1. A Few of My Favorite Things:
The Magic that FME Brings to My Life
Jerrod Stutzman
GeoSpatial Business Analyst
April 8, 2013

2. About Devon
 Devon Energy Corporation is a leading
independent natural gas and oil exploration and
production company
 S&P 500, Fortune 500
 NYSE: DVN
 Headquartered in Oklahoma City

3. FME Usage at Devon
 FME Desktop
 In use since 2006
 13 licenses on FLEX License Server
 FME Server
 In use since 2008
 4 Production licenses, 2 staging/test
 Apache Tomcat servlet engine/web server
 FME Server Scheduler

4. FME Usage at Devon
 ~20 FME Desktop Users, ~ 10 power users
 FME Server jobs
 Scheduled
 20 Nightly jobs, 7 Weekly, 2 Hourly
 On Demand
 Creating separate “open access” FME Server
 FME Administrator
 Server uploads/scheduling
 Quality Control

5. FME Job Summary
 FME Desktop and Server are used directly or
indirectly by a variety of groups at Devon
 GIS, Geology/Geophysics, Land, Midstream, Field
Operations, Seismic, etc.
 Lease dissections/rollups
 Scheduled data exports and database synchronization
 Pipeline risk management
 Quality control
 “Spatializing” data

6. Complex Workbench

7. Simple Workbench
“Simple” yet very high value!

8. Developing with FME
 Many potential solutions
 Your solution will likely be different than others‟
 Both could be viable solutions but one may be
more efficient
 The following examples highlight features of FME
that can simplify a workbench, reduce run time,
or accomplish what was once impossible!

9. Pipelines “At Risk”
 All pipelines are required to be registered with
the proper agency (OneCall) to minimize
accidents
 While all measures are taken, there is still potential
for some to be missed
 FME creates a failsafe for any of these pipelines
and generates a notification email and posts the
data to be registered with the proper agency

10. Pipelines “At Risk” Process
 Intersect Pipeline with Grid
 Get Grid IDs
 Send Data to web service
POST: Grid IDs = AA001,
AB001, AB001, AB003,
AB004, AC005, etc

11. At Risk Grids Process – FME
Run time ~9 min

12. ArcSDEQuerier saves the day!
Grid layers contain tens of millions of features.
ArcSDEQuerier returns only those we are interested in.
This is the difference between a process that takes many
hours to one that takes minutes!

13. Rig Locations Update
 Vendor provides excel spreadsheet with weekly
rig locations
 Data is „spatialized‟ and written to SDE and
shapefiles
 Shapefile is used to maintain history
 Date is used as part of shape file name

14. Rig Locations Update
Run time ~1 min

15. Concatenator + Fanout option

16. SCADA Database Sync
 SCADA data is synched hourly for web mapping
 Almost all values change, but there is also
potential for wells to be added or deleted
 We can‟t simply do an UPDATE operation because
added (new) or deleted wells will be left out!
 Logic is required to determine the database
operation that should be performed: INSERT,
UPDATE, or DELETE

17. SCADA Workbench

18. ChangeDetector+ DB Op

19. Well Area Assignment
 Predefined polygons are used to group wells into
Project Areas
 Well database stores latitude and longitude
values but is not a spatial database (lat/lon are
simply number fields)
 When a new well is entered, its area needs to be
assigned
 FME writes this area back to the non-spatial
database

20. Well Area: Workbench

21. Here, Clipper >PointOnArea…
 Clipper is much faster than PointOnAreaOverlayer
and is sufficient for this task
Each point gets attributes of clipper (polygon)

22. Summary
 FME Desktop and Server save thousands of man
hours and money each year at Devon
 Risk mitigation potentially saves millions!
 There is no „wrong‟ way to create a workbench,
some just may be more efficient than others
 Using best practices and a few tips and tricks can
save a lot of time
 Organize your workbench with bookmarks and
annotations. You‟ll thank yourself a year from
now!

23. Thank You!
 Questions?
 For more information:
 Jerrod StutzmanJerrod.Stutzman@dvn.com
 Devon Energy Corporation