Giant refineries from above

Every square is 6 × 6 km at the same scale, so you can compare their real size. Yellow lines show each refinery's boundary as mapped on OpenStreetMap; a dashed ring means a rough guess. Scroll sideways for more; click one to open it.

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Crude Atlas

Where the world's oil is, what kind, and how it moves.

Layers

In the ground

Who makes it

How it moves

Map key

Crude type, by API gravity (tap to filter)

API gravity measures how heavy oil is compared with water. Water scores 10°. Oil above 10° floats; higher means lighter, thinner oil. Dot colour follows the oil's real colour, and a ring around a dot means sour (over 0.5% sulfur).

How it's produced

Proven reserves, billion barrels

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Other symbols

Producer, sized by daily output Refinery, sized by capacity (dashed: cluster or upgrader) Tanker route; each moving dot is about one loaded supertanker at sea (estimated from volume and voyage time) Sanctioned trade ("shadow fleet") Major pipeline Chokepoint, oil passing per day