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 Fresh water, additionally see drinking_water=*

rainwater Water from rainfall, in a separate system from sewage.

sewage Sewage, including water in combined sewage systems.

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 Propylene

ethylene 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