Oil and Gas Infrastructure Mapping (OGIM) database

The Oil and Gas Infrastructure Mapping (OGIM) database is a global, spatially explicit, and granular database of oil and gas infrastructure, developed at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) (www.edf.org). The OGIM database is developed to support the quantification and source characterization of oil and gas methane emissions. The database development is based on the acquisition, analysis, curation, integration, and quality-assurance, performed at EDF, of public-domain datasets reported by official government sources, industry, academic, and other non-government entities.

The OGIM database includes locations and facility attributes of oil and gas infrastructure types that are important sources of methane emissions, including oil and gas production wells, offshore production platforms, natural gas compressor stations, processing facilities, liquefied natural gas facilities, crude oil refineries, pipelines, etc.

The OGIM_v1 database includes approximately six million features, including 2.6 million point locations of oil and gas facility types and over 2.6 million kilometers of oil and gas pipelines. This work and the OGIM database, which we anticipate updating on a regular cadence, helps fill a crucial oil and gas geospatial data need, in support of the quantification and attribution of global oil and gas methane emissions at high resolution.

Full details for database development and related analytics can be found in the following journal paper, which is under review at Earth System Science Data journal.

Please cite the paper when using the database:

Omara, M., Gautam, R., O'Brien, M., Himmelberger, A., Franco, A., Meisenhelder, K., Hauser, G., Lyon, D., Chulakadaba, A., Miller, C., Franklin, J., Wofsy, S., and Hamburg, S.: Developing a spatially explicit global oil and gas infrastructure database for characterizing methane emission sources at high resolution, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-452, 2023.

Important note: While we describe these datasets in detail in the manuscript above, and include maps for all acquired datasets, this open-access version of the OGIM database does not include the locations of about 300 natural gas compressor stations in Russia. Future updates may include these datasets when appropriate permissions to make them publicly accessible are obtained. 

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OGIM_v1.1.gpkg. May-10-2023 update:

• This update includes the addition of natural gas flaring detections for the year 2021 based on the VIIRS dataset, available from the Earth Observation Group at Colorado School of Mines, as described in the manuscript text.
  
  
• The current version of the OGIM (OGIM_v1.1) is based on public-domain datasets reported on or prior to January 2023. Each record in OGIM includes a source date when the data was last updated. Some records may have out-of-date information, for example, if facility status has changed since we last acquired the data. We are continuing to update the OGIM database as new public-domain datasets become available.

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Point of Contact at Environmental Defense Fund: Ritesh Gautam (rgautam@edf.org).