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

General

Tag	Other tags	Usage	Wikipage	Oil and gas infrastructure category	Description from the tag's wikipage	Comment
industrial=oil	landuse=industrial	industrial=oil $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo More details at taginfo	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	industrial=gas $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo More details at taginfo	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.

Fields

Tag	Other tags	Usage	Wikipage	Oil and gas infrastructure category	Description from the tag's wikipage	Comment
waterway=offshore_field	name=*	waterway=offshore_field $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo More details at taginfo	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		industrial=hydrocarbon_field $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo More details at taginfo	No	No
man_made=oilfield		man_made=oilfield $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo More details at taginfo	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

Wells

Tag	Other tags	Usage	Wikipage	Oil and gas infrastructure category	Description from the tag's wikipage	Comment
man_made=petroleum_well		man_made=petroleum_well $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	Yes	Yes	"A boring through the Earth's surface that is designed to find and acquire petroleum oil."
	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		man_made=pumping_rig $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	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	resource=*oil landuse="industrial" |gas	industrial=wellsite $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	No	No		This tag has been used only on 3 dense clusters of well sites in Colorado USA
seamark:type=platform	seamark:platform:category=production	seamark:platform:category=production $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	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		man_made=offshore_platform $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	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		landuse=wellsite $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	Yes	Yes	no definition available	This tag has been used across only 8 sites worldwide.
man_made=oil_well		man_made=oil_well $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	Yes	Yes	no definition available
man_made=pumpjack		man_made=pumpjack $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	No	No
industrial=well_cluster	landuse=industrial	industrial=well_cluster $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	Yes	Yes	no definition available	Used in northern Russia.
man_made=rig	landuse=industrial	man_made=rig $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	No	No		Used on wells over a small area in Germany
man_made=injection_well		man_made=injection_well $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	No	No		One field in south Germany.
man_made=oil_drilling	landuse=allotments	man_made=oil_drilling $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	No	No		One field on Germany-France border
landuse=well		landuse=well $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	Yes	Yes	no definition available

Storage

Tag	Other tags	Usage	Wikipage	Oil and gas infrastructure category	Description from the tag's wikipage	Comment
man_made=gasometer		man_made=gasometer $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	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		man_made=storage_tank $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo 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
	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		man_made=oil_tank $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	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		man_made=fuel_storage_tank $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	No	No
man_made=fuel_tank		man_made=fuel_tank $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	No	No		A little-used duplicate of man_made=fuel_storage_tank which is detailed above.
man_made=gas_cavern	operator=eon Gas Storage	man_made=gas_cavern $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	No	No		Germany
man_made=floating_storage	operator=*	man_made=floating_storage $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	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." || rowspan="2" | 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=*	seamark:platform:category=fpso $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	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		man_made=fuel storage_tanks $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	No	No		South Africa
man_made=fuel_deport		man_made=fuel_deport $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	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

Refineries

Tag	Other tags	Usage	Wikipage	Oil and gas infrastructure category	Description from the tag's wikipage	Comment
industrial=refinery	name=* landuse=industrial	industrial=refinery $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	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.
	product=gas name=* landuse=industrial		No	No
industrial=oil_refinery	landuse=industrial	industrial=oil_refinery $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	No	No

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

Pipelines

Tag	Other tags	Usage	Wikipage	Oil and gas infrastructure category	Description from the tag's wikipage	Comment
man_made=pipeline	see tag page	man_made=pipeline $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	Yes see also: Proposed features/PipelineExtension 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	seamark:pipeline_submarine:product=oil $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	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:pipeline_submarine:product=gas	seamark:pipeline_submarine:product=gas $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	Yes	No

Pipeline surface features

Many pipeline surface features are being tagged with the #General listed above.

Tag	Other tags	Usage	Wikipage	Oil and gas infrastructure category	Description from the tag's wikipage	Comment
pipeline=marker	see tag page	pipeline=marker $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	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	pipeline=valve $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	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>	pipeline=substation $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	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		pipeline=station $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	No	No		Mainly used in Germany
oil=station		oil=station $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	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		gas=station $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	Found on the "WikiProject Power networks" page, but does not have a tag page	No	"a gas pumping / transport station"
gas=substation		gas=substation $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	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		man_made=oil_pump $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	No	No
man_made=pumping_station	occasionally with type=*	man_made=pumping_station $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	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		man_made=distribution_station $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	Informally proposed tag from 2011, see OSM forum and talk page	No	"für Verteilerstation / Schiebergruppen"
man_made=regulating_station		man_made=regulating_station $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	Informally proposed tag from 2011, see OSM forum and talk page		"für Reglerstation"
man_made=gas_station		man_made=gas_station $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo
man_made=gas_valve		man_made=gas_valve $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo
man_made=pipeline_marker		man_made=pipeline_marker $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo
man_made=pipelinemarker		man_made=pipelinemarker $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo
man_made=pipeline_station		man_made=pipeline_station $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo

Miscellaneous

Tag	Other tags	Usage	Wikipage	Oil and gas infrastructure category	Description from the tag's wikipage	Comment
amenity=fuel		amenity=fuel $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	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		man_made=flare $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	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	industrial=oil sands $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	No	No		Used in Canada
seamark:harbour:category=tanker		seamark:harbour:category=tanker $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	No	No		These two tags are used in the middle east & north Africa without much overlap.
man_made=oil_terminal		man_made=oil_terminal $1% $1% $1% $1% More details at taginfo	No	No