Tracking Gustav and Possible Impact on US Energy Infrastructure
August 29th, 2008by Sean Gorman
About the Author: Sean Gorman founded FortiusOne in 2005 to bring location based analytics to the mass market. Sean brings over 10 years of experience at the forefront of the geospatial revolution as a researcher, practitioner, and entrepreneur at FortiusOne. Through both academic and entreprenurial efforts he has been working to make geographic data more accessible to the public since 1997 culminating in the creation of GeoCommons – a crowd-sourced repository of statistical data and social feeds that can be easily mapped, remixed and reused by non-technical users.
Sean has been featured in media such as, Wired, Der Spiegel, ABC, Washington Post, Business 2.0, MSNBC, CBS and CNN. He also holds a PhD. From George Mason University in Public Policy where he was the Provost’s High Potential Scholar and was the recipient of the Fischer Prize. He has published dozens of articles on geographic data sharing and analysis, and authored the book Networks, Complexity and Security: The Role of Public Policy in Critical Infrastructure Protection. Read more from this authorAs 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
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