Oil and Gas Infrastructure

WikiProject Oil and Gas infrastructure (O&G) is a project to map oil and gas fields, individual wells and rigs, pipelines, transhipment centres and refineries.

Background Information

ABB Oil and Gas Production Handbook An introduction to the oil and gas production, transport, refining and petrochemical industry.

OSM oil & gas data

Data which is in the .o5m format. A list of all the tags present in each file is available here under "osmfilter scripts for "Index of /Industry".

Nominatim search phrase suggestions

Oil refinery, oil refineries, refinery, refineries
Oil pipeline(s), Gas pipeline(s)
Oil rig, oil well
Oil terminal, tanker facility, tanker terminal

O&G Data sources

US Energy Information Administration - Analysis by country (often including maps)

shapefiles of many of the USA fields*

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The largest 1000 oil & gas fields of the world (GIS formats)

This dataset is from the AAPG Datapages Open Files Page Files from this page are "free to the public".

Oil and gas infrastructure in the Caspian Sea region 2012 (large image map)

This map is from the University of Texas library. Unless clearly marked with a copyright logo their maps "are in the public domain. No permissions are needed to copy them. You may download them and use them as you wish."

Tags currently in use for Oil and Gas Infrastructure

General / all purpose tags

Tag	Other tags	Usage	Wikipage	Oil and Gas Infrastructure category	Description from the tag's wikipage	Comment
`industrial=oil`	`landuse=industrial`		No	No		The North Dakota "Bakken" cluster of well sites have been given this tag, which accounts for 3649 uses. The oil pipeline points, pumping stations, valves etc in the eastern USA have been given this tag. Apart from that it occasionally gets used on oil infrastructure sites worldwide.
`name=*`	`landuse=industrial`	4000 + relating to O&G	Yes	No	name=* is the suggested combination tag for landuse=industrial	By scrolling through the data of closed ways tagged only with landuse=industrial, name=* it has been possible to identify 4,000 probable oil and gas infrastructure sites. This data is available to download here in various GIS formats. (file does not update)
`industrial=gas`	`landuse=industrial`		No	No		This tag has systematically been used for compressor stations, valves and points on the gas pipelines in the eastern USA. Apart from that it gets used for gas wells and other gas infrastructure sites worldwide.

Oil and gas field tags

Tag	Other tags	Usage	Wikipage	Oil and Gas Infrastructure category	Description from the tag's wikipage	Comment
`waterway=offshore_field`	`name=*`		Yes	Yes	"A center node or a closed way representing an offshore oil or gas field."	Used to map the centre points of the Brazilian offshore fields.
`industrial=hydrocarbon_field`			No	No
`man_made=oilfield`			No	No
`man_made=oil_field`		Less than 5	No	No
`man_made=gasfield`	`name=*`		No	No
`industrial=oil_field`	`landuse=industrial`		No	No
`man_made=gas_field`	`name=*`		No	No

Well tags

Tag	Other tags	Usage	Wikipage	Oil and Gas Infrastructure category	Description from the tag's wikipage	Comment
`man_made=petroleum_well`			Yes	Yes	"A boring through the Earth's surface that is designed to find and acquire petroleum oil."
`man_made=petroleum_well`	`disused=yes`	about 7,000 of the 23,000+				Almost all uses of this combination are exploratory wells in the UK, from a DECC bulk upload.
`man_made=pumping_rig`			Yes	Yes	"A tag for pumping platforms - gas, oil, etc. The rig may be on ground or water"	This tag has been used for all the Persian Gulf and Los Angeles offshore platforms which accounts for 880 of the uses. Other than that, it gets used almost entirely in Europe.
`power=generator`	`power_source=oil`	probably about 1000. View on ITO Map				Argentina. This is an out of date tagging scheme for oil powered electricity generation used in error
`industrial=wellsite`	gas		No	No		This tag has been used only on 3 dense clusters of wellsites in Colorado USA
`seamark:type=platform`	`seamark:platform:category=production`		Yes	Yes	"A term used to indicate a permanent offshore structure equipped to control the flow of oil or gas. It does not include entirely submarine structures."	An OpenSeaMap tag Used 840 times in tandem with man_made=pumping_rig in the Persian Gulf, and 115 times in tandem with man_made=offshore_platform near Brazil.
`man_made=offshore_platform`			Yes	Yes	"Offshore platforms, whether they are for production, drilling, observation, pumping, or any other purpose. This is to indicate the central position (Node) of a fixed installed platform."	This tag has been used for the Norwegian, Danish and German North Sea platforms (not the UK's, which are tagged as petroleum_well), the Brazilian & Caspian offshore platforms and a couple of other sites, including onshore in south France.
`landuse=wellsite`			Yes	Yes	no definition available	This tag has been used across only 8 sites worldwide.
`man_made=oil_well`			Yes	Yes	no definition available
`man_made=pumpjack`			No	No
`industrial=well_cluster`	`landuse=industrial`		Yes	Yes	no definition available	Used in northern Russia.
`man_made=rig`	`landuse=industrial`		No	No		Used on wells over a small area in Germany
`man_made=injection_well`			No	No		One field in south Germany.
`man_made=oil_drilling`	`landuse=allotments`		No	No		One field on Germany-France border
`landuse=well`			Yes	Yes	no definition available

Storage tags

Tag	Other tags	Usage	Wikipage	Oil and Gas Infrastructure category	Description from the tag's wikipage	Comment
`man_made=gasometer`			Yes	No	"A gas holder is a large container in which natural gas or town gas is stored near atmospheric pressure at ambient temperatures."
`man_made=storage_tank`		About 1,660 of these are tagged as being O&G related (see below)	Proposed (under way)	No	"A tank is a storage container for undifferentiated content. The most commonly noticed forms are fuel tanks in refineries or silos around farms"	The storage_tank proposal that has been underway for 4 years suggests using content=* as a second tag. However, if one discounts a Canadian bulk import of 28,500 storage_tank nodes which include content=* values, the man_made=storage_tank, content=* combination has been used by manual editors only about 1,500 times, which is a low proportion. When the substance inside a storage tank is being tagged, there seems to be confusion about what second tag to use
	`content=oil`	240	Yes	No	"This key can be added to features used to store materials to declare the contents of the feature"
	`content=gas`	90
	`content=fuel`	330
	`contents=oil`	135	No	No
	`contents=gas`	50
	`contents=fuel`	280
	`storage=oil`	460	No	No
	`storage=gas`	20	No	No
	`type=oil`	55	Yes	No	"The key type is commonly used to set a relation's type." "The type key is occasionally also used as an add-on tag for "variants" of a feature category. This approach conflicts with the use of the key for a relation's type and should be avoided (it may also create conflicts on multiple tags for the same element)."
`man_made=oil_tank`			No	No		Quite popular undocumented one-tag alternatives to *man_made=storage_tank, content= <oil \| fuel>** which avoid the content=/contents=/type=/storage= confusion.
`man_made=fuel_storage_tank`			No	No
`man_made=fuel_tank`			No	No		A little-used duplicate of man_made=fuel_storage_tank which is detailed above.
`man_made=gas_cavern`	`operator=eon Gas Storage`		No	No		Germany
`man_made=floating_storage`	`operator=*`		Yes	Yes	"Floating Storage Units and Floating Production and Storage units (known as FSO, FSPO, and similar abbreviations), whether they are for production, storage, and offloading, of petroleum products. This is to indicate the central position (Node) of a FPSO mooring. Note that the unit might circle around this position."	man_made=floating_storage has been used in tandem with the OpenSeaMap tag seamark:platform:category=fpso to map the Brazilian FPSO.
`seamark:platform:category=fpso`	`operator=*`		Yes	No	"An offshore oil/gas facility consisting of a moored tanker/barge by which the product is extracted, stored and exported."
`man_made=fuel storage_tanks`			No	No		South Africa
`man_made=fuel_deport`			No	No
`man_made=fuel_depot`		Less than 5	No	No
`industrial=oil_tank_farm`			No	No
`industrial=oil_storage`			No	No
`industrial=oil_depot`			No	No

Refinery tags

Tag	Other tags	Wikipage	Oil and Gas Infrastructure category	Comment
`industrial=refinery`	`name=*` `landuse=industrial`	No	No	This tag has been used to map the refineries in Europe The product=gas tag has been used in a few cases to highlight natural gas processing plants. All those without a product=* tag are crude oil refineries.
`industrial=refinery`	`product=gas` `name=*` `landuse=industrial`	No	No
`industrial=oil_refinery`	`landuse=industrial`	No	No

man_made=works,product=* <oil | gas> This is not in use for O&G.

Pipeline tags

Tag	Other tags	Usage	Wikipage	Oil and Gas Infrastructure category	Description from the tag's wikipage	Comment
`man_made=pipeline`	see tag page		Yes see also: PipelineExtension Proposal	No	"The pipeline key is used for major pipelines carrying liquids, gases or slurry. The pipeline may be above ground, under water or underground."	It is suggested on the man_made=pipeline wikipage only to use this tag on open ways.
`man_made=pipeline` Open ways relating to O&G only	`substance=gas`	3473
	`substance=oil`	557
	`substance=fuel`	23
	`substance=cng`	93
	`substance=gas`	3473
	`substance=sewage`	339
	`substance=hot_water`	203
	`substance=heat`	1162
	`substance=hydrocarbons`	172
	`substance=ammonia`	131
	`substance=oxygen`	25
substance=* key not used	61.000 +
type=* key used	32.000 +
`seamark:type=pipeline_submarine`	`seamark:pipeline_submarine:product=oil`		Yes	No		This OpenSeaMap tagging scheme for pipelines covers most of the offshore pipelines traced into OSM and has been mostly used in tandem with the man_made=pipeline, location=underwater scheme above.
`seamark:type=pipeline_submarine`	`seamark:pipeline_submarine:product=gas`		Yes	No

Pipeline surface feature tags

Many pipeline surface features are being tagged with the "General / all purpose tags" listed above.

Tag	Other tags	Usage	Wikipage	Oil and Gas Infrastructure category	Description from the tag's wikipage	Comment
`pipeline=marker`	see tag page		Yes	No	"A tag used for pipeline markers, be it a separate pole sticking out of the ground, or a wall marker describing the distance to a pipeline valve or other feature. Used on nodes."	Mostly Central Europe & UK.
	natural_gas \| cng \| lng>	3,950
	`type=oil`	600
	`type=fuel`	6
	type=* key not used	4,000+
`pipeline=valve`	see tag page		Yes	No	"Möglicher Schlüssel für Schieber bzw. Schieberkästen im Gelände oder als Straßeneinbauarmatur. Diameter und Position kann man dem Hinweisschild entnehmen."
`pipeline=substation`	distribution \| measuring \| valve \| valve_group \| inspection_guage>		See Pipeline Extension Proposal	No	"defines the area as a facility where the flow of the medium inside the pipeline is controlled and/or altered."	A new comprehensive scheme to replace quite a few of the tags below
`man_made=pipeline` Nodes only		870
`man_made=pipeline` Polygons only		180
`landuse=industrial`	Endesa gas >	about 95				Northern Spain
`pipeline=station`			No	No		Mainly used in Germany
`oil=station`			Found on the "WikiProject Power networks" page, but does not have a tag page	No	"a oil pumping / transport station"	Used mainly in Germany and St. Petersburg.
`gas=station`			Found on the "WikiProject Power networks" page, but does not have a tag page	No	"a gas pumping / transport station"
`gas=substation`			Found on the "WikiProject Power networks" page, but does not have a tag page	No	"a little station (for maintenance / inserting pigs)"
`man_made=oil_pump`			No	No
`man_made=pumping_station`	occasionally with `type=*`		Informally proposed tag from 2011, see OSM forum and talk page	No	"Pumping stations turns up every xx km along a Pipelines route and are necessary to increase the pressure."	From the type=* values that do get entered it looks like this almost always gets used on water, wastewater & sewage infrastructure.
`man_made=distribution_station`			Informally proposed tag from 2011, see OSM forum and talk page	No	"für Verteilerstation / Schiebergruppen"
`man_made=regulating_station`			Informally proposed tag from 2011, see OSM forum and talk page		"für Reglerstation"
`man_made=gas_station`
`man_made=gas_valve`
`man_made=pipeline_marker`
`man_made=pipelinemarker`
`man_made=pipeline_station`

Miscellaneous O&G tags

Tag	Other tags	Wikipage	Oil and Gas Infrastructure category	Description from the tag's wikipage	Comment
`amenity=fuel`		Yes	No	"The fuel tag is used to map a fuel station, also known as a filling station, petrol station, gas station and petrol garage. It is the retail-type facility where vehicles can be refueled."
`man_made=flare`		Yes	No	"A flare is a tower constructed to burn off excess gas, either as a safety measure on a production oil or gas field, or on a refinery of petroleum products."
`industrial=oil sands`	`landuse=industrial`	No	No		Used in Canada
`seamark:harbour:category=tanker`		No	No		These two tags are used in the middle east & north Africa without much overlap.
`man_made=oil_terminal`		No	No

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