Glossary

storage capacity

storage capacity is attribute fields describing how much product a terminal can hold or a pipeline can move, which the catalog classifies as a field type. In Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets, TankTerminals.com and TGS US Pipelines are working examples.

What is storage capacity?

Attribute fields describing how much product a terminal can hold or a pipeline can move.

In this industry's records it appears as terminal shell/storage capacity and as pipeline throughput capacity denominated in Mbbl/d (liquids) and MMcf/d (gas).

In this catalog it appears concretely: - TankTerminals.com (tagging) — "storage-capacity', 'throughput". - TGS US Pipelines — "capacity (Mbbl/d and MMcf/d)". - HIFLD POL Terminals — "location, operator, capacity, commodity and access-mode attributes".

Why does storage capacity matter when choosing a dataset?

A table is only as good as the column you actually need. If this field is absent, sparsely populated or defined inconsistently across rows, no amount of surrounding richness rescues the analysis, so it deserves its own line in your evaluation checklist.

The failure mode is concrete: the label appears in a listing, the delivered files tell a different story, and the gap surfaces mid-project when fixing it is most expensive.

You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and TankTerminals.com lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.

How do you evaluate storage capacity in a data source?

Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:

  1. Read TankTerminals.com's record on tagging — "storage-capacity', 'throughput" — then confirm the delivered artifact matches before you license anything.
  2. Open TGS US Pipelines and confirm its record — "capacity (Mbbl/d and MMcf/d)" — against the files you actually receive.
  3. Open HIFLD POL Terminals and confirm its record — "location, operator, capacity, commodity and access-mode attributes" — against the files you actually receive.
  4. Pin down update cadence in writing. Across this catalog, 22.6% of 1,744 datasets refresh daily and 64 still arrive only through a manual request form, so ask exactly how fresh each release is.
  5. Check whether definitions are verified at all. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), and any source you license should meet that bar.
  6. Price the delivery route before the license. In this catalog bulk download is the most common access method (725 datasets) ahead of official APIs (574), and 379 sources still require scraping — a maintenance cost that lands on you, not the vendor.

See the term applied to real records: oil-gas-storage-transportation data.

Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - bulk storage - pipeline capacity - tank terminal directory

Frequently asked questions

What is an example of storage capacity?

TankTerminals.com is the clearest example in this catalog. Its record on tagging reads: "storage-capacity', 'throughput". Across all 1,744 datasets Datadory averages a quality score of 7.81 out of 10, so a named example can be weighed rather than trusted blindly.

Is data described as "storage capacity" free to use?

Treat access and permission separately. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets in this catalog are free to access, but 235 are freemium and 61 are paid outright, so confirm both the price and the license on the exact distribution before building on it.

How do I verify a source really provides storage capacity?

Open TankTerminals.com next to TGS US Pipelines and compare the promise with the download. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), which makes that check fast inside the catalog and manual outside it.

Datasets containing this field

Datasets containing storage capacity

5 datasets carry storage capacity in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.

Datasets

OGIM — Oil and Gas Infrastructure Mapping database

OGIM_ID · CATEGORY · REGION …+18 more

Datasets

OpenStreetMap — Pipeline & Storage Facility Features

man_made · substance · location …+11 more

Oil & Gas Storage & Transportation

TankTerminals.com — Global Tank Terminal Directory

Oil & Gas Storage & Transportation

TGS US Pipelines ArcGIS Feature Layer

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