DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13259749
title: Oil and Gas Infrastructure Mapping (OGIM) database

description: The Oil and Gas Infrastructure Mapping (OGIM) database is a global, spatially explicit, and granular database of oil and gas infrastructure, developed by Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) (www.edf.org) and MethaneSAT, LLC (www.methanesat.org) – a wholly owned subsidiary of EDF. 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 and MethaneSAT, LLC, of publicly available geospatial data sources of oil and gas facilities reported by official government sources, industry, academic, and other non-government entities.

OGIM is a collection of data tables within a GeoPackage, an open-source geospatial database format. 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. All location data have been transformed to a common spatial reference system (WGS 1984, EPSG:4326). The GeoPackage also includes a “Data Catalog” table which lists each primary data source utilized during OGIM database development. Each source in the Data Catalog is assigned a Source Reference ID (‘SRC_ID’) and each record in the OGIM database has a 'SRC_REF_ID' attribute that can be used to join the record to its original source(s).

OGIM v2.5.1 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. 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. Please see the PDF document in the ‘Files’ section of this page for a description of all attribute columns present within the OGIM database. Full details on database development and related analytics can be found in the following Earth System Science Data (ESSD) journal paper. Please cite the 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.

Important note: While the results section of the manuscript is specific to v1 of the OGIM, the methods described therein are the the same methods used to develop and update OGIM_v2.5.1. Additionally, while we describe our data sources 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. 

OGIM_v2.5.1.gpkg. Key changes since v1.1:



Significant updates have been made to the oil and natural gas wells layer. In most US states, v2.5.1 relies upon well location data reported by state agencies rather than the Dept. of Homeland Security’s Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD). Across all countries, about 50% of well records in v2.5.1 were published by their primary source 1-April-2024 or later.

The earlier OGIM_v1.1 version included a layer of publicly sourced, spatially explicit oil and natural gas production volumes for the year 2022. This production layer is not present in v2.5.1 as we continue to develop and improve that data product.


OGIM v2.5.1 is based on public-domain datasets reported on or prior to April 2024. Each record in OGIM indicates a source date (SRC_DATE) when the original source of 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 and MethaneSAT, LLC: Mark Omara (momara@edf.org) and Ritesh Gautam (rgautam@edf.org).