Mapping the North American Energy Network — With Precision and Insight
If you follow RBN Energy, you know we’re map junkies. The midstream world is built on steel in the ground — pipelines, processing plants, fractionators, terminals, storage — and nothing tells that story like a clear, data-rich map. But behind every RBN map you see in our blogs and market studies is far more than a pretty picture. It’s years of experience, deep market perspective, and a constantly evolving GIS database that our market analysts and GIS developers live in every day.
Decades of Midstream Experience — Baked Into the Data
Our mapping team doesn’t just trace lines and drop points. We’ve spent over a decade tracking the build-out of North America’s energy infrastructure — from the early shale boom to today’s carbon management and decarbonization push. We know what matters: where capacity is constrained, where expansions are happening, and how changes at one hub ripple across the entire system. That perspective shapes every layer we maintain and every insight we deliver.
Market Intelligence Meets Geospatial Accuracy
Plenty of firms can build a shapefile. What sets RBN apart is how tightly our GIS work is woven into our market analysis. Our database doesn’t just know where a pipeline starts and ends — it tracks commodity types, diameters, ownership changes, regulatory status, planned expansions, and interconnectivity. And because our analysts work shoulder-to-shoulder with our GIS developers, each update isn’t just a mechanical refresh — it’s informed by what’s really happening in the market right now.
Quality and Accuracy You Can Trust
Energy infrastructure moves fast — new project announcements, open seasons, reversals, asset sales, and regulatory filings pop up weekly. That’s why our GIS data isn’t static. Our team continually monitors FERC filings, operator announcements, SEC disclosures, and boots-on-the-ground intel to keep the network fresh insuring you’re working with the most current and vetted picture available.
From Macro to Local — Graphics That Tell the Story
Whether it’s a high-level view of Permian flows or last-mile connectivity at Mont Belvieu, Cushing, or the Gulf Coast, our maps and data are built to answer real commercial questions. We tailor them for executive briefings, investor decks, market studies, or detailed engineering analysis. We can go wide — think NGL production by basin and takeaway corridors — or zoom all the way in — plant-by-plant fractionation capacity with proprietary build-out timelines.
Your Map. Your Way.
Whether it’s creating a custom, highly stylized map for an executive-level presentation or delivering raw GIS data of assets in a critical market so your team can get a clear “lay of the land,” RBN Energy’s Custom GIS Services can deliver. We love maps — and we love helping our clients make sense of the ever-shifting North American energy infrastructure network.
