With climate change growing as a political topic the past few years, more eyes have been turning toward Extractives Data. But before trying to uncover the dark secrets extractives business, follow this skillshare by out Ecuadorian fellow Julio Lopez to make sure you understand some key points about extractives data.
2. Contents
1. Target Audience
2. Demystifying the extractives industry
3. Why do people even care about it?
4. So, what data are we really talking about?
5. Ok, but where can I find it?
6. Do people really use this?
6. Extractives industries
“Industries that extract natural resources (NNRR), such as oil, natural
gas, diamonds, coal, and other minerals from the ground”
NNRR are also relevant in the energy sector: primary sources that are
transformed into useful energy (crude oil to diesel to electricity / natural gas
to electricity)
9. Why is this important?
● Economic factors: Source of revenues in many countries (including
high-income and low-income)
● The environmental and social impacts: Sustainable management of
natural resources.
● Transparency and access to information could improve the quality of
governance
10. Why is this important?
● Highly specialized industry = enhance public understanding of this
topics.
● Opening Extractives Data could foster more innovative education and
capacity building programs.
● There is a big potential for countries to go from macro statistics to real
time local data using open data: project level data.
13. Country level (Macro data)
●Collected at the country level (aggregated variables)
●Originated at government agencies and international databases
●Most common data includes: production of the resource (oil, natural
gas, copper, etc.), exports and imports, revenues and prices.
●It is Primary data (sources)
14. Project level (Micro data)
●Information on projects, blocks, fields, and concessions (usually
geocoded)
●Companies also publish data on projects
●Governments disseminate maps, contracts, and lists of
blocks/fields/concessions
●Contracts are also published (sometimes they do not match with the
projects)
●Normally it is not primary data (lack of official databases)
16. Country wide
● Government agencies dedicated to oil, gas and mining
industries
● Central Banks
● International trade offices
● Environmental agencies
17. International Agencies
● World Bank Development Indicator
● Inter-American Development Bank
● International Monetary Found (IMF)
● IEA (International Energy Agency) Statistics Energy Atlas
● Joint Organisations Data Initiative (IEA, OLADE, APEC,
IEF) – hydrocarbons and natural gas
18. International Civil Society
● Publish What You Pay (PWYP)
● Extractives Industries Transparency Iniciative (EITI)
● Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI)
● Open Oil
● Open Contracts
● Open Corporations
● Global Subsidies Initiative - International Institute for Sustainable
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