(MethaneSAT LLC; Environmental Defense Fund) The Oil and Gas Infrastructure Mapping (OGIM) database is a global, spatially explicit, and granular dataset of oil and gas infrastructure. It is developed by Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) (www.edf.org) and MethaneSAT, LLC (www.methanesat.org), a wholly owned subsidiary of EDF. The OGIM database helps fill a crucial geospatial data need, by supporting the quantification and source characterization of oil and gas methane emissions. The database is developed via acquisition, analysis, curation, integration, and quality-assurance (performed at EDF) of publicly available geospatial data sources. These oil and gas facility datasets are reported by governments, industry, academics, and other non-government entities. OGIM is a collection of data tables within a GeoPackage. Each data table within the GeoPackage 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, oil and natural gas processing facilities, liquefied natural gas facilities, crude oil refineries, and pipelines. OGIM v2.7 includes approximately 6.7 million features, including 4.5 million point locations of oil and gas wells and over 1.2 million kilometers of oil and gas pipelines. Please see the PDF document in the “Files” section of this page for more information about this version, including attribute column definitions, key changes since the previous version, and more. Full details on database development and related analytics can be found in the following Earth System Science Data (ESSD) journal paper. Please cite this paper when using any version of the database: Omara, M., Gautam, R., O’Brien, M., Himmelberger, A., Franco, A., Meisenhelder, K., Hauser, G., Lyon, D., Chulakadabba, 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-15-3761-2023, 2023
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Oil and Gas Infrastructure Mapping (OGIM) database
Date last updated: 2025