set of challenges and opportunities in an environment where the thorough understanding of the system-wide dynamics is essential to decision-making. The European Gas & Power Module provides infrastructure data, facility emissions and gas storage details tailored to the needs for European gas and power market stakeholders.
The refining industry has experienced dramatic swings in profitability. Refinery capacity, the conversion kit needed to meet varying demand growth patterns for products such as gasoline and diesel, as well as biofuels additions, are key factors to developments. The Global Refining Module tracks investment plans by processing unit and provides an assessment of production capacity by major product for the 1987-2020 period.
The IHS Advantage
- IHS's Midstream and E&P Databases are fully integrated, so your full project analysis can easily integrate midstream links oil and gas field development profiles
- Key facilities data for oil & gas transportation, processing and primary market infrastructure are represented in a standard database structure. This allows you to query and readily identify facilities meeting specified criteria with respect to size, status, operating company, location, etc.
- Ongoing updating provides the current status and attributes for infrastructure projects and new additions.
- Using our common GIS analytical tools (EDIN-GIS or Enerdeq), you can easily create and display maps of infrastructure features alongside other E&P layers.
- Having key infrastructure data at your fingertips helps you answer questions from management and build presentations quickly and easily.
- You can leverage scarce staff resources for data analysis rather than data gathering and verification.
Midstream Data provides decision support for:
- New ventures screening – Improve accuracy and consistency of infrastructure cost estimates and market options studies.
- Field development – Reduce cycle time and increase accuracy of planning for transport, processing and marketing of oil and gas.
- Gas and power – Quickly assess the supply/ demand balance for electric power generation in a market, using plant data for generation capacity by fuel type, expansion plans, electricity demand growth, gas source options and pipeline access.
- Gas sales and distribution – Use market profiles, as defined by customer class and structural sales options, to design the most profitable gas sales or purchasing program.
- Joint venture projects – Quantify key risk factors, such as gas market growth and transport availability, to assess profitability of large-scale investments aimed at monetizing “stranded gas.”
- Strategic planning – Study infrastructure developments at the regional and sector levels to assist in market entry/exit decisions.
For more information:
View our demo and case study, providing you with an overview of the IHS Midstream database, a component of IHS's International E&P database. At the end of this presentation, you'll have the chance to request our free global LNG facilities map (while supplies last).
View Overview - 6 minutes
View Case Study (Thailand) - 10 minutes
View Combined Presentation - 16 minutes
Or alternatively, call IHS:
- Geneva, Switzerland Tel: +41.22.721.1717
- Houston, Texas Tel: +1 713.840.8282
- Singapore Tel: +65.6225.4166
- Email: sales_midstream@ihs.com