PWYP-US Extract-A-Fact Newsletter April 2017 Extract-A-Fact is dedicated to empowering stakeholders to put extractives data to use. Over the next year, we would like to host a series of training webinars aimed at providing the skills you need to use oil, gas and mining data. To help us design our upcoming webinars, please fill out this survey. To participate in our previous…
This post also appears on www.ExtractAFact.org For many us, whom have dedicated years to advocate for the laws that require the disclosure of payments in Canada, the time has come! Reports required to be disclosed in accordance with the Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act (ESTMA) are piling up, and shortly (May 2017) we expect there to be hundreds and hundreds…
Without proper management, oil revenues could instead exacerbate poverty by further perpetuating Uganda’s long history of endemic government corruption.
This post also appears on Extract-A-Fact In our first video training session, we presented a walkthrough of how to organize USEITI data for use in the open source mapping software QGIS. Fortunately, that dataset included geographic identifiers called Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) county codes–five digit codes identifying counties and county equivalents throughout the United States. However, not every dataset…
This post also appears on Extract-A-Fact Always on the lookout for interesting data, I was excited when I recently came across a comprehensive trove of data on offshore production in the Gulf of Mexico from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).The datasets at data.boem.gov include: Oil production by lease, back to 1996 Owners for every active lease, dating to…
This post originally appeared on the 2016 International Open Data Conference blog on October 5, 2016. This post also appears on Extract-A-Fact 2016 is an historic year for transparency advocates and data geeks alike. After fourteen years of campaigning by the global Publish What You Pay (PWYP) coalition, laws requiring oil, gas and mining companies to publicly disclose project-level payments…
August 2016 Finding UK mandatory disclosure reports in one simple step Read on for an easy way to see the full list of mandatory disclosure reports submitted to Companies House Extractives Service in the United Kingdom. Read more… Guest Post – Aleph and beneficial ownership: working up from the ground Financial regulators in many countries already require companies to disclose…
The Importance of Project by Project Disclosure Indonesia’s vast natural resources wealth includes oil, gas, bauxite, silver, and gold. Indonesia is the world’s second largest tin producer, and one of the top five producers of copper and nickel. The extractives sector plays an outsized role in the Indonesian economy: in 2014, oil, gas, and minerals were responsible for a third…
This post originally appeared on www.ExtractAFact.org On June 7, Publish What You Pay – United States held the second training workshop on using extractives data and QGIS, an open source GIS mapping application. This time around, we delved deeper into visualizing data, and explored how to calculate a new data point from imported datasets in QGIS. The first training…
On June 7, Publish What You Pay – United States held the second training workshop on using extractives data and QGIS, an open source GIS mapping application. This time around, we delved deeper into visualizing data, and explored how to calculate a new data point from imported datasets in QGIS. Read more on www.extractafact.org