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WORLD GAS MAP
WEB APPLICATION USER GUIDE
2020 edition

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WELCOME CONTENTS ATTRIBUTE DATA

3 Application layout 13 Attributes tables
Welcome to the Petroleum Economist Web
Application User Guide. Choose a topic from the right
MAP CONTROLS MAP
to find answers, get step-by-step instructions, and
make the most from the application. 4 Zoom control 14 Using the map
4 Home
The Petroleum Economist Interactive World Gas Map TECHNICAL
4 Movement
has been created utilising technology from the Energy
Web Atlas platform. The ESRI ArcMap software allows 4 Search function 15 Supported browsers
users to zoom from global overview to country-level 4 Scale bar
detail, access project data, including status and CONTACT
4 Map coordinates
ownership, filter the map view to create tailored
maps and capture images for use in presentations 5 Overview map 16 Useful contacts
and reports.
STATISTICS
About Energy Web Atlas (EWA)
6 World Statistics
EWA is a comprehensive, ESRI-based GIS platform,
which visualizes energy data from the upstream,
midstream and downstream sectors of the ADD DATA
international oil and gas industry. Developed by Gulf 7 Import your own data
Energy Information, the EWA draws on the data and
experience of the industry’s leading trade journals
— Hydrocarbon Processing, Petroleum Economist, WIDGETS
Pipeline & Gas Journal and World Oil — to give users 8 Legend
the data they need to run their business. 8 Layer control

The application has multiple mapping functions, 9 Basemaps

widgets and filters which are all explained in this user 9 Measurement
guide 10 Printing
10 Calendar
11 Featured Area
11 Information Summary
12 Information

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APPLICATION INTERFACE

Below is the general interface of the application

Home and
My Location Information summary
(see page 4) (see page 11)
Zoom control Search function
Featured areas
(see page 4) (see page 4)
(see page 11)

Statistics
(see page 6)
Map Widgets
(see pages 8 - 12)

More Map Widgets

Layer list Map
Measurement (see page 14)
Print
Add Data
Key gas industry events
(see pages 8 - 12)

Scale bar
(see page 4)

Coordinates Attributes
(see page 4) table tab Overview map
(see page 13) (see page 5)

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MAP CONTROLS

Zoom control 

Search function
To zoom in and out of the map you can click the The search function can be used to locate specific
plus (+) button to zoom in or click the minus (-)  geographic places or search for specific LNG
button to zoom out of the map projects. The search function will auto-fill so if you

only know part of a place or project name.
Alternatively if you have an mouse with a wheel you  By clicking the arrow you can search all, projects or
can roll the mouse wheel forward to zoom in or roll global
the mouse wheel backwards to zoom out

Scale bar
 The Scale-bar displays a scale-bar on the map. The
Home button
The Home Button zooms the map to the initial map widget respects various coordinate systems and
extent. displays units in English or metric values. The scale-
bar takes into account projection distortion and
dynamically adjusts.

Alternatively see Measurement widget (page 9)

Movement Coordinates

To move around the map click and hold down using The coordinates are shown in decimal degrees.
the right mouse button, then drag the map in the Longitude is the first number and Latitude is the
direction required. Release to stop. second number.
Moving the mouse around the map environment
you will see the degrees changing.

 If you require a specific coordinate click the cross-

hair

Cross-hair

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MAP CONTROLS

Overview map control

The Overview Map widget displays the current
extent of the map within the context of a larger area
and updates whenever the map extent changes.
The current extent of the map is represented in
the overview map as a grey rectangle that can be
dragged to modify the extent of the current view.
You can expand or fold the widget. When the widget
is expanded, you can also maximize or minimize it.

Open / close

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STATISTICS

World Statistics

Statitics button Petroleum Economist has incorporated valuable industry Natural Gas and LNG statistics.
Use this button to turn the Statistics tab on and off. Utilising information from Energy Information Administration (EIA) and Cedigaz,
By default the filters tab is switched off when the Petroleum Economist has produced some graphs and tables on the following:
application loads
Primary matural gas demand by region (bn cm)
World Gas Production (bn cf)
World Gas Consumption (bn cf)
LNG Trade movements

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ADD DATA

Import your own data

Add data button

Use this button to turn the Add Data tab on and To add your own data to the application is easy. You link to an
off. By default the tab is switched off when the online web service or import a file from your local server or
application loads computer.

To add a layer via a web service they will need be in the following
formats:
ArcGIS Server Web Service
WMS OGC Web Service
KML file
GeoRSS file
CSV file

Simply add the URL and click on the ‘ADD’ button. Your data will
instanty display on the map.

To add a file these need to be in the folowing formats:

Shapefile (.zip, ZIP archive containing all shapefiles)
CSV file (.csv, with address or latitude, longitude and comma,
semi-colon or tab-delimited)
GPX file(.gpx, GPS Exchange Format)
GeoJSON file (.geo.json or .geojson)
A Maximum of 5,000 features is allowed

Simply drop or browse for the file. Your data will instantly display on
the map.

If you require to remove the layer click in the layers at the bottom
of the box and select the bin symbol to remove

Use the layers widget (page 8) to rearrange the order of

the imported layers

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MAP WIDGETS

Legend Layers

Legend widget Layer list widget

The Legend widget displays labels and symbols The Layer List widget provides a list of operational
for layers in the map. The Legend widget is set to layers and their symbols, and allows you to turn
automatically update when the visibility of a layer or individual layers on and off. Each layer in the list
sub-layer changes. When no operational layers are has a check box that allows you to easily control its
rendered in the map, the Legend widget is blank. visibility. Layers having expansion arrows indicate
that they contain sub-layers or subtypes.

You can alter certain characteristics of the layer by

clicking the three dots on the right-hand column.
Zoom to a layer, alter the tranparency, or move the
layer up or down the layer list.

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MAP WIDGETS

Basemaps Measurement

Basemap Gallery widget Measurement widget

The Basemap Gallery widget presents a gallery of The Measurement widget allows the user to measure the area of a polygon,
basemaps and allows you to select one from the length of a line, or find the coordinates of a point.
gallery as your application’s basemap.
Click the point measurement icon: Point measurement icon and click a point
on the map. The Measurement widget displays the coordinates for the point in
Degrees (decimal). You may change the coordinate display format to degrees/
minutes/seconds by changing the Degrees drop-down to DMS.

Click the polyline measurement icon: Polyline measurement icon and draw a
polyline on the map by clicking two or more points. Double-click to finish drawing
the polyline. The Measurement widget displays the total length of the polyline,
using the defined Default Length Unit. To change the length unit, select the
applicable unit of measure from the Miles drop-down menu.

Click the polygon measurement icon: Polygon measurement icon and draw
a polygon on the map by clicking three or more points. Double-click to finish
drawing the polygon. The Measurement widget displays the total area of the
polygon, using the defined Default Area Unit. To change the area unit, select the
applicable unit of measure from the Acres drop-down menu.

polyline point measurement

measurement icon
icon

polygon
measurement
icon

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MAP WIDGETS

Printing Significant industry milestones

Print widget Calendar widget

Select this button to print your map. Select from the Select this button to view a compendium of
printer variables. EWA has predefined the Layout significant industry milestones throughout the year.
options. Formats available include EPS, GIF, JPG,
PDF, PNG and SVG. Customise the map scale/
extent, Layout meta-data and Print quality.

The printed maps can be used for internal company

reports and presentations

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MAP WIDGETS

Featured Area Information Summary

Featured area widget Information summary widget

The Featured area widget stores a collection of This widget allows you to provide a count of
map view extents displayed in the application. features in the current map extent for each layer
It also allows you to create and add your spatial specified. Each layer in the widget panel can be
bookmarks through configuration or at run time expanded to show a list of features in the current
after the application starts. In addition, if there are extent, optionally grouped by a specified field. Point
any existing bookmarks defined for the web map layers in the widget can be configured to display as
used in the application, they are used automatically. clusters.

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MAP WIDGETS

Information

Information widget
This widget offers general background information
to the application including map definitions,
sources, acknowledgements, disclaimer and more.

About Chevron
This widget offers general background information
on Chevron

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ATTRIBUTES TABLE

The Attribute Table widget displays a tabular view of operational layers’ attributes. It displays at the bottom of your web application and can be opened,
resized, or closed. When more than one layer’s attributes display, multiple tabs automatically generate in the attribute panel allowing you to switch among the
attribute tables. You can use the widget’s configuration window to specify which layer or layers are included in the tabular view, which fields show, and if the
tabular view can be exported.

Create custom filters

and queries of the Show/Hide columns
attribute table

Show/Hide columns

Double click record

Highlights and zooms
to in the application

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USING THE MAP

The elements of the map have detailed attribute data associated with them. Three types of mapping element are available in this application. Point elements
(LNG projects), Line elements (gas pipelines) and Polygon elements (Condensate, Gas and Oil/Gas fields). Each of these elements can be interacted with and
selected using the mouse pointer. When selected a Pop-up box will open with the attribute data. You can use the Pop-up box tools to Zoom to, Pan to, Add a
Marker or View in the Attribute Table

Point elements

To view additional
Polygon elements
records click the white
arrow button
Pop-up box
Line elements Includes all attribute
information

View in the Attribute

Table function.
Zoom to Open the main
function attribute table

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TECHNICAL

Supported browsers

The Petroleum Economist application supports most website ArcGIS Enterprise – Portal for ArcGIS Release version 10.7.1 has
browsers on multiple operating systems. The following are been used in the development of this application.
supported by the application:

• Chrome ™ ™
• Firefox
• Safari 3 and later
• Edge
• Internet Explorer 11 Hosted on the Energy Web Atlas (EWA) platform. For more
• iOS Safari information on EWA visit https://energywebatlas.com
• Chrome for Android

If you are experiencing technical issues with any part of the

application or have general inquiries please contact a member of
the Petroleum Economist team
(see contacts page 21)

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CONTACTS

If you are experiencing technical difficulties or have questions about the

mapping application, please contact us for assistance.

General enquiries
[email protected]

Kevin Fuller
Manager - Cartographic Services
[email protected]
+44 20 3409 2248

Peregrine Bush
Senior Cartographic Editior
[email protected]
+44 20 3409 2249

If you would like to enquire about commercial opportunities with relation to

Petroleum Economist interactive web map applications, please contact:

Owen Raw-Rees
Commercial Director
[email protected]
+44 20 3409 224
+44 7752 097422 (Mobile)

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