Energy Infrastructure Incident Map

Open-source intelligence

Why we think this is a strong OSINT tool

EnergyWar.net brings many otherwise disconnected public records into one spatial and chronological research surface. Its value is not simply the number of markers: it lets a researcher compare events with the infrastructure, transport routes, environmental signals and source evidence around them, while preserving uncertainty and attribution.

• Build geographic context by viewing attacks, accidents, shutdowns and closures beside refineries, power stations, pipelines, ports, tankers, strategic reserves and other infrastructure.
• Isolate one layer with the Only control, or combine layers to test relationships—for example, incidents beside pipeline routes, ports, active fires or major generating facilities.
• Use the timeline, date range, incident-type filters and trend summaries to identify clusters, repeated attacks, escalation patterns and changes over time.
• Compare an incident marker with NASA satellite imagery, FIRMS fire detections, radiation monitors, GPS interference and external CIR records where those sources are relevant.
• Follow facility histories to distinguish a new event from repeat damage, an earlier shutdown or a long-running operational problem at the same site.
• Open the underlying report, inspect its evidence label and source tier, and separate the confirmed event from claims about cause, responsibility, damage or capacity loss.
• Copy a stable citation or shareable incident link so another researcher can reproduce the same line of inquiry and review the original evidence.

The map is a starting point for investigation, not proof by itself. Good OSINT practice still requires opening the cited material, checking dates and locations, looking for independent corroboration and clearly distinguishing observation from inference.

Trust and transparency

How an incident is checked

EnergyWar.net is a source-linked research map, not an automatic truth detector. Verification is a repeatable editorial process that keeps the event, its cause and any attribution separate.

1. 1. Record the claim precisely — The entry identifies what is actually supported: an occurrence, a shutdown, damage, casualties, a spill, a claimed attacker or an unresolved cause. Those claims are not treated as interchangeable.
2. 2. Link the evidence — A named publisher, report title and source URL are attached wherever available. Operator, government and belligerent statements are labelled as claims from those parties, not silently converted into independent confirmation.
3. 3. Judge the source for this purpose — Sources are assessed through the five tiers below. A primary authority may be definitive about its own alert or measurement while still being non-independent on responsibility, damage or wartime attribution.
4. 4. Seek corroboration — Independent reporting, regulator or investigator records, satellite/fire data, maritime advisories and other primary evidence are compared where available. A second outlet repeating the same original claim is not treated as two independent confirmations.
5. 5. Preserve uncertainty — Approximate locations, disputed responsibility, unmeasured spill volume, precautionary unit closures and interception debris are described as such. Shutdown percentages and capacity losses are shown only when the reviewed evidence supports them.
6. 6. Assign and revise the label — Documented, Reported, Unconfirmed or Under investigation communicates the current strength of the event record. Voluntary/commercial closure is a separate event classification for non-attack wind-downs. Entries can be updated as stronger evidence appears.

Evidence labels

• Documented / high confidence — strong source support, primary evidence or credible corroboration.
• Reported / moderate confidence — credible reporting exists, but important confirmation remains limited.
• Unconfirmed / unverified — a plausible claim or reference marker that has not been independently verified.
• Under investigation / unverified — the event is acknowledged, while its cause or important facts remain under inquiry.
• Voluntary/commercial closure — a non-attack operational category for economic, demand, restructuring or energy-transition wind-downs; it is not a confidence grade.

Investigate

Incident intelligence

• Search by incident, place or facility, with infrastructure, evidence and incident-type filtering.
• Timeline analytics with custom date ranges, day/week/month/year grouping, type filters, clickable bars and map focus.
• Timeline totals for incidents, attacks, fires, explosions, spills, countries and facilities.
• Monthly trend analysis showing the peak month, most affected infrastructure and most frequently attributed actor.
• Facility histories that connect repeat incidents through a stable facility identifier.
• Structured incident types, attribution wording, production halts, shutdown percentages, capacity impacts and closure reasons.
• Voluntary or commercial refinery closures are separated from attacks and accidents and receive a distinct, contrast-safe green marker.
• Structured oil-spill records covering status, material, reported volume or footprint, water impact and cleanup notes.
• Nuclear records covering event kind, affected reactor units, INES level, shutdown state and radiological-release status.
• Radiological leakage can trigger a major-incident alert rather than appearing as an ordinary marker.
• Active-fire status is tracked separately from the original incident so extinguished fires are not presented as still burning.
• Cyber incidents are included only where a real operational consequence to energy infrastructure is documented.

Explore

Map experience

• Client-side map processing: the visitor’s browser performs the expensive incident filtering, clustering and interactive rendering after receiving a lightweight page shell. This reduces Cloudflare CPU use so EnergyWar.net can serve more visitors reliably.
• Three map modes: Detailed (the default), Atlas and an interactive Globe.
• A locally bundled MapLibre renderer using a free OpenFreeMap basemap for detailed geography.
• Smooth pan and zoom, marker clustering, city and road context, and metric/imperial distance scales.
• Incident focus automatically moves to an approximately 1,000 km-wide view; grouped timeline results are fitted together.
• Searchable, categorized and collapsible layer manager with active-layer chips, Clear controls and an Only button that isolates one layer.
• Theme-aware glyphs for incidents, facilities, nuclear strikes, closures, pipelines, ships and other infrastructure.
• Selectable oil, gas and future-project routes, plus a curated subsea-cable layer.
• A live AIS vessel-tracking layer: real-time ship positions from AISStream within the visible map area, available from zoom level 3 and capped at 2,500 vessels at a time.
• An optional official maritime-alert layer sourced from MSCIO, covering preliminary reports in the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandeb, Gulf of Aden, Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman without adding them to the curated incident count.
• An optional EASA aviation conflict-zone notice panel, clearly separated from real-time attack alerts.
• A traditional map colors toggle that shows the basemap in its original, untethered colors instead of the current theme's palette.
• Twenty-seven selectable color themes, plus six independent typography themes (Editorial, Modern, Classic, Humanist, Technical and Compact), both persisting across pages.
• A branded, theme-matched animated loading screen shown on first visit each session: a stylized world grid of nodes and connections that power on in sequence, colored to match whichever theme and typography are currently selected.

• Additional map layers:
  • Oil tankers
  • Gas ships and ports
  • Oil pipelines
  • Gas pipelines
  • Subsea cables
  • Piracy reports
  • Active fires
  • Strategic reserves
  • Electricity use
  • Power stations
  • Solar farms
  • Wind farms
  • Oil refineries
  • Refinery shutdowns
  • Water names
  • Heat map
  • Future infrastructure projects
  • GPS interference
  • Nuclear power plants shaded by recent incident status

Monitor

Live and external data

• NASA GIBS satellite imagery with layer, date and opacity controls, plus NASA Worldview links.
• NASA FIRMS VIIRS active-fire detections.
• Radiation-network selector for Safecast, EURDEP, Radmon.org and GMCMap.
• The nearest available Safecast reading, its distance and freshness on nuclear-incident details.
• GPSJam interference mapping and an external OpenTopography terrain/elevation reference.
• Optional CIR Eyes on Russia records with viewport/date filtering, clustering, evidence popups, an external-data disclaimer and Cloudflare caching.
• Live Australian NEM electricity demand from AEMO on the Australia consumption marker.
• Brent, WTI and natural-gas benchmark panels with a fixed-color up/down direction strip, plus an optional EIA monthly Brent-price overlay on the incidents-by-month chart and market notices in the ticker; panels that have no current reading are hidden automatically instead of showing a placeholder.
• US EIA gasoline and diesel prices, live UK and NSW (Australia) retail-fuel panels sourced directly from checkfuelprices.co.uk and NSW FuelCheck, plus established fuel-price links for Germany, Japan and other Australian states.
• A slowed, edge-faded live incident ticker across the top of the page summarizing the latest entries with their source.

Research and sharing

Supporting features

• Every incident detail links to its cited report and displays evidence status and confidence separately.
• Short, shareable incident URLs with backward compatibility and a ready-to-copy citation.
• A searchable directory of every cited publisher, report title and domain, collapsed initially for faster rendering.
• Dedicated UKMTO links on maritime records that cite a numbered UKMTO advisory.
• Source links can be shortened, while the original destination remains the evidentiary reference.
• Major-incident alerts are distinct from strategic policy reports, which do not receive false physical-incident markers.
• Up to three current major-incident and pinned strategic-outlook panels shown on the homepage, backed by a dedicated major-incidents archive page listing every previous major incident chronologically.
• An anonymous tip and correction form, About and methodology page, and short How to use guide.
• An aggregate anonymous visit counter.
• Bookmark and Share this page controls, plus a theme-aware header and site-wide support link.

Customization

Visual themes

27 selectable themes:

• Field
• Midnight
• Ocean
• Signal
• Archive
• Terminal
• Atlas
• Ember
• Blueprint
• Desert
• Arctic
• Satellite
• Industrial
• Crisis
• Paper Map
• Linen
• Slate
• Fog
• Graphite
• Sand
• Dusk
• Moss
• Clay
• Sunbleached
• Blade Runner
• Blade Runner 2049
• Hoth

Source trust and use

The five source tiers

A tier is a guide to the weight, independence and appropriate use of a source—not a guarantee that every claim it publishes is correct. The same source may be authoritative for one narrow fact and insufficient for another.

1. Tier 1 — strongest primary or independently edited sources — Reuters, Associated Press, UKMTO, the IAEA, IEA, U.S. Chemical Safety Board, ARIA, NTSB, Transportation Safety Board of Canada, ATSB, PHMSA, CISA, national energy regulators and official statistical agencies. These provide the strongest routine foundation, although initial alerts may still be revised.
2. Tier 2 — highly reliable journalism and specialist intelligence — BBC, Bloomberg, CBC, RFE/RL, S&P Global Commodity Insights, Argus, Global Energy Monitor, Oil & Gas Journal, Hydrocarbon Processing, The Maritime Executive, Inspectioneering and other established specialist research or reporting operations.
3. Tier 3 — credible regional reporting, best with corroboration — Al Jazeera, Ukrainska Pravda, The Kyiv Independent, The Moscow Times, Africanews, Arab News, Times of Israel, Deccan Herald, Ahram Online, Dawn, Business Standard, ANTARA, Rigzone and other credible regional outlets. Their local access is valuable, while conflict attribution receives particular care.
4. Tier 4 — authoritative for a limited purpose, but not independent — Government ministries, militaries, police, system operators and energy companies—including the Saudi Press Agency, China’s Ministry of Emergency Management, JOGMEC, Indian Oil, KNPC, Kazakhstan’s Energy Ministry, U.S. Central Command, AEMO, BP and ExxonMobil. These can authoritatively report their own actions, measurements or facilities, but broader claims require independent checking.
5. Tier 5 — useful leads or reference material — Wikipedia, China Daily, ANI, belligerent statements such as Armed Forces of Ukraine claims, defence-oriented outlets, crowd posts, aggregators and operator publicity from companies such as CNPC, Dangote or Pemex. These can identify a lead or provide context, but should not establish a sensitive claim without corroboration.

The standalone source directory provides clickable Tier 1–5 links, while the full methodology explains their limits and provides archive controls.