Fuel Shortage Tracker Follows Confirmed Shortages in Four Fuel Categories
Why It MattersJet fuel alerts sit alongside diesel, petrol and seasonal heating oil pins, so aviation supply stress is tracked as one strand of a wider fuel system rather than in isolation.
What happened
A Fuel Shortage Tracker run by GEF follows confirmed fuel shortages across four categories: jet fuel, petrol, diesel and heating oil. Its pin set is audited under a two-week confirmation rule. The tracker currently shows 2 critical shortages, defined as confirmed active cases involving fuel rationing, station closures, carrier collapse or a refinery feedstock cut.
It also lists 6 jet fuel alerts covering airports and carriers affected, counting both shortage and watch status; the counter resets when notes age past 7 days. The operational map covers 32 countries, including 12 with whole-country fuel-system breakdowns. No new disruptions emerged or materially escalated in the last seven days.
No heating oil pins are live yet, as those pins are seasonal and the Northern Hemisphere heating season is about to begin. By region, Asia shows 1 active jet fuel alert, 5 diesel watches and 4 petrol watches, plus 2 watches in the LPG column. Europe shows 3 jet fuel watches and 1 watch each for diesel and petrol.
Africa shows 1 active diesel alert and 1 active petrol alert. Latin America shows 1 active jet fuel alert, 1 active diesel alert, 1 petrol watch and 1 active heating oil alert. North America shows 2 jet fuel watches. The tracker also records one watch each in three further columns for a region not identified in the source.
Industry impact & what to watch
The tracker's structure shows how fuel risk reaches aviation: jet fuel is one column among several, and the same refinery feedstock cuts, rationing and breakdowns that hit diesel or petrol can reach airports and carriers. Because the jet fuel count includes watch status as well as shortage, it measures exposure more broadly than confirmed outages alone.
The regional split is uneven. Jet fuel alerts are active in Asia and Latin America, while Europe and North America carry watches only. For flight planning and fuel procurement, a watch is an early signal rather than a confirmed supply failure, and the two-week confirmation rule governs when a pin is verified.
The next point of change is seasonal: heating oil pins are expected to appear as the Northern Hemisphere heating season begins, and the 7-day ageing of jet fuel notes means that count will keep moving as alerts are renewed or drop off.
