Mapping Energy Systems Impacted by the Russia-Ukraine War

By FracTracker Alliance/April 20, 2022 / 10 minute read

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Overview

The West’s failure to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy is funding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Mapping Energy Systems Impacted by the Russia-Ukraine War

This StoryMap explores Russia and Ukraine’s oil and gas reserves, export and refining infrastructure, and fossil fuel plants; bans, sanctions, and phaseouts of Russian oil imports; implications for the US LNG market; and the renewable energy landscape in the European Union, including in the heating, electricity, and transportation sectors.

Place your cursor over the map below and scroll to advance the StoryMap.

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References

European pipelines: Downloaded 13 March 2022 by FracTracker Alliance from https://zenodo.org/record/3985298#.YjIMc3rMJD9 and processed from geojson format to ESRI shapefile.

Russian pipelines and International oil refineries: developed by FracTracker Alliance

Oil and gas fields of the world (minus US): Source: https://worldmap.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=06e2ad891f1648259fb9dc7e6033f9a5. Originally retrieved from the AAPG Datapages website. https://worldmap.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html based at Harvard University

US oil and gas fields: Downloaded 1 April 2022 by FracTracker Alliance from https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/oil-and-natural-gas-fields/explore?location=0.035784%2C34.388898%2C1.00 This feature class/shapefile contains Oil and Natural Gas Fields for the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level (HIFLD) Database (https://hifld-dhs-gii.gov/HIFLD) as well as the Energy modeling and simulation community.Data source: Federal Communications Commission Data and details are hosted by HIFLD as received from the data provider. For questions /feedback, please email hifld@hq.dhs.gov. Data last updated September 2017.

Global LNG terminals: Data downloaded, processed, and geolocated by FracTracker Alliance, 2 March 2022. Data sources http://globalenergyobservatory.org/list.php?db=Transmission&type=LNG_Ports and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LNG_terminals

World petroleum assets: Downloaded by FracTracker Alliance, 1 March 2022, from https://certmapper.cr.usgs.gov/data/apps/we-data/

Metadata: https://certmapper.cr.usgs.gov/data/wep/dds60/tps_sumg.htm

This coverage includes arcs and regions that describe U.S. Geological Survey delineated Total Petroleum Systems of the World. Each petroleum system is defined as a mappable entity encompassing genetically related petroleum that occurs in seeps, shows and accumulations (discovered or undiscovered) that have been generated by a pod, or by closely related pods, of mature source rock, together with the essential mappable geologic elements (source, reservoir, seal and overburden rocks) that control fundamental processes of generation, migration, entrapment and preservation of petroleum.

Offshore European pipelines: Downloaded by FracTracker Alliance, March 2022, from https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Pipelines#Metadata_Information. LAST DATA UPDATE 2022-01-31. This facility provides free access to GIS data on European marine pipelines. View the marine pipelines data on an interactive map of Europe and search pipelines sites and locations. Alternatively, download Esri compatible GIS files (Geodatabase or Shapefile). Datasets are also available via OGC compliant web feature service (WFS) or web map services (WMS). The metadata featured here can be downloaded as XML.

Additional sources used:

Concawe

Eurostat

Global Energy Monitor

World – Global Power Plant Database

Global Wind Atlas

Humanitarian Data Exchange

MarineRegions.org

USGS World and Gas Resources

Topics in This Article:

Clean Energy, Economics, Infrastructure, Legislation & Politics, Liquified Natural Gas, Pipelines, Social

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Sonia Mercedes says:
October 26, 2022 at 10:20 am

Congratulations! Excellent material, thank you.

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