Empty petrol stations and volatile prices: Australia’s fuel crisis in charts

Hundreds of work stations crossed Australia person tally empty, substance prices are elevated and lipid shipments person been cancelled.

Australia is battling a substance crises arsenic Iran’s closure of nan strait of Hormuz continues to bite. The national authorities has released substance reserves, trim substance excise taxes and rolled retired a national substance information plan.

While we cognize location person been outages and value increases, it tin beryllium difficult to get a afloat image of what’s happening, successful portion owed to nan thousands of independent businesses and different governments involved. We person brought together nan latest information connected prices, outages and lipid tanker deliveries.

Looking astatine nan averages for petrol and diesel crossed Australia, we tin spot really overmuch prices person risen since nan US and Israel’s warfare connected Iran began successful precocious February.

There tin beryllium a immense variety successful value and availability, moreover crossed a comparatively mini area. Fuel outages aren’t fixed – stations tin tally retired and regain banal arsenic governments and companies title to capable gaps successful proviso chains and merchandise much fuel.

The representation beneath shows nan number of substance outages crossed Australia, time by day. You tin hover complete nan stations for a macro view, and click done nan dates wherever information is available.

Since we began collecting information connected 27 March, you tin spot a spike successful outages successful New South Wales and Victoria connected 30 and 31 March.

The adjacent floor plan shows nan full number of stations retired of astatine slightest 1 benignant of substance connected each day. This is an estimate and whitethorn beryllium an undercount fixed nan different timescales that each authorities reports data.

At slightest six substance shipments to Australia person already been cancelled aliases deferred, and experts say location will astir apt beryllium much delays aliases cancellations.

The adjacent floor plan shows nan full number of “port calls” – aliases stops – astatine Australian ports by tankers pinch shipments of substance and crude oil, which is refined to make fuel.

The information does not separate betwixt imports and exports, but it does show a flimsy diminution successful nan number of tankers successful February and March compared pinch nan past six years.

The aforesaid dataset shows a complete collapse successful tankers travelling done nan strait of Hormuz successful nan first weeks of March. Before nan war, astir a 5th of world lipid and a 3rd of fertilisers were shipped done nan strait.

Notes and methods:

• Data is originated from authorities substance websites and apis connected a regular basis.

• Average petrol, e10 and diesel prices are originated from Motormouth erstwhile a day.

• Some authorities substance information is live, while immoderate is refreshed connected a hold aliases erstwhile stations alteration prices – each displayed dates are erstwhile nan information is retrieved.

• Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and nan Northern Territory explicitly bespeak successful their information whether substance is available.

• Outages for NSW and Tasmania are estimated based connected nan types of fuels each position tends to transportation compared to what is presently available.

• Outages for Western Australia are based connected impermanent outage dates for each station. WA information for 26 to 30 March has been extracted from historic Fuelwatch data, pinch outages estimated successful nan aforesaid measurement arsenic NSW and Tasmania.

• Daily full outage counts are based connected nan sum of each nan information displayed for each day successful nan map.

• Tanker information is originated from Portwatch from nan University of Oxford, utilizing information from nan IMF. Counts are larboard visits by tanker ships, which could beryllium either imports aliases exports.

• Tanker information is originated connected a regular ground but is not updated each day.

This page will be updated and added to arsenic nan substance situation continues. Any important corrections made to this aliases erstwhile versions of nan article will proceed to beryllium footnoted successful statement pinch Guardian editorial policy