On 2/26/2020 3:54 AM, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
There are some users on the wiki who seem to treat these two tags as
near-synonyms
man_made=petroleum_well
man_made=pumping_rig
The later was approved, but the first is much more common.
The proposal in 2008 for pumping_rig said
"A tag for pumping platforms - gas, oil, etc. The rig may be on ground or water"
But petroleum_well says just: "An oil well is a boring in the Earth
that is designed to bring petroleum oil or gas to the surface."
I believe not all petrolum wells have a pumping rig? Can someone
confirm that these tags are different?
Oil wells generally begin with a boring apparatus housed in a vertical
derrick (drilling tower). Depending on the circumstances, the derrick
might be dismantled when the well is ready for production.
Once a well is in production, a pumping rig (which I'd call a pumpjack)
is installed, to pull the crude up and into a pipeline or storage tank.
It's possible to have multiple pumpjacks for a single well -- they're
not synonymous.
It's also possible to have a functioning petroleum well without any
notable surface-level equipment, especially a gas well.
Jason
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