Help File for Navigating Fuels and Resources Data

Scope (10 Types of Infrastructure)

Fuels and Resources is the second of four interconnected databases (The 4 "Categories" of Energy Systems in GEO are Power Plants, Fuels and Resources, Energy Transmission and Energy Consumers). Fuels and resources category has validated scientific information on 10 "Types" of Fuels and Resources:

1. Gas Fields
2. Oil Fields
3. Coal Mines
4. Uranium Mines
5. Crude Oil Refineries
6. Solar Potential
7. Wind Potential
8. Biomass Potential
9. CO2 Storage
10. Water Resource

Index Of Features

• Scope of the Project
• Organization of Fuels and Resources Data


Below the classification by "Types", the global data for Fuels and Resources are organized by

1. Country
2. State (primary geographical division within a country)



Pages for Fuels and Resources data have 12 modules that are common to all 10 "Types" of Systems (see exceptions below)

1. Plant Identifier
2. Location
3. Description
4. Associated Infrastructure
5. Unit Information
6. Environmental Issues
7. Major Upgrades
8. Owner and Operator Information
9. Annual Performance
10. Comments
11. References
12. Notes

Solar and Wind Potential pages do not have Units Information, Owners and Operators, and Major Upgrade Modules.

Biomass Potential and CO2 Storage pages serve dual purpose. They cover both Potential and Performance.

Crude Oil Refineries have one additional Module -- Refinery Products -- that lists the different products produced as a percent of the total.

Twelve modules common to 10 Types of Fuels and Resources

Identifier

1. Name: Convention is a comma-less concatenated string with "Name of Plant, Type, Country"
2. Rating: The three fields "Status of Project, Project Efficiency, and Overall Rating" capture overall ststus
3. Country Assigned ID: This is a name or number given by the country for each Fuels and Resources Infrastructure
4. GEO Assigned ID: Non-editable ID give by GEO
5. Select Currency for data in this page: This will be the default currency for all cost fields where currency is not specified

Location

This module provides geo-location of the Infrastructure and its spatial impacts

1. Placemark: Specify Latitude and Logitude or drag default placemark to appropriate point.
2. Location Accuracy: Mark one of the 4 options
3. Drawing Polylines or Polygons: Click on icon and then draw line/polygon on Map. Terminate adding points by double clicking. Points can be edited by highlighting them (move mouse over the line) and then dragging them. Points can be added by activating shadow point in the middle
4. Why Draw Polylines: Show connections between relevant infrastructure
5. Why Draw Polygons: Mark regions to show connections or impacts -- Visible Footprint, Impact on Water or Air Quality, etc
6. Delete and Restore: You can hide/delete individual polylines or polygons OR restore all from saved (last moderated) version

Description

This module contains an overall description of the Infrastructure

1. Datafields consist of numbers, character arrays and enumerations (drop down menus)
2. Please pay attention to measurement units when entering numbers. (Enter only numbers, i.e., 20000 and not 20,000)

Associated Infrastructure (AI)

This module provides a way to cross-link individual units within and between categories. For example: to establish the network (coal mines, railway links, water resources and electric transmission grid) associated with a coal power plant please add appropriate entries to this table by following the menu. These units are then stored and cross-link the selected coal power plant, coal mines, railway links, water resources and electric transmission grid.

1. Initiate adding a link by clicking on "Add AI" button
2. Select from menu the category, type, country, state to see list of facilities already in GEO database. Clink on name of facility (if it exists in GEO) to add it as a cross-reference
3. If infrastructure is not yet in GEO database, please add name and description in input box to serve as a reference
4. All the placemarks, polylines and polygons defining the associated network are displayed on individual factsheets for these plants using an API to Google Maps

Unit Information

This module provides information on sub-units -- many oil and gas fields, mines, refineries, CO2 Storage sites have sub-units.

1. Name or Number: Name or Number used to identify the sub-unit
2. Capacity: Production capacity
3. Dates: Dates on which the infrastructure was commissioned, construction was started, or if relevant decommissioned. Format yyyy-mm-dd

Environmental Issues

This table provides a list of environmental issues

1. To add a new issue click on "Add Another Issue"
2. Category: Select the type of issue you are reporting from the menu
3. Description: Describe the issue in words. Include dates over which this issue was relevant
4. We ask users to not delete previous issues that have been resolved. Instead add "Issue Resolved [Date]" at the begining of that description.

Major Upgrades

This table provides a brief description (256 characters) of past, ongoing and planned upgrades, their cost and year.

1. To add a new upgrade entry click on "Add Another Upgrade"
2. Year: Years over which upgrade was carried out. For a plant upgraded in 2000, the duration 2000-2000 is valid.

Owner and Operator Information

This module provides space for a brief description (256 characters) of owners, operators, main EPC contractors and type of Ownership.

1. To add an additional owner click on "Add Another Owner". Then add owner name, short decription, and percent share

Annual Performance

This table provides annual performance data for the Infrastructure (enter only numbers, i.e., 20000 and not 20,000)

1. Decade: The data are arranged by decades for clarity. Select decade from drop down menu on top
2. Measurement Units: Please see definition of abbreviations and units in Notes section. If you have data in different units, send us the file and conversion factor and we will enter the data for you
3. "Plot Selected Parameters" button: will plot parameters you select versus years to facilitate comparison
4. Costs: Enter costs in currency selected in the first module - Identifier

Comments

This table provides space to capture important information/issues that the GEO form does not include.

1. To add a new comment click on "Add Another Comment"

References

This table provides References to information on that page and a brief description of their relevance.

1. To add a new upgrade click on "Add Another Reference"

Notes

This module is not editable. GEO uses it to provide caveats, clarifying notes, and abbreviations and system of measurement units used:

1. Measurement units: definition of units and their abbreviations used
2. Common information for data for a plant type or for a country