Half of America's refining stands on one hurricane coast — a hub that imports and exports at once, where a single storm or one ransomware note reaches gas pumps a thousand miles away.
Crude supply (Permian · OK · LA · Cushing · offshore · imports) — donkeys nod at basin pace
Crude by rail (Canada + Bakken · the marginal mover)
Mississippi barge: crude down (2011–15 spike) · fuel up (steady)
Gas demand circles — colored by state as on the petroleum lens (TX red · OK pink · LA blue · NM gold); amber = shared TX+LA industry
LNG carriers — spherical Moss tanks, loading at the Gulf docks (teal)
Scenarios run on BOTH lenses (URI is the gas showcase); vulnerability rings & vessels stay petroleum — hover Henry Hub for the benchmark story
Crude exports
Tankers underway — crude in (Imports→LOOP), crude out (Corpus), products out (LA)
Barges — Mississippi tows & the GIWW shuttle; hover the water for their stories
Pulsing ring = vulnerability — amber (moderate) to red (critical); in scenarios green rings mark the rescue — surge supply covering a loss
Refined products: pipelines + exports
Texas metros / counties
Louisiana metros / counties
Oklahoma metros / counties
New Mexico metros / counties
El Paso (far-west TX)
Crude throughput & flows modeled from EIA refinery capacity (Jan 2024), Permian/OCS production, and PADD 3 trade. Volumes are gal/yr (b/d × 42 × 365). Pass 1: production side.
Utility-scale PV — West Texas / Permian belt & southern New Mexico (all PV; no concentrating solar out here)
Distributed rooftop PV (Houston · DFW · Austin)
Used now — solar consumed on its own grid (circle size = TWh/yr)
Stored — banked to grid batteries (ERCOT storage is now ~half of new capacity)
Curtailed — sun that arrived but couldn’t be carried; spilled like a full reservoir
Solid floor ring = NM’s RPS-mandated floor / TX’s market-built delivery; dashed ring = curtailed surplus
ERCOT net-load “duck” — belly = midday solar suppressing demand; blue = batteries filling the evening ramp
Dashed empty rings (OK · LA) — basically no solar: Oklahoma is wind, Louisiana’s sky is wrong for it
Solar generation real EIA-923 (utility-scale, all sectors), FY2001–2024 — TX 40.6, NM 4.3 TWh in 2024; FY2000 & FY2025–26 held at the nearest real year; distributed rooftop/small-scale excluded. The three-way split, battery sizing, and the intraday duck are modeled. Four states sit on four grids (ERCOT/WECC/SPP/MISO) — no inter-state flow.
Binary plant — two air-cooled units, a closed teal loop, the earth's heat rising underneath. Lightning Dock is the bloc's only one.
Co-produced well — an oil well already lifting 300°F brine. Solid = today, the heat goes back down. Dashed = tapped, prospective.
Ghost — built, and gone. Pleasant Bayou ran 1979–1983, then was abandoned.
Prospective — resource, not supply. Nothing is built on it.
Heat Water Crude Gas Power
Generation is real EIA-923 (fuel GEO, all sectors) — New Mexico only; TX, LA, OK and AR report none. Brine enthalpy and methane content per the DOE geopressured-geothermal programme and the SMU Geothermal Laboratory. Placement geographic-approximate.
Wind turbine — clusters sized by each state's wind generation
Oklahoma — wind is ~42% of its power (38 TWh) · SPP, the Plains grid
Texas — the giant: ~124 TWh (most of any state) but only ~22% of the Texas mix
New Mexico — ~36% of its power (14 TWh); the eastern High Plains
Night-wind curve — wind peaks overnight & in spring, fades on the summer-afternoon peak
Dashed empty rings (LA · MS) — basically no onshore wind; the Gulf's wind is offshore, not yet built
Wind generation & share EIA-923 2024 (TX 124.3 / OK 38.0 / NM 15.1 TWh/yr). The intraday night-wind curve is modeled. Four states on four grids (ERCOT/SPP/WECC/MISO) — no inter-state flow.
Coal plant — still burning (ember); box sized by capacity, smoke from the stacks
Gone dark on its real closure year — the 2018 TX wave, Dolet Hills ’21, Pirkey ’23
Lignite — mine-mouth, dug in-state (East TX, NW LA); the coal never travels far
PRB coal — railed ~1,000+ mi south from Wyoming’s Powder River Basin
Reactor — a containment dome with the core (an atom) glowing inside; sized by output, the firm baseload
Louisiana — Waterford 3 + River Bend (Entergy): ~16% of LA power, ~92% of its carbon-free power
Texas — Comanche Peak + South Texas Project (4 reactors, >5 GW); STP co-owned by San Antonio & Austin
New Mexico — no reactor: URENCO Eunice enriches the fuel (front end) + WIPP / the cancelled Holtec store
Oklahoma — no reactors (Black Fox cancelled 1982) · SPP
The firm floor — nuclear holds flat (green) while gas & demand swing (blue)
Nuclear output EIA-923 by state (annual, 2001–2024, firm baseload); the per-reactor split within Texas and Louisiana is modeled. Grand Gulf (MS) is off-map; New Mexico has no power reactor.