Resumen del autor, extraído del trabajo. TransCanada Pipelines Limited is a leading North American energy solutions provider with 37,780 km. of natural gas pipeline, $25 Billion in assets and $12 Billion in annual revenue. TransCanada provides a safe, reliable and cost-effective pipeline facility system supported by an integrated system wide spatial data foundation and analysis tools. The integrated business solution enables quantified risk assessment for pipeline integrity investment decisions. The business solution resulted from close collaboration of pipeline integrity, geomatics and information technology teams. It includes integrated best practices, procedures and tools to deliver a pipeline facility database, a GIS web browser, pipeline risk analysis modelling, a pipeline alignment sheet generator and outage scheduling.