skillshare - understanding extractives data

Things to understand before diving into Extractives Data PRESENTED BY

Julio Lopez@jalp_ec

Contents1. 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?

Target audience

1

Target Audience● Data Journalists

● NGOs

● Students

● Researchers (civil society, think tanks)

● School of Data Fellows

Demystifying the extractives industry

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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)

Amplified Production chainRequirements + Production chain + Benefits

Why do people even care about it?

2

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

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.

So, what data are we really talking about?

3

Extractives data ecosystem▪ Micro data:

Project level data

▪ Macro data:

Country level

Source: NRGI

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)

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)

Ok, but where can I find it?

4

Country wide● Government agencies dedicated to oil, gas and mining

industries

● Central Banks

● International trade offices

● Environmental agencies

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

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

Development’

Do people really use this?

5

Uses● NGOs, think tanks, consultancy firms and companies and

journalists

● Data visualization as a tool to advocate

● Mapping

● Contracts – Texts

Maps – Mining in Africa

http://www.a-mla.org/index.php

Contracts

http://www.resourcecontracts.org/

Journalism

http://ojo-publico.com/77/los-secretos-detras-de-la-lista-de-comunidades-indigenas-del-peru

Open Data Maps

http://repository.openoil.net/wiki/Main_Page

Resources & Readings 1. http://gijn.org/2014/03/05/covering-the-extractives-industry-big-data-new-

tools-and-journalism/

2. http://www.resourcegovernance.org/news/blog/extractive-industries-data-

ecosystem-database-available-data-tools-natural-resource-govern

3. http://www.evidenceondemand.info/-maximising-the-benefits-of-data-and-

extractives-industries-for-the-poor-understanding-data-demand

4. http://opendatacon.org/reversing-the-resource-curse-with-open-data/

5. https://openoil.net/exploring-oil-data/