All Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical Development in the Ohio River Valley

This map shows petroleum related infrastructure In the Upper Ohio River Valley, including counties intersecting the Ohio River as well as bordering counties.  This starts from the origin of the river at Pittsburgh, PA to Brown County, OH and Mason County, KY.

Data layers include:

Name: Petroleum and Natural Gas Power Plants
Date: March 2019 
Notes: This layer is based on data from the EIA-860M report, which includes power plants and other grid-connected facilities with capacities of 1 megawatt or greater.  This has been filtered to only include natural gas and petroleum related fuel types, with the results clipped to the geography of interest.

Name: Pumping Stations 
Date: 2019 
Notes: Facilities that assist in the transmission of petroleum products in pipelines.

Name: Compressor Stations 
Source: FracTracker Alliance, based on various sources
Date: 2019 
Notes: This compressor station data layer is based on a number of sources, including the Pennsylvania DEP, West Virginia DEP, Ohio EPA, US DHS, US EPA, and the Oil and Gas Threat Maps,  and the Environmental Integrity Project (2019, May 31. Emissions Increase Database. Retrieved from http://www.environmentalintegrity.org/oil-gas-infrastructure-emissions). In the past, there were widespread issues with poor location data in several of these states, notably Ohio and Pennsylvania, and it is possible that this could still be the case.  Omissions in compressor station datasets has historically been widespread as well - our hope is that by aggregating datasets from recent multiple sources that we help to alleviate both of these issues, but the possibility of data issues remains.  FracTracker was not able to find Title V air permit data for the portion of Kentucky that is represented on this map, so that state is likely under-represented with respect to compressor stations.  While merging the data, we attempted to eliminate duplication by removing facilities that appear within 250 meters of compressors that were already accounted for.

Name: Gas Processing Plants 
Source: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and  and the Environmental Integrity Project (2019, May 31. Emissions Increase Database. Retrieved from http://www.environmentalintegrity.org/oil-gas-infrastructure-emissions)
Date: 2019 
Notes: Gas processing plants are facilities that separate natural gas liquids (NGLs) and various impurities from the natural gas stream.

Name: Petroleum Terminals 
Date: 2019 
Notes: Petroleum terminals are storage facilities for crude and refined petroleum products.  They are often adjacent to a variety of intermodal transit networks.

Name: Oil Refineries  
Date: 2019 
Notes: Oil refineries are facilities that convert crude oil into a variety of petroleum-based products, ranging from gasoline to fertilizer to plastics.

Name: Petroleum Ports 
Date: 2019 
Notes: This data layer includes maritime ports that process more than 200 short tons, or 400,000 pounds of petroleum products per year.

Name: Ohio River
Date: 2019 
Notes: This data layer represents the path of the Ohio River.  It was created from a broader dataset of rivers and streams, selecting only the Ohio River.

Name: States 
Date: 2019
Notes: This layer includes state boundaries for the four state region of Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

Name: Counties of Interest 
Source: USDA Geospatial Data Gateway, modified by FracTracker Alliance
Date: 2019 
Notes: This layer includes counties in the Upper Ohio River Valley.  We have defined this region as starting at the origin of the Ohio River and extending downriver to Brown County, Ohio and Mason County, Kentucky. This includes all counties that touch the river as well as adjacent counties.

Gas Storage Data

Name: OH Storage Wells
Date: January 2018
Source: Ohio DNR
Notes: Gas storage wells in Ohio. Storage wells selected from a broader dataset by FracTracker Alliance.

Name: PA Storage Wells
Date:  January 2018
Source:  Pennsylvania DEP
Notes:  Gas storage wells in Pennsylvania. Storage wells selected from a broader dataset by FracTracker Alliance.

Name:  WV Storage Wells
Date:  January 2018
Source:  West Virginia DEP
Notes:  Gas storage wells in West Virginia. Storage wells selected from a broader dataset by FracTracker Alliance.

Gas Storage Facilities
According to the source of the data, Natural Gas Underground Storage Facilities include natural gas stored in different ways, "most commonly... underground under pressure in three types of facilities. These underground facilities are depleted reservoirs in oil and/or natural gas fields, aquifers, and salt cavern formations."

Potential Salt Cavern Storage
Areas in the Salina F4 salt interval, where underground caverns could be made to store natural gas liquids. 
Source: A Study to Determine the Potential to Create an Appalachian Storage Hub for Natural Gas Liquids

Potential Gas Field Storage
Underground gas fields, including depleted and existing storage fields, where natural gas liquids could be stored.
Source: A Study to Determine the Potential to Create an Appalachian Storage Hub for Natural Gas Liquids

Proposed Mountaineer NGL Storage
The location for underground salt cavern storage that is currently in the permitting process. 
Source: Energy Storage Ventures: https://www.esvllc.com/about-us/

Greenbrier Limestone
A formation where natural gas liquids could be stored in underground mined rock caverns. 
Source: West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey- http://www.wvgs.wvnet.edu/ash/securepages/Mapping_Files.aspx

Faults
Source: West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey- http://www.wvgs.wvnet.edu/ash/securepages/Mapping_Files.aspx

Proposed and In-Construction Pipelines:
From FracTracker Map: http://ft.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=4292f0e878e7452cb2316a099579e276. Data for this map was collected by FracTracker Alliance from online sources, including FERC, Sierra Club (https://content.sierraclub.org/ourwildamerica/keeping-gas-ground), RBN Energy (https://rbnenergy.com/midi/crude-projects and https://rbnenergy.com/midi/gas-projects, and EIA (https://www.eia.gov/naturalgas/pipelines/EIA-NaturalGasPipelineProjects.xlsx. Updated in February 2019. Direct download link: http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=0e1005a8cfc54458a04494691b88aa60

Natural Gas Pipelines
From EIA, Updated April 2018

Crude Oil Pipelines
From EIA, Updated January 2018

Natural Gas Liquid Pipelines
From EIA, (HGL pipelines) Updated April 2018

Petroleum Product Pipelines
From EIA, Updated January 2018

Petrochemical Infrastructure data comes from the EPA NAICS Facility Search, using the following codes to search for facilities along the Ohio River:
  • petrochem manufacturing (NAICS code 32511)
  • plastic bag and pouch manufacturing facilities (NAICS code 326111)
  • plastic packaging materials and unlaminated film and sheet manufacturing facilities (NAICS code 32611)
  • plastic packaging film and sheet (including laminated) manufacturing facilities (NAICS code 326112)
  • unlaminated plastic film and sheet (except packaging) manufacturing facility (NAICS code 326113)
  • unlaminated plastics profile shape manufacturing facility (NAICS code 326121)
  • laminated plastics plate, sheet (except packaging), and shape manufacturing facilities (NAICS code 32613)
  • facilities listed as "all other plastics product manufacturing" (NAICS code 326199)
  • paint and coating manufacturing facilities (NAICS code 325510)
  • nitrogenous fertilizer manufacturing facilities (NAICS code 325311)

Petrochemical Infrastructure
Natural Gas/Petroleum Power Plants and Electric Utilities
Gas Processing Plant
Compressor Stations
Petroleum Ports
Petroleum Terminals
Pumping Stations
Crude Oil Pipelines
Natural Gas Liquid Pipelines
Petroleum Pipelines
Planned Pipelines
Gas Storage Facilities
NGL Underground Storage
Salt Cavern- Potential NGL Storage
Ohio River
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