Key:substance

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Description
Substances transported in pipelines Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: pipelines
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesmay be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Documented values: 7
Useful combination
See also
Status: approvedPage for proposal

This tag is used to describe the substance transported in pipelines or processed in related facilities.

Common values

Value Description Tag usage
oil Crude oil, as pumped out of the ground
fuel Refined petroleum products. Most of those pipelines are switched between multiple substances, like gasoline, diesel, heating oil or others.
gas Natural gas
water Water, additionally see drinking_water=*
rainwater Water from rainfall et. al., not polluted.
sewage Sewage
hot_water Hot water
lpg Liquefied petroleum gas, a propane/butane mixture
lng Liquefied natural gas, cooled and not pressurized
hydrogen Hydrogen - Mainly used as a chemical feedstock
ethane Ethane - Natural gas liquid, ethylene feedstock
butane Butane
propane Propane - used as chemical feedstock and for heating
propylene - chemical feedstock to produce plastic Propylene
ethylene - chemical feedstock to produce plastic Ethylene
nitrogen Nitrogen
benzene Benzene
ngl Natural gas liquid purity products
y-grade Mixed NGLs, output of natural gas processing plants which has to be fractionated into NGL purity products (such as ethane, butane, propane etc)
carbon_dioxide Carbon dioxide - Often injected into oilfields for increased production
carbon_monoxide Carbon monoxide
cyclohexane Cyclohexane
isobutane Isobutane
isobutylene Isobutylene
butadiene Butadiene
naphtha Naphtha
methanol Methanol
acetone Acetone
chemicals A generic tag that can be used if the specific chemical in the pipeline is not known.
slurry Fluid mixture of a pulverized solid with a liquid, for easy transport

If the medium of a pipeline you are tagging is not listed here, please choose a meaningful value at your own discretion.

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See also

  • content=* – To describe the contents of a feature used to store materials
  • resource=* – Indicates the resource or mineral commodity related to a feature
  • utility=* – Specifies the type of utility infrastructure which a feature represents