Track Australia’s fuel prices, service station outages and shipments in charts | Petrol prices

Hundreds of service stations across Australia have been emptied, fuel prices have increased and oil shipments have been cancelled.

Australia struggles with a fuel crisis as Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz continues to sting. The federal government released fuel reserves, reduced fuel excise taxes, and implemented a national fuel security plan.

While we know there are disruptions and price increases, it can be difficult to get the full picture of what’s going on, in part because thousands of independent businesses and different governments are involved. We’ve compiled the most up-to-date data on prices, disruptions and oil tanker deliveries.

When we look at the averages for gasoline and diesel across Australia, we can see how much prices have increased since the start of the US and Israel’s war against Iran in late February.

Even within a relatively small area there can be huge differences in price and availability. Fuel cuts are not static; Stations may run out and regain stock as governments and companies race to fill gaps in supply chains and release more fuel.

The map below shows the number of fuel outages across Australia, day by day. For a macro view, you can hover over stations and click on the dates for which data is available.

Since we started collecting data on March 27, you can see a spike in outages in New South Wales and Victoria on March 30 and 31.

The next chart shows the total number of stations where at least one type of fuel is available each day. This is an estimate and may be an undercount given the different time scales over which each state reports data.

At least six fuel shipments to Australia have already been canceled or delayed, and experts say more delays or cancellations are likely.

The next chart shows the total number of “port calls” or stops made at Australian ports by tankers delivering fuel oil and crude oil that is refined to make fuel.

The data does not distinguish between imports and exports but shows a slight decrease in the number of tankers in February and March compared to the last six years.

The same data set shows a complete collapse of tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz in the first weeks of March. Before the war, one fifth of the world’s oil and one third of the fertilizer were transported through the strait.

Notes and methods:

• Data is obtained daily from government fuel websites and APIs.

• Average petrol, e10 and diesel prices are obtained from Motormouth once a day.

• While some of the government’s fuel data is live, some is refreshed when there is a delay or when stations change prices; All dates displayed are the dates the data was collected.

• Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and the Northern Territory clearly state whether fuel is available in their data.

• Outages in NSW and Tasmania are predicted based on the types of fuel each station tends to carry compared to what is currently available.

• Outages in Western Australia are based on each station’s provisional outage dates. WA data for March 26-30 was obtained from: historical Fuelwatch dataOutages are forecast the same as NSW and Tasmania.

• Total daily outage numbers are based on the sum of all data displayed for each date on the map.

• Tanker data taken from: portwatch from the University of Oxford using data from the IMF. Counts are port visits by tanker ships that may be imports or exports.

• Tanker data is received daily but is not updated every day.

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