Tracking Gustav and Possible Impact on US Energy Infrastructure

As Gustav increases in intensity traveling through the Gulf the threat of it hitting Louisiana and potentially New Orleans appears to be increasing. It also looks like Gustav could intersect with a variety of critical US energy infrastructure. We’ve been tracking both the storm and the potential impact on energy infrastructure and thought we would share some of the data. The map below shows a few of the datasets we’ve put together thus far:

Gustav is the orange circles and they are sized by the wind speed of the storm for the predicted location. The blue squares are refineries sized by their production levels in barrels of oil refined per day. Finally the white circles are the locations of offshore oil and gas platforms.

The source data is all available on Finder! – here are a few of the datasets that might be of interest:

National Weather Service, Hurricane Gustav Movement, World, 8.27.2008 – 9.1.2008

MMS, Major Shipping Fairways in the Gulf of Mexico (Line), World, 2008

Wikipedia, Global Oil Refineries, World, 2.3.2004

MMS, Active Pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico, World, 2008

MMS, Pacific OCS Region: Platform/Rig Locations, Gulf of Mexico, 8/1/2008